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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have no idea what the ramifications of doing this are on the corporate body that is OSGeo, but I suspect it can create headaches for us. I'll find out.<BR>
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Gary<BR>
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From: Arnulf Christl [<A HREF="mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de">mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de</A>]<BR>
Sent: Sun 8/20/2006 1:54 AM<BR>
To: board@board.osgeo.org; fundraising@fundraising.osgeo.org<BR>
Cc: discuss-de@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org; brassat@geo-consortium.de<BR>
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] German OSGeo Chapter formation, bank account<BR>
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Hello,<BR>
the German FOSSGIS group has organized a few conferences starting with 20<BR>
and growing to 80, 180 and 300 participants in the past years. An informal<BR>
group started to organize funding and sponsoring. It consolidated into an<BR>
organizing committee:<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Organisationsteam_06">http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Organisationsteam_06</A><BR>
You will also find most of these people in the German OSGeo Local Chapter<BR>
member list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Deutsch#Mitgliederliste">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Deutsch#Mitgliederliste</A><BR>
<BR>
We ended up with a small plus in 2006 - just a few thousand Euros (some of<BR>
the Where 2.0 OSGeo t-shirts were funded with that money).<BR>
The FOSSGIS team voted to join efforts with the OSGeo Foundation and<BR>
planned to donate the money to OSGeo. But international transaction fees<BR>
are a nuisance. Therefore the German Local Chapter requests for a<BR>
dedicated (Germany based) banking account.<BR>
<BR>
Currently the money is on the bank account of the Geo-Consortium but we<BR>
want to move it to a dedicated spearate account at the latest by the end<BR>
of our fiscal year, the sooner the better as we plan to spend some money<BR>
on the Open Source Park at the Intergeo 2006:<BR>
<A HREF="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Intergeo_2006">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Intergeo_2006</A><BR>
<BR>
All transactions will then be public and we can be as transparent as we<BR>
would like to be. What kind of fomral entity do we need to set up and get<BR>
approved by OSGeo to do that?<BR>
<BR>
Torsten Brassat consented to continue doing the paperwork involved for the<BR>
time being.<BR>
<BR>
I motion to appoint Torsten Brassat as treasurer of the German Local<BR>
Chapter banking account (formally he would be a sub-treasurer of Gary?).<BR>
<BR>
What else do we need to do?<BR>
<BR>
Best regards,<BR>
Arnulf.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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