Investigate electronic signing of CLAs

[iteles]

https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

Linked to #27

[iteles]

A few options:

• There are of course many paid eSignature services, for example:
  • HelloSign
  • DocuSign
  • Adobe's EchoSign
• There are also some free ones but I'm not expecting people to be keen on handing over their signatures to just any app:
  • CudaSign for iOS and DocuSign for Android
  • eSign Genie
• Google has a simple 'I agree' button on their form without requiring an actual digital signature
• PDF signatures using Preview for Mac or Adobe Reader for Windows
• Good ol' fashioned paper & pen

Some more investigation is required on the legal implications of the Google 'I agree' button, but this seems like it might be the simplest and most intuitive solution long term.

tl;dr We ultimately don't want to be giving out people's data to 'third parties' we (or developers who might want to collaborate with us) don't trust.

For the short term (summer), we should choose between paper agreements or PDF signatures (which I would favour as they're more eco-friendly).

Any objections to this? (cc/ @nelsonic)

[nelsonic]

Agree with not wanting to give out people's personal data. I don't want to store it in the first place. I quite like the google "I agree" approach, they know they won't have to legally enforce it. I've used all of the paid ones while @GRPN so know the pros/cons of each. Hello sign is the simplest. Ultimately I want to formalised gentleman's agreement, more of a social contract than a market one, more Kiva or Grameen than Barclays ...

Does anyone else have thoughts on this? how would @dwyl/doers do it?

[iteles]

Right, but for this summer, even though I don't want us to store them, I think we have much better data privacy principles than third parties...

[nelsonic]

Agree. so... conclusion?

[iteles]

PDFs for the summer, 'I agree' button after that was my tl;dr!

[nelsonic]

PDFs which get physically printed off and signed? or...?

[iteles]

PDFs which are signed digitally using Preview or Adobe Reader annotating functions. :green_heart: :evergreen_tree: