On Wednesday 20 April 2011 12:33:24 Thomas Schwinge wrote: > (I'm assuming you're somewhat familiar with the Google Summer of Code; if > not please say so.) For the GSoC, we got more good applications than we > can accept (which is obviously limited by Google). My idea is that we > could perhaps use the money Tanguy is offering for paying another GSoC > project on our own? It's less than what Google would be paying (so we > may need to adjust what we expect from the student), but it's still more > than getting nothing -- so, either a student is interested in this deal, > or not. What do you think?
That sounds like a great idea! > We'd only need to figure out a method to do this in a legally/fiscally > clean fashion. Maybe FSFE can help there. IIRC FSF only accepts general donations to GNU. > Perhaps some of the general bounty systems -- ``code something, get > some money for it'' -- could be used. > > Does anyone have any experience with this? Sadly not, but it sounds like a good idea, too, especially if there are more people who might want to donate, too. Maybe we could ask the trisquel people how they do their funding: → http://trisquel.info/en/tasks The donations to them are only cheap for spanish people, though. Ideally we should have bank accounts in all major countries… I could ask my wife (worked in a bank before starting her parental break) if we could get one for germany, but can’t promise anything - I don’t know enough about the legal issues. Best wishes, Arne
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