[Board] Fwd: request for initial funding

[Jody Garnett]

That is great news Dirk, congrats!

Can you put this on the agenda for the next board meeting please.

I think it would be wise to handle this request as a sponsorship, so there
is no direct legal relationship. After all until you have legal advice it
is hard to know what we are allowed to do :)

--
Jody Garnett

On 20 March 2018 at 13:01, Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com> wrote:

> Dear board,
>
> I changed my OSGeo email adres in dirk at osgeo.org.
> That is the reason that my previous mail (in attachement) was rejected.
> Please accept this attachement as my formal request.
>
> Best regards,
> Dirk.
>
>
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> From: Dirk Frigne <dirk at osgeo.org>
> To: "board at lists.osgeo.org" <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: "eu at lists.osgeo.org" <eu at lists.osgeo.org>, "marcvloemans1 at gmail.com" <
> marcvloemans1 at gmail.com>
> Bcc:
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:59:40 +0100
> Subject: request for initial funding
> As you know, OSGeo Europe is now an official registered as a non for
> profit organisation.
> The coordinates are the following:
>
> OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL - EUROPE
> OSGeo - Europe
> Bank account:
> BIC ARSPBE22
> BE47 9731 8951 3580
>
> organisation nr:BE 0689915666
> Date of birth: 20-07-2017
>
> With this bank-account we can transfer money to any other European bank
> account free of charge. This can be interesting to exchange OSGeo money
> between the different local chapters in the European union.
> As a non-for profit organisation we are held to very strict rules. The
> money should be used for non commercial use. Activism falls under these
> rules.
>
> We decided with the founding members to leave OSGeo free for members
> (whish are individuals). We are discussing how the organisation should
> be funded and what activities we want to support. (FOSS4G Europe is one
> of them), but the first priorities is setting up the organisational
> structure. In the meantime I had some costs involved in  creating this
> organisation.
> These cost involve:
>
> - some legal advice for starting an 'international' European organisation.
> - the cost for the registration
>
> I also want to settle an agreement with the tax administration to avoid
> VAT. For this I will also need some legal advise to talk the same
> language as the agents I have to negotiate with.
>
> To be able to cover these first costs I have a request to OSGeo.org if
> they could provide our local chapter with some initial seeding money, in
> attendance we can establish a self-funding initiative.
>
> 2000 Euro should be sufficient for these first responsibilities.
>
> If you think this is an appropriate request, I would be gratefull if you
> could transfer the money on our bankaccount so we can pay our short term
> debts. Thanks in advance for considering.
> --
> Dirk
> OSGeo Europe
>
>
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