On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote:
> I second the motion and approve it. > I hope we all work together to find a way to compromise, but in any case my opinion is already well-known, as stated a month ago: Mentors/tutors/teachers are insufficiently recognized, just like the Mentoring organization is insufficiently recognized. My personal belief is that *both* need to be recognized far more, likely starting equally with a 50/50 split or some such/similar distribution of funds, inspired by Lionel Laske's thoughtful articulation of the many social infrastructure / accounting infrastructure / mentoring infrastructure / constructionist infrastructure investments OLPC France has very successfully achieved. Among many other organizational infrastructures (technology and non-technology community tools) backstopping the lives of volunteer-community-hackers-of-all-kind increasingly far easier, as we can do too! Underlying a much stronger future for all~ Tony > > > On 06/04/2016 03:02 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > > We did not have time to take action on two motions at yesterday's meeting. > Please review the motion below. If an oversight board seconds the motion, > then we can bring it up for a vote by email. > > regards. > > -walter > > > Motion regarding GSoC mentoring stipends > > Motion: Whereas it is the general policy of Sugar Labs to retain all GSoC > mentoring stipends in the General Fund, if a mentor asks a GSoC Admin (for > example in 2016, Walter or Lionel) to pay a stipend to a mentor, their > share of the stipend amount will be disbursed without further motions to > approve the spending. The share is calculated from the total awarded for > the GSoC slot by Google, minus 10% (as all Sugar Labs income is donated to > Software Freedom Conservancy for organisational services), minus 5% > (retained for Sugar Labs General Funds), divided by the number of mentors > for the project. For example, in a year with 6 slots and 10 mentors at > $500, the total revenue is $3,000; 10% for Conservancy is $300 and 5% for > Sugar Labs is $150, leaving a total of $2,550 or $255 per mentor. > > ---- > > Note that an earlier version of this motion failed: > > Failed Motion > > Motion: To allow the mentors participating in Google Summer of Code to > disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see fit. > > Further discussion of this motion can be found beginning at [1]. > > [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2016-May/018130.html > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing > listSugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.orghttp://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- > <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> > <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ > <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel>http://unleashkids.org ! >
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