[EU] Chapter creation as NGO

[Till Adams]

I guess for now, there will be no income for the start, perhaps some
donations, perhaps the maintaining of some OSGeo money (as mentioned
before).

I think we have to discuss, what happens with FOSS4G-EU, which costs but
also generates money and may be a source of income, at least to cover
running costs for accountancy (I like Marcs idea, because this makes
this finacial part very transparent) we have.
But this could be an issue we can discuss on a meeting at this years
foss4g-eu ?

In Germany FOSSGIS maintains the income from our yearly FOSSGIS
conference, pays for code sprints and some project-related servers and
also covers potential losses a FOSSGIS might have in some years.

Till


Am 11.01.2017 um 11:23 schrieb Ari Jolma:
> 11.01.2017, 12:04, María Arias de Reyna kirjoitti:
>> Then you can count with me as a member.
>>
>> Maybe we should make a comparison between a few countries to see which
>> one fits better? Having fixed yearly prices as in The Netherlands is
>> fine for me, but it is best if there is none :)
>
> You can count me also as a founding member if needed.
>
> The NL prices seem high. For us it was 50 € for registration (we wrote
> our bylaws ourselves) and we don't need to report yearly, so no cost.
> We do need to keep the books but it is not a big job if there are not
> much transactions and can be done by a volunteer. If we want a
> professional accountant even then that's not very expensive, perhaps a
> few hundred per year. That depends of course and I have only limited
> experience.
>
> What would the source of income for OSGeo EU be? The FOSS4G Europe?
> Would it assume the financial risk? What would it use its money for?
> Code sprints etc? What would the yearly turnover be, approximately?
> Maybe 10 000?
>
> Ari
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Dirk Frigne
>> <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com> wrote:
>>> This is not necessary.
>>> I think it should be great if we have different nationalities as
>>> founding members.
>>>
>>> The only things which were changed to the Belgium law, is to build in
>>> more transparency. This was needed to avoid fraude and misuse.
>>>
>>>
>>> The law is made especially to promote the freedom to create
>>> non-for-profit organsitaions.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think this suits very well what we want to do with OSGeo.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dirk.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11-01-17 10:57, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Dirk Frigne
>>>> <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com> wrote:
>>>>> I think we need as a minimum 3 founding members.
>>>> Just to clarify: 3 founding members from Belgium. Right?
>>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>
>>>
>>> ir. Dirk Frigne
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>>>
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