Re: Fwd: GSoC 2012: Mentor application?

[Daniel Thomas]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:42 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> > address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> 
> >>    > This is a bit misleading, especially on this list. Orgs get paid,
> >>    > not mentors. Some orgs redistribute this money to the mentors; GNU
> >>    > hasn't generally done this.
> >>    That is sad :( For all their hard work mentors deserve to be rewarded.
> >>    Oh, well, i stand corrected then.
> >> The reward is computer user freedom.
> > absolutely right, but on the other hand there is some money and who
> > deserves it more than who is doing the real job?  As this money is
> > supposed to support the development of Free Software/Open Source
> > software, I don't see a better way to use this money than give it, at
> > least partly, to whom is directly involved with it.  Differently than
> > sporadic contributions, a mentor has responsibilities with the student
> > and has to find some time for it.
> 
> I pretty much agree. Even if no money go to the mentor there should be
> something that counts as thank you gesture.

We get t-shirts. They are good t-shirts. Also the "Yey someone did some
work on my project and now it is better!".

Daniel