Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Merge Contributors Summit, April 8th, Paris

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2015, 17:03 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I had more in mind the people who mentored GSoC students (and this way
> helped the Git project get some money)...

Just on this part, because I want to avoid giving a wrong impression to discourage potential mentors to participate and help GSoC.

The Git project does not require mentors to donate their mentorship stipend to the project. IIRC The pool started because the stipend was a small amount of money ($500 or so) that still counted as income to whoever is getting, and all mentors found it not worth their time having to deal with the hassle individually. That is how our association with Software Freedom Conservancy started: have a legal entity hold such money as a non-profit.

If a mentor wants to keep his mentorship stipend, the Git project (the legal entity) is perfectly OK with that.

Of course, I am hoping that all the mentors are doing GSoC not for money but out of love of our software and our community, but the above sounded as if you are saying that the past mentors were robbed by the project and are entitled to crawl their money back. I just wanted to make sure that mentors will not be robbed (and the past ones weren't robbed) against their will.