> Actually, there are a couple of organisations that are willing to act as > a proxy for the payments to organisations that are unable to deal with > the legalities imposed by the US IRS - it is not just foreigners that > have issues some projects inside the US just don't have the ability to > deal with the tax monster. I cannot recall which ones they > are at the moment, if asked they will take the money from google and > hand it on. Just ask on the GSoC mentors mailing list.
I know of no such mailing list, and certainly Google didn't put me on to it when I had problems with their contract. If you guys want this so freaking badly wake up.. I'm right here. I'm willing to write the project proposals working with the other developers, and I'm willing to supervise and mentor a worthy few students. I'm not willing to put myself, or the OpenBSD foundation, in a nasty legal situation over this. If some proxy organization will deal with the damn google contract, then they need to talk to me. You guys want it, put people in touch with me.
