On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi Chris! > > On 4 April 2016 at 01:23, Chris Leonard <[1]cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Dave Crossland <[2]d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > On another note, and sorry that I missed this as it was surely stated > > elsewhere, but, what is the proposed annual fee to be paid to the TCM? > > Absent a final job description, no final number has been discussed, > yet. I believe a monthly all-in number is envisioned, as opposed to > an hourly costing, although expressing expectations about approximate > hourly commitment would not at all be unreasonable. The discussion > did not really have the chance to develop that far. > > Hmm. I think Adam's concern about drift is well founded, but, the risk seems > proportional to how the ratio of the budget for the role to Sugar Labs' > capital > base. > > If we're talking $10,000/week (which in my own work recently I have found > typical for software development contracting in the USA) then its not a good > idea :) If it is 6-month, $6k contract with $80k in the bank, that seems > pretty > harmless to me even if it was a total failure, had no oversight, and delivered > nothing.
Agreed. Sugar Labs is more at risk of failure to use available funds than it is at risk of losing funds without return. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep