[Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

Fri Oct 18 15:07:03 BST 2013

We’ve discussed this before but you could probably make some money from merchandising; how much I don’t know but the opportunity is there… again though it’s dependent on the use of the trademark and the ownership – there doesn’t seem much point registering the trademark and then not doing anything with it…

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:55 PM
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

With the foundation stuff, we were thinking about whether the University should hand ownership off to it, rather than keep it, but unbeknown to me the University has registered a trademark against ‘Xerte’, to be managed in much the same way Moodle manage theirs. Ultimately the problem we came up against in the sustainability conversations was that no one seemed very keen to leave this job to pursue it.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Berthelemy
Sent: 18 October 2013 14:39
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

Or another way of looking at it is: if things carry on just as they are; with a focus on institutions that will fund development, what is the viability of Xerte in the medium/long term?

BTW. You don't have to set up a Foundation. You could easily create a company for much less cost...

Mark

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On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 13:07, Julian Tenney wrote:

Probably depends on how ambitious we want to be. We are in a very good place right now, and we can just carry on as we are, but there is a limit to how far we can go, I think, when we all have day jobs.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 18 October 2013 12:55
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

If I was playing with my MBA (no sniggering, I do genuinely have one) I would say we are at the "growth wall", which is a point at which SMEs decide to how expand (new markets, more staff etc. etc)

It is inevitably the big risk they face (if you discount starting in the first place) and is when bad things happen.

It would seem logical that we all half agree some funding is required to go anywhere

So, where?

Kickstarter? Indiegogo? Shuttleworth? Hewlett?

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

We considered setting up a foundation, but it fell over when we discovered it would cost £5k or £10k a year and would take quite a bit of work to do. It could be resurrected as a discussion though.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Mark Berthelemy
Sent: 18 October 2013 11:48

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

FYI. I did consider setting up a paid service for another open source project, but decided against it as the project had no formal entity through which I could feed back payments.

If Xerte did have some sort of formal body it would give people confidence to start investing in it…

Mark

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On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 11:43, Ron Mitchell wrote:

Paid for services already exist but for education at least somewhat of a thankless task at least in terms labour v profitability!

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