On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:39:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: > 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?
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, and it might take time to get the paperwork to/from the FSF. > > 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. > >> 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. I agree; I can do that, provided you get the application together. > >> 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? 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 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. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
