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

[Jody Garnett]

Found the link on the github ticket, responded directly:

https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/2363

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>> Community Lead | Boundless <http://boundlessgeo.com/>
>> jgarnett at boundlessgeo.com <http://mailto:jgarnett@boundlessgeo.com/>
>> @jodygarnett <https://twitter.com/jodygarnett>
>>
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