Anyone else had a chance to read? Reading for the first time today - initial thing I noticed was that the payment schedule has first payment April 1st - and we have not signed the contract yet!
Here are my notes.
Payment schedule:
only thing that stood out for me was €XX for “monthly technical website support”. Wonder if that is to cover communication with SAC, it was also not clear to me if that was intended to be for the duration of the contract or ongoing… (note answered below)
Design
No questions
Graphics and Photographs
Vector graphic format
Photographs - we have plenty from foss4g events, no need for stock.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
No questinos
Browser Testing / Mobile Browser Testing
That is fine, a little better than expected with testing “Edge”.
Technical Support
Okay my question is answered they run the beta site, and then help SAC install. That is smart on their behalf so customers do not “walk off with” assets without paying.
Search Engine Optimization
Just straight accessible to search engines; we will let our content do the talking.
Changes and Revisions
Usual deal, if we change our mind they can quote for additional work
Legal Stuff
No questions.
Intellectual Property rights
Just a definition, why is this here? Ah a checklist:
text, images, artwork - we can handle making sure we have permission to use this
they will assign to us IP they create during this contract … if we pay
design & visuals are now ours
work prior/seperate to this project → osgeo gets an unlimited license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look will end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
Displaying
I am fine with them showcasing the resulting website.
Fine Print
The language is very clear for a contract - apparently simple works in the Dutch courts.
work prior/seperate to this project → osgeo gets an unlimited license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look will end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
We do intend to take generated design and use it across our product line for projects such as OSGeo Live (which are distributed under an open source license).
This definitely needs to be clarified. OSGeo will *own* all work
products generated under this project and it alone has the authority
to set the license under which they are distributed. I believe we
should use the appropriate cc licenses, but this is our decision as an
organization, not the vendors.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com> wrote:
In case it was not obvious this is my hesitation:
- work prior/seperate to this project --> osgeo gets an unlimited
license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look will
end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
We do intend to take generated design and use it across our product line for
projects such as OSGeo Live (which are distributed under an open source
license).
It was a subtle difference - they were clear we own all work produced during the project.
The clarification is needed for prior IP they bring to the party. One of the reasons to go with a company that does this for a living is they bring IP and experience to the party.
I just want to double check that their IP (even if we have an unlimited license) does not end up anywhere in the themes produced; since we intend to share them with our sub-brands: geoforall.org, live.osgeo.org, etc…
This definitely needs to be clarified. OSGeo will own all work
products generated under this project and it alone has the authority
to set the license under which they are distributed. I believe we
should use the appropriate cc licenses, but this is our decision as an
organization, not the vendors.
work prior/seperate to this project → osgeo gets an unlimited
license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look will
end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
We do intend to take generated design and use it across our product line for
projects such as OSGeo Live (which are distributed under an open source
license).
It was a subtle difference - they were clear we own all work produced during the project.
The clarification is needed for prior IP they bring to the party. One of the reasons to go with a company that does this for a living is they bring IP and experience to the party.
I just want to double check that their IP (even if we have an unlimited license) does not end up anywhere in the themes produced; since we intend to share them with our sub-brands: geoforall.org, live.osgeo.org, etc…
This definitely needs to be clarified. OSGeo will own all work
products generated under this project and it alone has the authority
to set the license under which they are distributed. I believe we
should use the appropriate cc licenses, but this is our decision as an
organization, not the vendors.
work prior/seperate to this project → osgeo gets an unlimited
license (we need to make sure they understand that the graphical look will
end up in open source projects and we cannot have a license conflict)
We do intend to take generated design and use it across our product line for
projects such as OSGeo Live (which are distributed under an open source
license).
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