[GeoNode-devel] Incubation / Transfer of Copyright to Osgeo / Contributor License Agreement

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Jody, Can you take a look at the pycsw issue link above. That seems like
the easiest method by far, but not sure if we can do this too?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Jody Garnett <jgarnett at boundlessgeo.com>
wrote:

> Just to chime in here, the osgeo contribution agreement has some
> instructions in it about emailing the signed documents to the osgeo
> secretary. If you can explain what docusign is I am sure osgeo can both pay
> for it and would love to have an easier procedure for the secretary.
>
> So not push back - more wondering if we can do things better.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thanks to Andy Dearing, Jody Garnett and Dan Berry at Boundless, we
>> have secured the necessary documentation to transfer copyright for the
>> GeoNode codebase from OpenPlans to OSGeo. Dan is in the process of
>> preparing a Pull Request that updates all the headers and will submit
>> it shortly.
>>
>> David Bitner will continue working with us through the incubation
>> process. The next big step here is for us to adopt a Contributor
>> License Agreement and get us all (or at least most) to sign. See Issue
>> #2363 for some information
>> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/2363 You can see the text
>> for the CLA here
>> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html
>>
>> Having personally had to sign TONs of documents recently, I would like
>> to strongly suggest that we use Docusign or a similar service for this
>> process as the burden on the signer is incredibly low compared to the
>> print, sign, scan, send method. Ill check in with Jody (cc'd) and the
>> incubation committee to ensure that this will satisfy their
>> requirements, but Im confident it will.
>>
>> So, I'd like to make a motion to a) Acknowledge the transfer from
>> OpenPlans to OSGeo b) adopt the OSGeo supplied CLAs and c) use
>> docusign (or similar) for obtaining signatures. If we can all agree on
>> these things, Ill go ahead and get the documents out for everyones
>> signature and we can move forward on incubation.
>>
>> I'll start with my own +1 for a, b and c.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help on this,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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