Re: Google Summer of Code, LilyPond and GNU

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:48:28PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:56 +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
> >>
> >> Hmm.  My instinct would be to try it separately, anyway.  We're
> >> not the size of gcc or gnome, but we're not trivial: [...]
> >
> > Sure, you can always try. And if you don't make it you are welcome back
> > to the GNU umbrella =]
> 
> Okay, so i understand that we try applying individually.  If on March
> 16 we won't be listed in accepted projects, we'll contact GNU and
> they'll add us to their umbrella, listing our projects on their Ideas
> List and so on.

Hmm, I'm not certain that's quite what he meant, but ok.

> I will make a patch adding GSoC Ideas List to our webpage - Graham,
> will you recompile it?

No.  Put the patch on rietveld, and once people have commented, it
gets pushed to staging.

> Graham, i understand that you'll be our project administrator.  When
> Ideas List will be up, you'll have to register at
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 and fill
> our application (it consists of answering the 16 questions - for which
> we already have answers - and agreeing to admin agreement).

What happens about the tax form?  I'm not signing any legal
document unless I'm certain it's the right thing.  Is GNU
submitting that "foreign income" thing for us ? ... although I
suppose that GNU is an American organization, so they'd file a
different tax form?

- Graham