It is obvious you had not been around the community and don't know what
you're talking about. The idea to ressurrect OSHCA was mooted in
November 2005 just before the WSIS in Tunis. This protem committee was
formed earlier this month and announced to the community on 28/3/2006 in
my e-mail titled "Important annoucement and oshca update". The mandate
to ressurrect OSHCA was given in January 2006.
Molly
Richard Schilling wrote:
>The protem committee taking four years to get this far is a pretty clear
>indication that they've undermined themselves.
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>>I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the
>>decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to
>>resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I
>>don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others,
>>Tim Cook, Bhaskar etc had expressed earlier there can be
>>chapters/branches etc formed later.
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>>The discussions and sentiments expressed here will certainly be taken
>>into consideration by the protem committee. I would like to appeal to
>>you not to complicate the matter further otherwise your intentions may
>>be misconstrued. Please let me complete my job and my responsibility to
>>the community.
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>>I did not think that my intention to update the community with
>>information would lead to a kind of upstaging the protem committee's
>>efforts. If you proceed to register OSHCA it will be tantamount to
>>acting in bad faith, as I had been negotiating with Brian on behalf of
>>the community.
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>>>Since OSCHA is an internationl body we can register siultaneously, and
>>>choose the base to be anywhere.
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>>>Is the incorporation in Malaysia going to be doing business or just
>>>representing FOSS industry interests? Depending on the answer to that
>>>here are our choices here in the U.S. that I can pursue now:
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>>>Trade association — Definition.
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>>> trade associations don't "do business" but exist to exert
>>> influence on a market. This seems to me the best fit for OSCHA
>>> if the organization does not intend to own things like
>>> copyrighted software. Gets around the international
>>> intellectual property issues on software for OSCHA
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>>> "Trade association," as that term is used here
>>> means a membership organization of persons engaging in a similar
>>> or related line of commerce, organized to promote and improve
>>> business conditions in that line of commerce and not to engage
>>> in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit
>>> and for which no part of net earnings inures to the benefit of
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>>> and services) and can also have an influencing effect.
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>>> corporation for purposes other than generating a profit, and in
>>> which no part of the organization's income is distributed to its
>>> directors or officers. Nonprofits are formed pursuant to state
>>> law, often under the Revised Model Non-Profit Corporation Act
>>> (1986). A nonprofit can be a church or church association,
>>> school, charity, medical provider, legal aid society, volunteer
>>> service organization, professional association, research
>>> institute, museum, or in some cases a sports association. Being
>>> formed with the state as a nonprofit corporation does not
>>> automatically provide an organization with tax-exempt status.
>>> Nonprofits must apply for tax-exempt status at the federal and
>>> sometimes at the state level.
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