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

[Karen M. Sandler]

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
> 
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> | Equinox Open Library Initiative
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> 
> ---------- 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