[Board] Fwd: request for initial funding

[Jody Garnett]

If we can assist any of our communities we will always, try to do so. Often
(especially on legal direction) we make use our partners and friends to get
an appropriate answer.

It is not a question on eligibility, but on communication. The sponsorship
suggestion is me personally trying to think of a way this can be handled at
arms length from a legal perspective. OSGeo board does not have, or ask
for, and representation at each local chapter - specifically so the can be
independent legally in each country. I would not want to mess that up by
establishing any kind of expectation.

This is in contrast to our projects, which do have a relationship, in the
form of project officer and AGM report .. and have an expectation of an
annual budget.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:32 PM <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> wrote:

> Hi Board,
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> Would this mean other local chapters are also eligible for having the
> legal costs of their incubation sponsored...? That might become a rather
> large financial burden on the .org....
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> Yours truly,
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> On 20/03/2018, 15:20, "Board on behalf of Jody Garnett" <
> board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is great news Dirk, congrats!
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> Can you put this on the agenda for the next board meeting please.
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> 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 :)
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> Jody Garnett
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> On 20 March 2018 at 13:01, Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com> wrote:
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> 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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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
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> Dirk
> OSGeo Europe
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