[OSGeo-Board] Legal help from OSGeo?

[Porter Merriman]

Hi all!

Nice to (virtually) meet you...    I'm looking forward to working with
you.

My contact info is below.

Porter

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E. Porter Merriman  
Corporate Counsel
111 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, CA 94903
Direct +1-415-507-6834  |  Fax +1-415-507-6128  
Porter.Merriman at Autodesk.com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lang 
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:22 PM
To: Chris Holmes; OSGeo-Board; Porter Merriman
Cc: Tyler Mitchell (External)
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Board] Legal help from OSGeo?

We do have a replacement. Board, meet Porter Merriman. Porter, meet the
OSGeo board.

Porter, can you spare some cycles here? 

Thanks,

Gary 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:59 PM
To: OSGeo-Board
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] Legal help from OSGeo?

Hey, what's the status with legal help from OSGeo?

My GeoTools guys have a number of questions that they want a lawyer to
sound in on.  Rich is great, but he's volunteer only these days.

One of the 'benefits' we've talked about for projects is legal advice
and protection.  Can we put funding towards getting a lawyer's time?  Or
is there an autodesk person who's taking over Rich's role?  Could we get
some in-kind time from autodesk's in house lawyers?  Or are there some
other options?  This seems to be a gating issue for GeoTools to move out
of incubation...  I think it's just clarification on what we've got
written already, but it'd be nice to have an official voice weigh in.

Chris

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Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
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