[Board] Contracting Agreement

[Dave McIlhagga]

If you have it available -- that would probably be the best starting point.

Dave

Gary Lang wrote:
> Mine was not from Autodesk, but from a 10 person consultancy, BTW...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave McIlhagga (External)
> To: Gary Lang
> Cc: Frank Warmerdam (External); board at lists.osgeo.org 
> <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Sun Jan 14 08:01:15 2007
> Subject: Re: [Board] Contracting Agreement
> 
> I'll check if we have a boiler plate we can share. Given our company
> size, we would probably provide a degree of legalese closer to OSGeo's
> needs than Autodesk. :)
> 
> Although a U.S. example would probably be better since we are a Delaware
> Corporation.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> Gary Lang wrote:
>  > Let me dig into my archives. The ones I've used recently come from a
>  > large corporation that are more, well, *elaborate* than we probably need
>  > for OSGeo ;-) Dig into yours and we can compare notes.
>  >
>  > I had one developed for my consultancy years ago that was designed to be
>  > acceptable to large (10,000+) and small (1) firms alike, to avoid back
>  > and forth with legal departments which of course would cost me too much
>  > money. Almost every large company signed it after reviewing it, as is.
>  > And of course, the small ones did right away.
>  >
>  > Gary
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From:   Frank Warmerdam (External)
>  > Sent:   Sat 1/13/2007 3:00 PM
>  > To:     Gary Lang
>  > Cc:     board at lists.osgeo.org
>  > Subject:        Re: [Board] Contracting Agreement
>  >
>  > Gary Lang wrote:
>  >  > Frank,
>  >  >
>  >  > We're a corporation with a legal structure that makes the board liable
>  >  > for agreements. So a contract is required. Let's get one done and
>  >  > establish a process for doing this quickly.
>  >
>  > Gary,
>  >
>  > OK.  So how do we proceed on this?  Will you arrange a template I can
>  > use?  Or should I try to work one up from past contracts I've been party
>  > to?
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  > --
>  > 
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