Great work, Steven!
Best,
Vasile
On 9/10/15 9:00 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
Board
For clarification, I have analysed the OSGeo/FOSS4G agreements for the
last few years at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1awsek1VhXSpgca4tjT_VC_70eRYybwjZVXsY4YawJ7c/edit?usp=sharing
In most years OSGeo has signed an agreement with the PCO and in 2013
with the venue directly. As far as i can see none of these agreements
had any cap on the liabilities of OSGeo if something went badly wrong,
typically a late cancellation could expose a liability of 70-80% of costs.
I do not know whether the OSGeo board was fully aware of the commitments
is was making in each year that it signed such an agreement?
The proposed agreement limited OSGeo liability to €100k, this is less of
a risk than in previous years.
I suggest the conference committee makes the prospective bidders for
FOSS4G 2017 aware of the uncertainty regarding financial guarantees from
OSGeo so that they can factor this risk into their proposals.
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Steven
On 10 Sep 2015, at 18:44, board-requ...@lists.osgeo.org
<mailto:board-requ...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
*From:*Bart van den Eijnden <bart...@osgis.nl <mailto:bart...@osgis.nl>>
*Subject:**Re: [Board] Motion: 2016 Financial Agreement*
*Date:*10 September 2015 18:14:15 BST
*To:*michael.smith.e...@gmail.com <mailto:michael.smith.e...@gmail.com>
*Cc:*"bo...@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org>"
<bo...@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:bo...@lists.osgeo.org>>
My vote is +1 on this.
But to be honest I’m very disappointed that we are not more supportive
of the LOC.
If I was the 2016 LOC, I would not wait for OSGeo and go my own way
with an insurance and also not giving back substantial funds to OSGeo.
Best regards,
Bart
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