[foundation-board] Situation with data.gov.uk CKAN work

Wed Aug 11 19:42:26 UTC 2010

On 9 August 2010 09:44, Ian Brown <ian.brown at oii.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2010, at 08:57, Becky Hogge wrote:
>
>> I'm happy for other members of the Board to tell me to shut up if they
>> think I'm being trivial or obstructive,
>
> No, it is critical this is resolved.
>
>> but I view this situation as
>> the greatest risk to the OKF's development currently and I'd just like
>> to be better briefed on it.
>>
>> I'd also note that nobody on the Board has yet explicitly agreed with
>> Rufus's advice to us, which exposes us all to quite a bit of risk.
>
> Rufus, could you please explain the consequences if the worst happens and no further payments are forthcoming from the Cabinet Office? How much does that leave OKF owing to whom - and do our contractual terms with those individuals require OKF to bear the risk of such non-payment?

I will report on this tomorrow at the Board meeting. You could also
(partially analyse this) by looking at the "project" tracking item
"data.gov.uk - ckan" in xero (though I haven't yet worked out how to
get a report on this in the way I would like).

Rufus