[kde-usa] KDE U.S. NPO

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm I guess this is where the problem is then. We don't currently have
a concrete proposal on the board's table that we can say yes or no to.
And it wasn't high enough on the priority list to follow up and get
such a proposal. Sorry :/
If one of the previous things is considered as such a proposal by you
then please do follow up on that again because at least I don't
remember one right that was a yes/no one.
Personally I'd absolutely love to see someone look into SPI as an
option closer if someone has the time for it.


Cheers
Lydia

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