<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Cyrille Berger wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">In fact, for joining SoC you need to have an organization which is registered<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to a governement (associations, ev, fundation, even company). The best would<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be to have freedesktop to register to SoC, there weren't registered last<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">year, mostly because, I don't think freedesktop is backed up by such an<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">organization :( And having them throught KDE ev would drown them :(</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I do not believe this is, or at least was, an exact requirement.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I know that for the past two SoC's Inkscape has participated, but yet had no formal organization until well after those.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, having more than a single person is very good.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Their FAQ says:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60281&topic=10730">http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60281&topic=10730</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What are the eligibility requirements for mentoring organizations?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mentor organizations must be organizations or individuals running an active and viable open source or free software project whose applications are approved by Google's Open Source Program Office. Organizations based in Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate. Please see our Terms of Service for additional stipulations and requirements.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV>So even individuals could be the "mentoring organization". That said, I believe that having more than one person around can help, and that having more participation in a "community" is very good. Also, the role of a mentoring organization has several aspects that are easier when there are people to share the work and/or guidance.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60291&topic=10732">http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60291&topic=10732</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>