Hi! On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 08:38, Ian McNicoll <Ian.McNicoll at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > So, my question back, is > "What sort of support would you like to see, given that significant > central resourcing is not likely in the short term?" [...] > Would it be sufficient for the Foundation to give 'official status' to > regional affiliates e.g. openEHR Japan, or are there other practical > suggestions as to how best to support regional affiliates?
I would guess that an 'official status' recognition and thus links in online (and some offline) information resources would be a major thing, more imoportant than funding, especially if this also allowed the regional organisation to arrange "official" openEHR gatherings/conferences etc. It would be reasonable if the local organisation could keep money left over from such (possibly partly commercially sponsored) gatherings/conferences. Of course it would be reasonable if the foundation had some requirements on official local organisations, like having: - open membership - statutes matching regional democratic traditions and the openEHR goals (internal governance rules or whatever the swedish word "stadgar" should be translated to) - proper accounting and audit - a duty to have a dialogue with the central openEHR foundation regarding plans involving using the openEHR tradmark for events etc - ...probably more... For local organisations I think bottom up comunity driven governance with elected boards etc is the only way to go, not top-down. Best regards, Erik Sundvall erik.sundvall at liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/? Tel: +46-13-286733
