Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

Thank you very much for your answer, Kat.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:12:15PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> interns attending events in 2014 were sponsored within allocated
> travel budgets out of general funds or by sponsors for that event.

For the budget allocated for travel, would it be a lower bugdet if
interns are less sponsorized? or sponsorized to go to a nearer
conference?

> GNOME put $10000 towards interns in the 2013 financial year and $5000
> in the 2014 financial year. That is one intern per OPW round except
> summer 2014 which was completely covered by external sponsors. There
> is currently a vote happening on the board mailing list with regards
> to sponsoring an intern for winter 2014/2015, which will come to USD
> 6000.00 if it passes. It is hoped that external sponsors can be found
> to cover all GNOME interns again.

Was it decided into closed doors?

It seems that many Gnomers find OPW worthwhile, I don't question that
(or many don't want to speak up because it's a touchy subject, or many
don't have a strong opinion). Google is one of the biggest companies,
and doesn't care about spending a few millions for the GSoC for having a
good image wrt open source community (yes I know, [citation needed]).
But for the Gnome Foundation, is it the same? By spending $15k, do the
Foundation sacrify on other areas?

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Sébastien