[kde-usa] KDE U.S. NPO

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 5/9/2012 6:06 AM, Claudia Rauch wrote:
> On 9 May 2012 03:12, Steve Hay <hay.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Is this a matter of the board having other priorities and putting this issue
>> aside, or are there issues being raised with the terms which have been
>> offered? Would it make sense to get a proposal from SPI as well, so the two
>> can be directly compared?
> 
> I think it is mostly a matter of other priorities, but Lydia, maybe
> you can comment. I suppose it won't hurt to get a proposal from SPI.

I think it's both other priorities and the fact that what the SFC offers
has come at increasingly high of a (financial) cost, making it a much
less obvious decision.

In the past we've looked at ASF, SPI, going it ourselves, and other
possibilities. I'm not sure it's worth getting a proposal from SPI at
this point (actually I'm not even sure what they would put in a proposal
as IIRC they're pretty up-front about what services they provide). The
SFC's patent indemnity bits were a very strong argument in their favor
as those of us in the U.S. can imagine.

Really we're just waiting for the board to make a decision about whether
the SFC's particular benefits outweigh the financial cost. Once they
make that decision, we'll either be going with the SFC, or we'll have
another look at the other umbrella orgs and options, including SPI.

--Jeff

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