[Board] Contributor agreements -- many missing?

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Sep 16 10:05:56 PDT 2013


Hmm I don't know where they live either.  (I would love to see them
checked into SVN in a new folder at http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/board/)

-jeff




On 2013-09-16 1:59 PM, Michael Gerlek wrote:
> Last week I completed an audit of the contributor agreements we have, and
> as I'd long suspected there are significant gaps.
> 
> I have both paper and individual PDFs for 75 documents. I have numbered
> all the documents for tracking and have them recorded in a spreadsheet
> (much easier to maintain and edit than a wiki table!).
> 
> The docs live on Dropbox, under /projects/Contribution_Agreements.
> 
> Tyler used to maintain a page
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contributor_Agreements_Received) in which he
> listed all the forms he had received. However, I do not have either paper
> or electronic copies of many of his entries (including about 40 for
> MapGuide, 5 for GeoTools, and 5 for FDO).
> 
> ** Does anyone have any idea where these documents might be? **
> 
> (Also, a large number of the documents we've received were never signed by
> OSGeo. These contributor agreements are unilateral agreements, so I'm not
> sure our signature is necessary, but I raise the issue just in case.)
> 
> -mpg
> 
> 



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