On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:23:37AM -0500, Brett Smith wrote: > On 01/11/2018 04:20 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > Thanks Brett, looking forward to it, let me know once you've hear from > > legal. > > We can accept it, although we’re not wild about how it doesn’t define > what’s really “fair use” on page 2. But still, I’m guessing your use > will be on the more conservative side, so as long as you feel confident > you’re not going to run into trouble with it, let me know and I’ll get > an account made. > > > The intent from the outset was to secure a pair of hosting providers, one > > primary one backup. The cloudscale.ch offer seems broader and more long > > term, so independent of the ToS issue I would be leaning towards them as > > primary with DigitalOcean as the backup. If the ToS issue removes > > DigitalOcean from the running then I'm sure we can find an alternate, so > > we can continue keeping our eyes open. > > The ToS issue has to be resolved, at least. I was a little surprised at > your earlier response that you don’t have a direct contact with them. Am > I following right that you got a grant for hosting from them, without > ever interacting with a specific person over there? If that’s right, > just for my understanding, how did that come about?
One of our Inkscaper's who has been a customer of theirs (Ryan - cc'd), sent our request to them. I don't know if he directed it to a specific person or their general contact address, but it elicited a response from an actual person that made the offer. However, my two followup emails simply got auto-replies. I'll forward you that original email. > We have a separate contact we can hopefully use to connect us to their > legal department. It’s pretty indirect, which is why I was holding out > for someone who might have at least some of the background of what’s > going on here already. But we can work with it if you still want to > proceed with DigitalOcean too, which it sounds like you do. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Brett Smith Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
