[OpenID board] OSL handling infrastructure for openid.net ...

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Bravo! I was having a few private emails with Scott and David, where I 
raised exactly the same concern and arguments.

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Dick Hardt:
> As treasurer of a Foundation I can't support spending money we 
> received to promote OpenID on a donation to another charity.
>
> I agree OSL is doing good work, but fiscal prudence dictates that we 
> pay market price for managing our infrastructure. I'd like to see a 
> hosting and administration contract with someone (could be OSL) that 
> is competitive and good value.
>
> -- Dick
>
> On 28-Jul-08, at 10:14 AM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
>
>> Those are good reasons to do it.  Are there any reasons people can 
>> think of not to?
>>
>> -DeWitt
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Scott Kveton <scott at kveton.com 
>> <mailto:scott at kveton.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey Everybody,
>>
>>     We've talked about handing more of the infrastructure off to the OSL
>>     folks in the past but now I'd really like to do it ... :-)
>>
>>     I spoke with the infra manager for the OSL this past week and
>>     they are
>>     willing to handle much more than we're already letting them.  Things
>>     like mailman, general updates to the machine, backups, etc will
>>     all be
>>     folded into this service.  This would help with things like the
>>     mailman issues we had last week that slowed delivery of mail to the
>>     general list.
>>
>>     In addition, we have budgeted some money to give to them for this
>>     kind
>>     of work.  I'd like to make a donation to the OSL for $10,000 to help
>>     offset their costs as well as promote the work they are doing.
>>
>>     Questions/comments/concerns?
>>
>>     - Scott
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