[Fiware-ga] Formal check for no-objections to incorporation of Red.es as new partner of FI-WARE

[stefano de panfilis]

dera juanjo,

ok from engineering

ciao,
stefano

2012/10/1 Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>

>  Dear FI-WARE partner representatives,
>
>   This mail is sent to the mailing list that is supposed to include the
> representatives of each FI-WARE Partner in the Grant Agreement that
> constitute the so called FI-WARE General Assembly.
>
>   Incorporation of Red.es is one of the points that will be part of an
> amendment to the Grant Agreement that we are currently closing.   Red.es,
> as you may probably know, is the organization that has brought and operates
> the infrastructure (datacenter, servers, and connectivity to the Internet)
> on top of which the FI-WARE Testbed is being deployed.   Red.es has already
> spent around 200 K€ in equipments dedicated to the tesbed and is planning
> to extend its investment up to additional 1M€ for the FI-WARE Second
> Release.    Red.es is a public corporate entity attached to the Spanish
> Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR)  which is responsible
> for promoting the development of the Information Society in Spain.
>
>   The deal we reached with Red.es was agreed at FI-WARE PCC (Project
> Coordination Committee) level and implied that Red.es would contribute all
> the above mentioned physical infrastructure without costs to the FI-WARE
> project.   However, Red.es stated during the negotiations that it would
> require coverage of at least some of the operational costs it will incur.
> The FI-WARE PCC found out that the best way to accommodate this was
> allowing Red.es to join as a new partner (this way, only a % of those costs
> would be covered) and assigning it an amount of funding that would partly
> cover their operation costs and their participation in some dissemination
> activities.   The FI-WARE PCC found that this funding could be obtained by
> means of reducing a bit the budget/funding linked to reimburse costs of
> members of the Scientific Council (SC) and Market Advisory Council (MAC)
> initially planned, taking advantage that activities of both Councils have
> not yet started, as well as some funding assigned to UPM to cover their
> participation in the Data/Context Management WP.    This way, incorporation
> of Red.es would not have impact on budget/funding of any of the existing
> partners.
>
>   Note that incorporation of Red.es as partner has the advantage that it
> will imply they will sign the Consortium Agreement, therefore they will
> comply with all the clauses about confidenciality, liability, etc. that
> seemed to be a concern for some of the partners.  The amount of funding
> that Red.es would be assigned would be 127 K€, for a total budget of of 190
> K€ (i.e., aprox. 66,8% of funding)
>
>   In order to implement all this, we need to confirm there is no objection
> by any of the FI-WARE partners to the incorporation of Red.es as FI-WARE
> partner.   That is the rationale for this mail.
>
>   Unless any objection is received before EOB of Friday this week, we will
> proceed according to the plan and the decisions made at FI-WARE PCC level.
>
>   Best regards,
>
>
> -- Juanjo Hierro
>
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