[pypy-svn] r8693 - pypy/funding

[hpk at codespeak.net]

Author: hpk
Date: Sat Jan 29 12:01:33 2005
New Revision: 8693

Modified:
   pypy/funding/physical-person-model.txt
Log:
some fixes and better phrasing. 



Modified: pypy/funding/physical-person-model.txt
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--- pypy/funding/physical-person-model.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/funding/physical-person-model.txt	Sat Jan 29 12:01:33 2005
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 "Physical Persons" in the PyPy EU project 
 ========================================= 
 
@@ -70,10 +69,10 @@
     and outside the Open Source movement as well as to commercial
     and academic organisations. 
 
-
 It is thus a primary issue for the PyPy partners to implement
-the models and measures neccessary to interact and invite 
-the wide community of experts and interested developers. 
+models and measures neccessary to interact and invite 
+the wide community of interested researchers, experts and 
+interested developers. 
 
 The model of getting physical persons into the consortium
 ---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -101,46 +100,52 @@
   full accounting systems and thus expect them to use 
   the AC model (in a very simple way). 
 
-- Regarding cost reimbursement we would like to reimburse 
-  costs to the acceeded physical persons attending sprints 
-  while they are on the sprint venue.  They should usually 
+- We would like to reimburse costs to the external 
+  sprint participants (as physical persons) while they 
+  are on the sprint venue.  They should usually 
   receive the money after we received copies of their 
-  receipts for travel/accomodation costs.  The EU commission 
-  only prepays 80% of the full funding amount, yet we may 
-  like to reimburse 100% of their costs directly to minimize 
-  later distribution work.  
+  receipts for travel/accomodation costs.  Although the 
+  EU commission prepays only 80% of the full funding amount, 
+  we may want to reimburse 100% of their costs at once to 
+  distribution work.  
 
-- physical persons also sign an amendment to our Consortium
+- Physical persons are to sign an amendment to our Consortium
   contract. Here we need to specialize their membership 
-  internally in order to allow the consortium to continue
-  to act efficiently.  In other words, we cannot make the
-  physical persons full members of the consortium because
-  it would make meetings and decisions ever more difficult. 
+  internally in order to allow the consortium of full parnters 
+  to continue to act efficiently.  We cannot make sprint 
+  participants (physical persons) full members of the consortium 
+  because it would make meetings and decisions ever more difficult. 
 
   Therefore, physical persons are to enter as "associated
   partners" which waive their voting rights and are not
-  required to attend consortium meetings. we consider this
-  mostly an internal details of the consortium than something
-  the EU commission has to care about. 
-
-- We want physical persons to _not_ participate in the 
+  required to attend consortium meetings. We consider this
+  mostly an internal detail of the consortium than something
+  the EU commission has to care about.
+   
+  Also we want physical persons to _not_ participate in the 
   general common liability of the full consortium partners 
   towards the EU commission.  We feel that it is unwarranted 
   to receive work and contribution "for free" from sprint 
-  participants and then make them liable if the consortium 
-  cannot deliver as promised to the EU. 
+  participants and then make them liable if the full partners 
+  cannot deliver as promised to the EU.  
 
-- sprint participants/physical persons should at best 
-  also not be required to deliver audit certificates. 
+- sprint participants (formally physical persons) should 
+  not be required to deliver audit certificates. 
   If this is not feasible then we need to find an auditor who
-  is willing to audit the cost statements of the physical
+  is willing to audit the very simple cost statements of the physical
   persons in a way that does not affect the management budget.
   (The costs for audit certificates are accounted to the
-  management budget).  If audit certificates even for one or
-  two-time attenders of sprints then we kindly ask the EU
-  commission for special allowance to not count the according
-  costs to the "7% management Cap" rule. 
-
+  management budget as far as we know).  If audit certificates 
+  are neccessary even for one or two-time attenders of sprints 
+  then we kindly ask the EU commission for special allowance to 
+  not count the according costs to the "7% management Cap" rule. 
+
+Please note that the costs for sprint participants (physical 
+persons) will only affect a very small portion of the overall 
+budget. Also we are - as explicitely stated in the proposal - 
+pioneering agile development/sprinting methods within 
+an EU project we hope that the commission will help us
+to design the process in the proposed lightweight manner. 
 
 Time frame 
 ----------
@@ -149,7 +154,8 @@
 getting physical persons into the EU project by mid 
 February 2005.  We have a number of people already interested
 and many of them are already explicitely mentioned in 
-the proposal (B.4.2.1.4 and B.4.2.2.1). 
+the proposal (B.4.2.1.4 and B.4.2.2.1 in the last amended 
+version of December 2004). 
 
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