[Board] Motion: 2016 Financial Agreement

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Steven, this is a good document to share with everyone.

Let's take Maxi's thorough response and concerns positively and continue 
to work with the OSGeo Conference Committee to make 2016 another great 
event.  I can only speak for myself that I will help the new board to 
get the guarantee in place.

-jeff



On 2015-09-10 3:00 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Board
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> For clarification, I have analysed the OSGeo/FOSS4G agreements for the
> last few years at
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1awsek1VhXSpgca4tjT_VC_70eRYybwjZVXsY4YawJ7c/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> In most years OSGeo has signed an agreement with the PCO and in 2013
> with the venue directly. As far as i can see none of these agreements
> had any cap on the liabilities of OSGeo if something went badly wrong,
> typically a late cancellation could expose a liability of 70-80% of costs.
>
> I do not know whether the OSGeo board was fully aware of the commitments
> is was making in each year that it signed such an agreement?
>
> The proposed agreement limited OSGeo liability to €100k, this is less of
> a risk than in previous years.
>
> I suggest the conference committee makes the prospective bidders for
> FOSS4G 2017 aware of the uncertainty regarding financial guarantees from
> OSGeo so that they can factor this risk into their proposals.
> ______
> Steven
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>> On 10 Sep 2015, at 18:44, board-request at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:board-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> *From:*Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>>
>> *Subject:**Re: [Board] Motion: 2016 Financial Agreement*
>> *Date:*10 September 2015 18:14:15 BST
>> *To:*michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:*"board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>"
>> <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>
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>> My vote is +1 on this.
>>
>> But to be honest I’m very disappointed that we are not more supportive
>> of the LOC.
>>
>> If I was the 2016 LOC, I would not wait for OSGeo and go my own way
>> with an insurance and also not giving back substantial funds to OSGeo.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
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