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

Wed Aug 19 22:17:06 UTC 2009

1 day is fine with me and the 2,000 seems reasonable.

FYI -- I'm away from email for the next two days.

~Jordan

On 19 Aug 2009, at 19:28, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> 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?
>
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