[Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

[Pat @ Pgogy]

I was mumbling yesterday to 2 elearning people from London Unis about a XOT
conference

Organise one, charge 50 quid per head more than costs, 100 people come,
quids in


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>  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…****
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> John Smith****
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> School of Health & Life Sciences****
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> Glasgow Caledonian University****
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> *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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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net****
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> 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.****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Mark Berthelemy
> *Sent:* 18 October 2013 14:39
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net****
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> 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?****
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> BTW. You don't have to set up a Foundation. You could easily create a
> company for much less cost...****
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> Mark****
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> Mark Berthelemy****
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> On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 13:07, Julian Tenney wrote:****
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>   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.****
>
>  ****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Pat @ Pgogy
> *Sent:* 18 October 2013 12:55
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net****
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>  ****
>
> 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) ****
>
>  ****
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> It is inevitably the big risk they face (if you discount starting in the
> first place) and is when bad things happen.****
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>  ****
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> It would seem logical that we all half agree some funding is required to
> go anywhere****
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>  ****
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> So, where? ****
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>  ****
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> Kickstarter? Indiegogo? Shuttleworth? Hewlett?****
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>  ****
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Julian Tenney <
> 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.****
>
>  ****
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> *From:* 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****
>
>  ****
>
> 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. ****
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>  ****
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> If Xerte did have some sort of formal body it would give people confidence
> to start investing in it…****
>
>  ****
>
> Mark****
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>  ****
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> -- ****
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> Mark Berthelemy****
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> Managing Director - Wyver Solutions Ltd****
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> Tel:      01773 318 962****
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> Mob:    07922 146 761****
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> Web:    www.wyversolutions.co.uk****
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>  ****
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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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