[osidm4he-stratorg] CIFER / Shib

[Chad La Joie]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Michael Schwartz <mike at gluu.org> wrote:
> What if InCommon added a $350 "tax" per IDP/SP, with proceeds going back
> to the Shib Foundation? This would raise $100k. It is a very reasonable
> annual software maintenance price for something as mission critical as
> Shib. And if federations in other countries and markets follwed the lead
> of paying back "something," it could provide at least a basic model for
> supporting this important project...

Obviously, I can't comment on the feasibility of it but for comparison
I can say this:
- that number is a bit lower than was JISC and SWITCH currently
contribute so it's "in the ball park" of what similar organizations
are doing
- that number represented about 1FTE per annum and the Shib project
currently has about 2-2.25FTE of developers.

Not to sound like one of our Republicans right now, but I do wish that
we could broaden the base and have each organization pay less.  The
model you suggest for InC is different than what JISC and SWITCH do.
For them, its £100k directly out of their operational budget and I
don't think any one organization should have to pay that much
themselves.  I am incredibly grateful though that they've been willing
to do that so far.  If they handn't, this project would have died 2
years ago.

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Chad La Joie
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