Hi, We don't have all the answers yet. The only thing we know are the mails Pieter has sent to the list and some details that have been discussed in Brussels last week. But as I can see it at the moment:
The main benefit of this is that we will have a way of accepting sponsorships and host the website without someone doing this on his/her own name and without the overhead of creating our own association. We can still use osm-be as a 'brand' and we have an organization that can back us up doing this. Legally and administratively we will be better off. There are also other benefits because the OKFN is an internationally pretty well known organization. Something I would like to do but I don't know if this is possible is to become a local chapter of the OSMF. Things I have in mind we could do in the future (and this is just a start) with some basic funding: - Host more events/meetups. - Print flyers like I did at RMLL (https://github.com/xivk/osm-flyer-dutch) but then in higher numbers and at more events (and in french too :-) ) - Host the website of osm.be (still having difficulty transferring the domain name). - Attend things like the AGIV Trefdag. It's a conference full of professional GIS-people interested in OSM (who isn't). -> Program: http://www.agiv.be/gis/diensten/?artid=2111 -> ... but to have an OSM-stand we also need funding. They have an open-data track but it costs and arm and a leg to have a stand!! -> Next year there will probably be a speaker from OSM on the integration of CRAB (if we make some progress on this this year). (- Maybe host tiles for Belgium later on with our own style.) All of this is to increase the visibility and reputation of OpenStreetMap and hopefully this will lead to more participation and more mappers. Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote: > > 2013/10/11 Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> > > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:03:04PM +0200, Pieter Colpaert wrote: > > > > Can we have a vote (e.g. doodle?) for this? It's important that this > > > > person can indeed represent OSM under a consensus. > > > > > > Isn't that something for the vzw/asbl to decide when it exists? I > > > would assume a member of the board to represent us, like the > > > secretary or president. > > > > > > the idea is that the existing vzw/asbl that is OKFN open a new section > > that will be OSM-Be > > So basicly there will be no OSM-be, only OKFN? > > > In such a way, we do not need to create a new, specific association, but > > rather be part of a larger one that gets bigger, more representative of > > open data and open culture in Belgium and also takes part of the overhead > > (eg with accounting) in counterpart of asking a fair 5 % of our budget. > > > > As a project of OKFN, we (the Osm-Be de facto existing «association») > would > > get one board member. > > We are already a de facto association, so nothing will change? Or > will be somehow be able to represent OKFN-BE? > > > Kurt > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >
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