On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Buddha Buck <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:16 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:
> I figured after the at best luke-warm reception in January that there wasn't 
> enough interest to follow up. It's pretty late to do a web page.  GSoC isn't 
> going to entertain an org with only one proposal and available mentor. If 
> someone's really interested I suggest that they make a proposal to Gnome.
> 
> In my experience, this is not the case (or doesn't need to be the case).  
> I've worked with GSoC for a number of years as a mentor for a small org, and 
> there are ways to make it work.  For one thing, while it's true that Google 
> isn't going to accept GnuCash as an organization, there are many 
> organizations that act as "umbrella" organizations, handling the Google 
> point-of-contact and money handling for a number of small organizations.  
> Most of the GSoC organizations which get the largest number of students are 
> actually umbrellas.  GnuCash, with one mentor, would be perfect to work with 
> an umbrella like that.  
> 
> It may be too late to consider it this year, but for the future it might be 
> worth looking into.

We worked with Gnome as an umbrella last year, which is why I suggested 
contacting them this year.

Regards,
John Ralls

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