[Europe] Resurrect legal entity

[Tõnis Kärdi]

Codrina,

I would be interested in helping out with this endeavour.


All the best,

Tõnis

On 17.03.23 16:26, Codrina Maria Ilie wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> In the last past months, I’ve been interacting both with ESA and the 
> European Commission with various occasions and it has become obvious 
> to me that there is tangible interest from both to formally connect to 
> OSGeo, through a European entity. At the beginning of the year, I’ve 
> approached the board of the OSGeo EU to inquiry of the legal status of 
> the initial NGO. Because the chain of signatures to terminate was 
> never completed, the Belgian NGO is dormant. However, given that this 
> is an action initiated in August 2022 and still not done, I believe at 
> this point that it is wiser to find volunteers that are willing to 
> take the challenge to establish and to run a legal entity for OSGeo 
> Europe Local Chapter. The intro, missions and objectives written in 
> the OSGeo Europe wiki page make perfect sense to me 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe, we just need to have a more 
> flexible and responsive structure.
>
> To make everyone’s life easier, it is highly advisable that this NGO 
> be established in an EU and ESA member country.
>
> So, please share your thoughts on this in the following days/week. 
> There is a time constrain because the European Commission is keen in 
> having a formal connection to OSGeo Europe to support also financially 
> both the FOSS4G 2023 in Kosovo, as well as FOSS4G Europe 2024.
>
>
> Cheers from Bucharest,
> Codrina
>
> P.S. 1 All that being said, I’d like to share my - together with the 
> geo-spatial.org people - availability to take on the legal formation 
> of the OSGeo Europe Local Chapter in Romania.
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