[Board] New MOUs proposed...

[Michael P. Gerlek]

The timing at this point is open..  I can down the $12K deposit I have in
hand whenever I want to, the risk is just that the space may no longer be
available.

The balance ($12K) would be due at the time of the event (Feb 2012).

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tmitchell at osgeo.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 11:21 AM
> To: Frank Warmerdam
> Cc: mpg at flaxen.com; OSGeo-Board List
> Subject: Re: [Board] New MOUs proposed...
> 
> I was wondering about the cash flow timing - "when" as well as the "how
> much".  E.g. do we need to guarantee the deposit, plus the final bill and
> when would that be, etc.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> On 2011-09-02, at 11:16 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> > 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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