On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Eve Maler <eve@xmlgrrl.com> wrote:

Hi folks— In conversation with SteveO and Robin W from ISOC, I learned they would be willing to support the UMA WG with some directed funding to Kantara to the tune of US$10K, to arrive by 31 Dec 2015 and to be spent in 2016. (Thanks, SteveO/Robin/ISOC, for your support!)

I thought it would be a good idea to treat this as a matching funds opportunity in addition to a (required) formal writeup of what I have already described to them as a good target for development. The target: A user interface/environment for enabling the convenient creation of a variant UMA-specific set of contract clauses that could be used in real business settings, such as Adrian brought up in a legal subgroup meeting a few weeks ago.

As research, I just spent the last hour meeting with Jim Hazard, and we worked out the following draft budget proposal with which we feel pretty comfortable:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFFwU_7EmXVtpTb0s7SZVkQ4NFOC6oi4uNInLDqcMFw/edit?usp=sharing

There is a DEADLINE OF TODAY for getting 2016 budget proposals in. Can I ask people to review this proposal and weigh in on a) the idea of submitting the proposal at all, and b) the text of the proposal if they think the submission is a good idea?

To be clear, ISOC has guaranteed its contribution already; we are asking for Kantara funding over and above this in order to ensure we can do a really good job (so perhaps, in a sense, we’re asking Kantara to match ISOC’s funding!).

If you have any questions, of course, please let me know. If I don’t hear any strenuous objections by 10pm CET (where I currently am) / 4pm ET / 1pm PT (sorry for the early hour on the west coast), I will send in the proposal.

Thanks,

Eve

Eve Maler | cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl | Calendar: xmlgrrl@gmail.com

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