[TOS] POSSE alumni grants update

[Mel Chua]

Keeping finances transparent and giving folks a behind-the-scenes 
glimpse of operations here...

Grant's plane ticket has been gotten, leaving $1323.41 remaining in his 
SIGCSE travel grant for hotel rooms and such.

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Budget#POSSE_alumni_grants has 
been updated.

Antonio, you've got a grant request in the queue, I know... will be 
looking at that during next week's finance sweep.

This is the last month in Red Hat's 2010 fiscal year, so our new budget 
starts in March, and we'll need to figure out what we want to do with 
grants then - it's taken a heck of a lot more time to manage this than 
predicted, and I need either (1) a better workflow, (2) someone else to 
do this, or (3) not to do it any more at all.

We haven't really seen much POSSE alumni grant activity, honestly. Do 
people not know about it? Is it not useful? Managing it properly sucks 
up a substantial amount of my time (a few hours every week) and I'm not 
sure if that time (and $) could be better spent elsewhere (for instance, 
travel scholarships to POSSE, etc).

Thoughts? Are alumni grants actually a useful thing to do?

--Mel