Hi, I live in Montreal too.
It would be great if the Quebec leadership can launch an ONBL and registering it for charitable status for FSFC. > Can we organize a meeting for introductions of active members and to > figure out where to go next? Im ready for it. Regards, Michael On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Fabian Rodriguez <[email protected]>wrote: > Le 09/26/2011 10:21 PM, Christopher Hart a écrit : > > Hi from Montreal, > > > > I would like to help with incorporating FSFC as a non-profit and > > registering it for charitable status. > > > > After reading the archives I see there has been some talk about this > > years ago. I also see there was some back and forth about the > > constitution and mission. > > > > About whether there should be an organization at all: it's not obvious > > to me which charitable groups in Canada do anything like what the FSF > > does in the US. I saw a post on the list suggesting to go through > > Creative Commons Canada, but that may not be ideal > > [ > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F > ]. > > > > As for specific initiatives, I think the first baby step is to get > > incorporated and registered to accept charitable donations. Do you > > think the incorporation documents and charitable status registration > > will require lots of details on the mission? I have only done this > > kind of thing for regular corporations which only need vague or high > > level constitutions. > > > > Either way, these seem to be administrative details. If anyone knows > > of significant roadblocks please let us know about them. > > > > Can we organize a meeting for introductions of active members and to > > figure out where to go next? > > > > Thanks! Eagerly, > > > > Chris > > > > Hi from Montreal :) > > I've put some effort in keeping my wiki page at LibrePlanet updated: > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab > > Perhaps a good start would be to have all members on this list update > theirs and post it as introduction ? > > In Quebec province I would suggest looking at what the following two > groups/associations are doing: > http://www.facil.qc.ca > http://www.apell-quebec.ca/ > > Elsewhere in Canada a good start may be contacting the people that > participated in SFD 2011 and also the organizations I tried to get > interested in Software Freedom Day (check the "Invitations" link at the > end): > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada > > I believe the current need in Canada is to properly federate and > organize, then coordinate those orgs and people that can help with FLOSS > advocacy, training, implementation, etc. In Quebec we got a head start, > but getting through other provinces will take probably take some time > (and lots of effort). > > Last time something vaguely similar happened was Linux.ca and it's > pretty inactive/dead now. > > I invited people in communities I am part of (FACIL, Ubuntu QC, my > social networks) to subscribe here this morning, hopefully others will > come. > > You can follow me at: > http://identi.ca/magcifab > https://joindiaspora.com/u/magicfab (RSS: > https://joindiaspora.com/public/magicfab.atom) > > Cheers, > > Fabian Rodriguez > Montreal, QC > http://www.legoudulibre.com > > > > -- > -- > Fabián Rodríguez > > > _______________________________________________ > fsfc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfc-discuss >
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