[Board] New MOUs proposed...

[Michael P. Gerlek]

OK, understood -- we'll discuss in Denver, thanks.

(and yes, the upper limit was "only" $12K)

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 11:16 AM
> To: mpg at flaxen.com
> Cc: Tyler Mitchell; OSGeo-Board List
> Subject: Re: [Board] New MOUs proposed...
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com>
> wrote:
> > I see from the logs that the IslandWood sprint funding was voted down,
> > but it looks like there were multiple possible reasons -- too hard on
> > OSGeo budget, fear of setting precedent, ..?
> >
> > These are reasonable concerns, certainly, but it's not clear to me if
> > the board is looking for more input for me still for possible
> > reconsideration at a future meeting, or if the issue is now completely
> closed and done with.
> > I'm on a tight timeline here if this is to happen, so please let me
> > know if any further action is needed on my part.
> 
> Michael,
> 
> From my perspective, I want to do a financial review of our current
position
> first.  If we have adequate reserves I have no problem providing the
> guarantee.  One other thing is that we would need to know an upper bound
> on the financial liability.  The motion that was raised was to cover up to
$12K
> but that struck me as inadequate as I had the impression the potential
> liability was more like $20K (even though that is very unlikely).
> 
> My "-1" does not mean that I am against supporting the code sprint, only
that
> I didn't feel the current motion was adequate and that I wanted a better
idea
> of our financial position before committing.
> 
> My hope is that we can settle this at the F2F in Denver in two weeks.
> 
> Best regards,
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