On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Graham Percival
<gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:51:03PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of
>> Code 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating?
>> Most importantly: more contributors
>> surely: new code
>> also: spreading news about LilyPond, getting programmers interested
>> additionally: some money for mentors to enable them spending more
>> time on LilyPond (?)
>
> The money goes to the project, not to individual mentors. Could
> you check their FAQ to see if there's any "we're a small project
> with no independent legal body to take the $500; what happens to
> that money?" question?
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think FSF/GNU project can and has acted as organization in the past.
I guess so. GSoC FAQ says this:
"5. What tax related documentation is required from mentoring organizations?
We will need the following tax related documentation from mentoring
organizations or umbrella organizations:
For organizations based in the United States, we will need a
completed IRS form W9.
For organizations based outside the United States, we will need a
completed IRS form W8-BEN."
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?
>> If your organization has not previously participated in Google Summer
>> of Code, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
>> We didn't apply. (did we?)
>
> We did not.
>
>> What is the URL for your Ideas page?
>> TODO. If you have any more ideas, please post them in this
>> thread:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-02/msg00340.html
>
> 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.
>> Who will be your backup organization administrator?
>> Carl? (Graham would be the main one?)
>
> 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.
>> If they can't be reached, we ask the mentor (or someone else if
>> available) to get the work to a state when it can be used, at least
>> partly.
>
> -1. Mentors have enough work; none of the work from students
> should be critical, so if they abandon it, we'll just keep their
> git branch around and/or put the patch in the tracker as
> Patch-abandoned.
ok
>> Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to
>> vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here.
>> No
>
> Han-Wen.
ok
>> Also, from what i understand, we should have mentors declared for each
>> project in our Ideas List (i.e. mentoring GSoC student is a personal
>> responsibility). Who is interested in being a mentor? You get $500
>> for this.
>
> No you don't. $500 goes to the project, not the mentor.
True, but i thought we (LilyPond, the project) were intending to give
them to mentors?
thanks,
Janek
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