On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 31/10/2016 22:53, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> Hi! >> >> thanks for the positive feedback. As Mark said -- time is tight >> so please respond to the following ASAP. >> >> I went through the registration process on behalf of ASF and >> two statements stood out: >> 1. Google is asking whether we'd be comfortable supplying >> ~200 small'ish tasks. I think we are. > > We should be able to do that. > >> 2. There's an Organization Agreement that I'm expected to click >> through. I'm attaching it bellow. It looks pretty bare bones to me, >> but if anything jumps at you -- please let me know ASAP. > > Two issues jump out at me. > > You don't have the authority to sign it. You need to be an officer of > the foundation to do that and as I recall you aren't currently a V.P..
I don't think that's required. At least not on the Google side. They defined who can sign up an org on the first screen and it was "any active member..." Now, as a board member you may have a take on whether that's ok from ASF side, but its ok with Google. > I'm not comfortable with the Indemnities section. Our liability to > Google is unlimited with no control over the expenses that Google could > rack up. There are various scenarios that are well within the bounds of > possibility that could trigger a liability for us. That exposes that ASF > to a massive potential risk. > > Google's liability to us is limited to a mere $1,000. > > Putting on my director hat, V.P. Legal (Bcc'd) needs to sign off on this > before anyone commits the ASF to this agreement. Hm. Ok. That could be a deal breaker. Well, if V.P. Legal can chime in one way or the other ASAP -- that'd be highly appreciated. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
