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> On 29 March 2010 21:24, Frederik Ramm <<a ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br>> > As far as I know, the monetary return of GSoC for OSM is negligible. The<br>> > students get the bulk of the money, and the only incentive for OSM is the<br>> > hope of something valuable for the project being created by them.<br>> <br>> How is this any different than using money donated to OSM-F to do<br>> similar work, and then extending that to do say administrative tasks<br>> for the foundation itself?<br>> <br>> As you said it's a slippery slope, but OSM is already on it...<br><br>I'm not sure how this came up (reading through the thread now)<br>but in the one case I'm aware of when OSMF was funded for administrative<br>tasks, it was through the SOTM scholarship program, and it was explicitly<br>budgeted. As for general OSMF admin tasks (like
accounting), presently this is entirely<br>volunteer, though growing in complexity and time commitment constantly,<br>and IMO would be wise to engage professionals in such in the long term.<br>That would be quite explicitly indicated in any budget.<br><br>Best<br>-Mikel<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a></span><br></div></div>
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