Hi all, Having an umbrella org take care of the legal and administrative overhead makes a _lot_ of sense to me. And OKFN seems to be the right kind of umbrella. Do it!
Mark P.S. Lightning talk and/or stand proposals for FOSDEM 2014 are welcomed at https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-09-17-call-for-participation-part-two ... 2013/10/6 Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be>: > 2013/10/5 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpa...@okfn.org> >> >> Hi OSM, >> >> With Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium vzw we are building an umbrella >> organisation for Open Knowledge in Belgium. Creative Commons Belgium is a >> working group, the iRail initiative has become a working group (Open >> Transport), we have people working on open source software for open data (We >> Open Data) and so on. >> >> It could save you a lot of time and money setting up a vzw/asbl if you >> could become a WG at OKFN Belgium. You can get one person of your WG in the >> board of the legal organisation and help making decisions from the OSM point >> of view. For the rest, you maintain your own budget, make your own decisions >> in the working group, and you can keep operating as OSM Belgium. I think the >> goals of our 2 initiatives are too close not to merge efforts :) >> > Much thanks Pieter. For me, your proposal makes much sense. > > I am loking forward to the reactions and comments of the other people who > want to move forward (Pierre P, Ben A, Julien F) > >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Pieter >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Pierre Parmentier >> <pierrecparment...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I order to progress with the registration of OSM-BE as an asbl/vzw, I >>> have: >>> >>> updated the draft for the statutes. (As the fr version is more detailed >>> than the nl version, I have been working on the first one.) >>> prepared a Draft for agreement of OSM-BE as local chapter with OSMF >>> >>> Please have a look at >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Chapter and comment. >>> >>> For the asbl/vzw we need : >>> >>> at least three stichtende leden/membres fondateurs >>> an address in Belgium >>> >>> Please confirm your interest to be included as a member. If you agree, I >>> am ready to go ahead with the procedures. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Pierre P. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-be mailing list >>> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> > > > > -- > Nicolas Pettiaux - +32 496 24 55 01 - http://rmll.info - http://lepacte.be > EuroSciPy 2013 co-chair http://www.euroscipy.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > -- Mark Van den Borre Hogestraat 16 3000 Leuven, België +32 486 961726 _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
