[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Re: Fwd: draft agreement to send to MOBIUS

[Mike Rylander]

Ah, thank you then.  Much appreciated!

This one came through quickly, but I'm not sure if the list admins
moderated it or you're just "there" now.

Thanks,

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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:09 PM Karen M. Sandler <karen at sfconservancy.org>
wrote:

> OK! I had kept the address on cc but I think my emails are moderated.

> karen

> On 2018-05-22 2:05 pm, Mike Rylander wrote:
> > Hello EOB and Karen
> >
> > Since there's been some question about the evergreen at sfconservancy.org
> > mailing list (some folks seem not to be receiving the emails, but
> > should
> > be) I'm forwarding Karen's recent email to the community-run list as
> > well.
> > This is also good
> > for archiving purposes, of course.
> >
> > Karen, would you mind keeping eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
> > on
> > the CC list, at least for the time being, until I have a chance to
> > coordinate with Brett to make sure we're set up as expected?
> >
> > Thanks, all
> >
> > --
> > | Mike Rylander
> > | President
> > | Equinox Open Library Initiative
> > | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> > | email:  miker at EquinoxInitiative.org
> > | web:    http://EquinoxInitiative.org
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Karen M. Sandler <karen at sfconservancy.org>
> > Date: Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:05 PM
> > Subject: Fwd: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: draft agreement to send to
> > MOBIUS
> > To: <evergreen at sfconservancy.org>
> >
> >
> >>> The project has to cover any loss.  It's a risk we take each year,
> >>> unfortunately.  Insurance can offset that, though I don't have the
> >>> details of the plan, if any, that SFC holds currently.
> >
> >> I think we need to adjust the agreement in order to make this the
> >> case. I'll talk to the EOB about the right way to accomplish this.
> >
> >
> > hi EOB! All of our conference hosting agreements to date have had the
> > hosting organization take on the liability of the conference, while we
> > being guaranteed a minimum revenue. That aligned everybody's interests
> > nicely. This situation is totally different, since you tell me MOBIUS
> > isn't taking profit. Here, we could do this in a few different ways,
> > but
> > I think keeping it simple will be best.
> >
> > We could say something like in the event that the Conference Gross
> > Profits are a negative number, Conservancy agrees to reimburse MOBIUS
> > up
> > to $X of Conference specific expenses.
> >
> > This way, it protects Evergreen from MOBIUS incurring a large amount of
> > unexpected expenses. As they'll be the ones with access to all of the
> > revenue, they'll be in the best position to know how close the
> > conference is to the margin and they'll be negotiating the liability
> > limits in the contracts.  $30,000 seems like a reasonable number in
> > this
> > context but let me know.
> >
> > karen