# Re: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report (2024)

3 messages from 2024-09-18 to 2024-09-18. Participants: Christian Couder, Taylor Blau.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/62134

## Christian Couder, 2024-09-18 13:07

Subject: Re: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report (2024)
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

> Last year we spent money ($675.96 USD) sponsoring Christian Couder to
> attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024 Mentor Summit. According to
> my mails, Karthik Nayak also attended, but I haven't seen their expenses
> reflected in Conservancy's bookkeeping, so they may have not yet
> submitted their expenses for reimbursement.

Karthik didn't attend the GSoC Mentor Summit last year, but will
attend this year (October 4 to 6). Hariom Verma wanted to attend last
year but unfortunately he couldn't get a visa.

Also please note that the money spent to attend it is more than
covered by Google, as Google gives $500 for each mentored contributor
and also gives a generous amount for the mentors to travel to the
Mentor Summit ($1200 for me last year). It looks like those amounts
are not in the same accounting bucket though.

Anyway thanks for your great work on this report!

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## Taylor Blau, 2024-09-18 13:16

Subject: Re: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report (2024)
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 03:07:54PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>
> > Last year we spent money ($675.96 USD) sponsoring Christian Couder to
> > attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024 Mentor Summit. According to
> > my mails, Karthik Nayak also attended, but I haven't seen their expenses
> > reflected in Conservancy's bookkeeping, so they may have not yet
> > submitted their expenses for reimbursement.
>
> Karthik didn't attend the GSoC Mentor Summit last year, but will
> attend this year (October 4 to 6). Hariom Verma wanted to attend last
> year but unfortunately he couldn't get a visa.

Got it!

> Also please note that the money spent to attend it is more than
> covered by Google, as Google gives $500 for each mentored contributor
> and also gives a generous amount for the mentors to travel to the
> Mentor Summit ($1200 for me last year). It looks like those amounts
> are not in the same accounting bucket though.

I imagine that they have either not sent that money to us yet or
Conservnacy hasn't recorded it quite yet.

> Anyway thanks for your great work on this report!

Apologies for this one not making it to the list, but I was able to send
a copy via a link to a Gist containing the contents of the report here:

    https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZurR5HGfhktqZPa+@nand.local/T/#u

Thanks,
Taylor

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## Christian Couder, 2024-09-18 13:23

Subject: Re: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report (2024)
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1Aqn33TsRNj94T+iwDsMHPkgH9RyvYhzCR3_YeXkzdHA@mail.gmail.com>
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In-Reply-To: <ZurSnxWRByacTUCW@nand.local>

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On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 3:16 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 03:07:54PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Last year we spent money ($675.96 USD) sponsoring Christian Couder to
> > > attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024 Mentor Summit. According to
> > > my mails, Karthik Nayak also attended, but I haven't seen their expenses
> > > reflected in Conservancy's bookkeeping, so they may have not yet
> > > submitted their expenses for reimbursement.
> >
> > Karthik didn't attend the GSoC Mentor Summit last year, but will
> > attend this year (October 4 to 6). Hariom Verma wanted to attend last
> > year but unfortunately he couldn't get a visa.
>
> Got it!
>
> > Also please note that the money spent to attend it is more than
> > covered by Google, as Google gives $500 for each mentored contributor
> > and also gives a generous amount for the mentors to travel to the
> > Mentor Summit ($1200 for me last year). It looks like those amounts
> > are not in the same accounting bucket though.
>
> I imagine that they have either not sent that money to us yet or
> Conservnacy hasn't recorded it quite yet.

You mean that it hasn't been recorded for this year or last year or both?

On Nov 18 last year, the Conservancy told us the following:

"Note that at present we have received a lump-sum ACH from Google for
all our GSoC projects, and are still awaiting a per-project breakdown
of the funds from them. Assuming all is in order, the travel funds
from Google should be $1200 per traveler."

So I don't know when or if Google eventually sent them a per-project
breakdown of the funds. Maybe we could ask the Conservancy if they
eventually did send it?

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