Re: [boost] [SoC] Payment handling?
Boost could refuse payment, or request that the payment be donated in Boost's name to some university. Just a thought.
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Fernando Cacciola Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:54 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] [SoC] Payment handling?
I know this is a controversial question, but is one that needs to be addressed I'm afraid...
IIUC, the mentoring organization for Google's Summer of Code 2006, Boost in our case, will get paid 500 bucks per mentored student. How will that be administered? We have no precedent for anything like that AFAICT
Of course the basic idea would be that the _specific_ actual mentor within boost gets the money, but will such an individual be properly identifiied? What if there is more than one per student? Or that will just not be allowed in order to simplify this matter?
How will Google address the recipient of such a payment? Via boost-consulting and Dave does the final dispatch?
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Matt Doyle wrote:
Boost could refuse payment,
Donating seems better to me.
or request that the payment be donated in Boost's name to some university.
My reading of the FAQ indicates that this isn't possible directly. Someone within boost would have to do that. Also, how do we choose the university? The mentors do that? Fernando Cacciola
On 4/25/06, Fernando Cacciola <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com> wrote:
Matt Doyle wrote:
Boost could refuse payment,
Donating seems better to me.
IMO, it should go to the mentor. As is the intent of google. [snipped] -- Felipe Magno de Almeida
Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
On 4/25/06, Fernando Cacciola <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com> wrote:
Matt Doyle wrote:
Boost could refuse payment,
Donating seems better to me.
IMO, it should go to the mentor. As is the intent of google.
Agreed. The mentor puts some extra effort into this and the money is well-deserved. -Thorsten
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
On 4/25/06, Fernando Cacciola <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com> wrote:
Matt Doyle wrote:
Boost could refuse payment,
Donating seems better to me.
IMO, it should go to the mentor. As is the intent of google.
Agreed. The mentor puts some extra effort into this and the money is well-deserved.
Me too.. this is what I initally said. I was comparing donating to letting Google keep it. Still, deciding what's the best to do is half the issue here. How to do is is also important, specially because of the responsability put on those willing to administer the payments. As I said, unless I got it wrong, Google will pay "Boost", not each individual mentor. Fernando Cacciola
"Fernando Cacciola" <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e2lr0j$c1i$1@sea.gmane.org...
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
On 4/25/06, Fernando Cacciola <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com> wrote:
Matt Doyle wrote:
Boost could refuse payment,
Donating seems better to me.
IMO, it should go to the mentor. As is the intent of google.
Agreed. The mentor puts some extra effort into this and the money is well-deserved.
Me too.. this is what I initally said. I was comparing donating to letting Google keep it.
Still, deciding what's the best to do is half the issue here. How to do is is also important, specially because of the responsability put on those willing to administer the payments. As I said, unless I got it wrong, Google will pay "Boost", not each individual mentor.
Given that the amounts of money are relatively small and non-recurring, I would hope we can just pass them through Boost Consulting or some other volunteer. But whoever does it needs to check with their accountant to make sure such a pass-through would not be taxed. Another alternative is to find an existing non-profit willing to do the pass through. --Beman
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:58:17 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote
Given that the amounts of money are relatively small and non- recurring, I would hope we can just pass them through Boost Consulting or some other volunteer. But whoever does it needs to check with their accountant to make sure such a pass-through would not be taxed.
Another alternative is to find an existing non-profit willing to do the pass through.
My read of the information was that the money goes to the mentor and that the mentor is responsible for handling taxes etc. We did discuss this on the moderator list a bit. If I wind up being a mentor, I'd personally want to donate the extra money to the student. After all, they will be doing the hard work. Also, if you do the math on the time period and the student pay, it really isn't much money. Anyway, if we really end up needing organizations/companies to do handle the accounting, my company can do it. I'd would be surprised if Dave A. and Boost consulting wasn't willing to help as well. But first I think we need to finish writing up some projects, etc... Jeff
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