[okfn-coord] License consultancy work for EU Transparency?

Wed Aug 19 18:28:09 UTC 2009

Jordan: please look through the below and confirm you would ok be ok
with what we are suggesting (especially the 1 day from you).

Does £2000 seem a reasonable amount to people?

Rufus

2009/8/19 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jack Thurston<jack at farmsubsidy.org> wrote:
>> Can you give me a quote for the deliverables we've discussed?
>
> The main deliverables are to (i) agree a license, (ii) draft an FAQ
> explaining the choice. (See below for his original request.)

Having read the rest of your email (see some comments) below I think
we should quote £2000 being:

£1350: 1.5 days @ £900 per day for legal expert (Jordan Hatcher) to
determine license, talk through options, draft application text (e.g.
This material is licensed under ....)
£600: 2 days @ £300 per day at our NGO rate for work on FAQs,
integration into website, discussion etc

This is conditional on them using an existing open license (with
extremely limited, if any, drafting of additional text).

> I think this could be done quickly in a day or two, but depends what
> is in the FAQ, and how much it is based on existing material, and how
> much new material we'll be drafting and agreeing upon.

Any extra drafting and we are in to serious extra work.

> Rufus, Jordan: any sense on how long this would take based on previous
> work? Also, how much of the work are either of you interested in
> doing?
>
> Also, perhaps we should make it clear at the outset that we will be
> helping to explain the licensing options available, and select one
> appropriate for the task - rather drafting a new one.

Yes, I think that is essential.

> Our previous day rate was £275 per day. So two days in £550, three
> days is £825, four days is £1100, five days is £1375.

That was our very cheap NGO rate for a researcher. If Jordan (a
qualified, expert lawyer) were to work on this we'd be looking at
least our full non-profit rate (£450 per day) and maybe more.

> Also I don't know if we want to specify that this requires X amount of
> time for legal expertise. So, e.g. 4 days @ £275 + 1 day @ £400 =
> £1500.
>
> What do people think we should quote?