Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:12:40PM +0200, Pierre Parmentier 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.) >-

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
2013/10/5 Gilbert Hersschens > I agree with Nicolas. OFKN needs to have convincing arguments. Keep in > mind that we are a very small team and just starting to get ourselves more > organized. My concern is that becoming part of a larger organization at > this point may be like trying to run befor

[OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Gilbert Hersschens
I agree with Nicolas. OFKN needs to have convincing arguments. Keep in mind that we are a very small team and just starting to get ourselves more organized. My concern is that becoming part of a larger organization at this point may be like trying to run before we can walk. But let's see what Piete

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
2013/10/5 Marc Gemis > As far as I understood the main reasons where > > * the domain name should belong to a group of people (an organization) > not an individual > indeed > * some organizations (e.g. Crib) are willing to donate money to an > organization, but not to individuals. This money co

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Marc Gemis
As far as I understood the main reasons where * the domain name should belong to a group of people (an organization) not an individual * some organizations (e.g. Crib) are willing to donate money to an organization, but not to individuals. This money could be used to pay for the domain name, serve

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Ben Abelshausen
It's just to have a legal structure in place to be able to pay for the web hosting of the osm.be website, print flyers and things like that. I have myself payed for some of these things in the past (not a lot fortunately) and it would be more convenient this way. Then there was another reason: peo

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 04 October 2013 19:12:40 Pierre Parmentier wrote: > I order to progress with the registration of OSM-BE as an asbl/vzw, I have: Again, I'm interested to see the reasons behind the decision to become a vzw/asbl. What are its short term and long term goals? Has it been decided where the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] fietspad of niet

2013-10-05 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 04 October 2013 15:39:15 Wouter Hamelinck wrote: > Ik geef toe dat rendering een deel van de oorzaak is, maar het daartoe > herleiden is wat te simpel. > > Naar mijn mening (warning: just an opinion) ligt de nadruk nu te veel > op toegangsrestricties. Dit is perfect logisch in Engeland (

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

2013-10-05 Thread Pieter Colpaert
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