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

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