IdP 3 Release Date?

[Chad La Joie]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Kevin P. Foote <kpfoote at iup.edu> wrote:
> I have always been under the impression that we were 'covered' with our InC
> / Internet2 memberships.. Honestly though I really don't know how much of
> this gets re-injected back to projects, (any projects).

I have *no* idea how accounting is done there.  I can say that for the
current half year, I2/InC is covering 30% of Scott and 50% of Brent.
We have no knowledge whether that will continue and there has
certainly been...  discrepancies... between what we've been told and
what has been delivered.  So... who knows.

> As a smallish Univ. I'm sure we will not be able to become members of
> the/any consortium.. but I will be sending some sort of proposal across
> my superiors desktops.

Well, there is no minimum for a donation.  I do know that the per
annum membership fee, however, is far far smaller an amount that
pretty much any "enterprise" software package any university buys.

> Quick thought: Perhaps Nicole et all can come up with some sort of software
> maint/updating wording that would work for any <5k donation etc..

Well "membership" doesn't buy anything special other than the ability
to be voted on to the board, really.  So, if you don't care about that
(and honestly I don't know why most people would), then making a
donation seems the most straightforward avenue to me.

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