Re: GSoC - continue: answer to Google's question

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:39:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with IRS forms, but i guess the "umbrella
>> organizations" part concerns us and FSF/GNU.
>> Shall i contact FSF or maybe someone who is more widely recognized in
>> GNU will do this?
>
> Maybe wait 12 hours in case somebody else wants to do it, then try
> to contact the FSF yourself.  Applications start tomorrow and only
> run for a bit over a week,

??
According to 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline
applications start on Monday, Feb 27 and end on March 9.

>> > I hate the wiki, but I guess that might be a good place to put the
>> > ideas page.  The wiki page should be protected, and give a link to
>> > the issue tracker as well.
>>
>> Why not have it as a part of our website?  I mean, a completely
>> separate page on lilypond.org.  I don't think it needs to be
>> eye-candy.
>
> hmm... ok.  Add it to Community, between Development and Authors,
> but with the same color as Development.  Patch goes on rietveld as
> usual.

Will do.

>> > Hmm.  What's involved for the organization administor?
>>
>> see here: 
>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#org_admin_role
>> seems quite like the stuff you're doing.
>
> I agree; I can do that, provided you get the application together.

ok

>> > $500 goes to the project, not the mentor.
>>
>> True, but i thought we (LilyPond, the project) were intending to give
>> them to mentors?
>
> I don't think so.  And if we have the FSF handle the tax side of
> things, I think they get the money.  They might want to keep it --
> at the very least, if we wanted to use that money, I think we'd
> need to submit a budget or expense claim or something.

I don't quite get it why we would want to do so. but...

> I figure that the important thing in GSoC is having paid
> student(s) working on lilypond, so I don't mind if the FSF just
> keeps all the money.  I mean, I don't think it's worth
> jeopardising the possibility of having paid student(s) by fussing
> over that $500.

...i won't be a mentor, so my opinion doesn't matter that much.

cheers,
Janek