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       title: June 14th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-06-14, 12:00:53 -07:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/tech-event-budget-template/

     

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       I've published my [[Tech Event Budget Template]]. This is a very basic starting point for scoping the costs and ticket + sponsor revenue of an event that is mainly talks and networking.

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       link: https://bigtimelicense.com/

     

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       A public license that makes software free for noncommercial and small-business use, with a guarantee that fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory paid-license terms will be available for everyone else.

     

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       Created by [[Kyle Mitchell]]

     

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       Version 2.0.2

     

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       ## Purpose

     

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       ## Acceptance

     

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       In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

     

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       ## Noncommercial Purposes

     

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       2.  indefinitely, if the licensor or their legal successor does not offer fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms for a commercial license for the software within 32 days of [written request](#how-to-request) and negotiate in good faith to conclude a deal

     

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       If this software includes an address for the licensor or an agent of the licensor in a standard place, such as in documentation, software package metadata, or an "about" page or screen, try to request a fair commercial license at that address.  If this package includes both online and offline addresses, try online before offline.  If you can't deliver a request that way, or this software doesn't include any addressees, spend one hour online researching an address, recording all your searches and inquiries as you go, and try any addresses that you find.  If you can't find any addresses, or if those addresses also fail, that counts as failure to offer a fair commercial license by the licensor under [Big Business](#big-business).

     

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       Fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms may license the software perpetually or for a term, and may or may not cover new versions of the software.  If the licensor advertises license terms and a pricing structure for generally available commercial licenses, the licensor proposes license terms and a price as advertised, and a customer not affiliated with the licensor has bought a commercial license for the software on substantially equivalent terms in the past year, the proposal is fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory.

     

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       Blue Oak Council opens the software commons up to those who can’t find or afford specialized legal help by bringing experienced lawyer-technologists together to publish free, practical materials about software licenses.

     

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       > Permissive licenses are the bread and butter of software development: simple, effective, and on just about everyone’s “go” list. But most information about free and open source software focuses on other, more complex licenses. The Council publishes this list to identify permissive licenses, so that everyone can recognize, rely on, and use them without expensive legal help.

     

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       Open source is no longer a radical act. From legal innovation to ways of working remotely and collaboratively, the past 20 years have integrated it as a common baseline. Can we get maintainers paid, make open source a job, and work alongside new tools like AI? What new licenses, ways of working, and principles power the next 20 years?

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       I've plugged in a line item for A/V that is relatively high. Getting high quality recordings of talks are a great resource, something that sponsors can sponsor / have their logos and materials embedded in, and is valuable for speakers and future versions of the event.

     

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       Here is the [Google Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nJAKidA_L7-55BELdEFktoKjpUNu8j3wMCeGCHg-rgo/edit) version. Use the _File » Make a copy_ command to make your own version to work with.

     

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