Ted Gould wrote on the 23th of November: > +1, I don't see any reason not to give Google a loan, they seem like > they might be reliable. I haven't heard from anyone else on this, and Ted is opining only on the issue of fronting the money for Google, not whether or not we should pay mentors the funds, although I suppose he's implicitly endorsing that idea. Note that I wrote back on the 21st of November: >>> It is indeed the project's leadership discretion about sending funds >>> out to the mentors. From Google's perspective, the mentor payments >>> are a donation to the project. That said, I think it's a good idea >>> for the project to use the money to pay the mentor, but note that's >>> not because Google wants it to be so. I think there is some >>> confusion about this namong mentors: there seems to be a belief >>> among mentors that the money is theirs to keep in any event, when in >>> fact it belongs to the project, who then decides (quite correctly, >>> IMO) to pay the mentor the funds. It's a subtle distinction that I >>> think is worth bringing up again so that expectations are set >>> correctly. Can you all confirm that you want the Inkscape Project to give the mentors the option to receive $500/each for mentoring in the SoC in 2011?