[EU] Chapter creation as NGO

[Marc Vloemans]

Hi Ari,
In my opinion,
'Members', sponsors and the like would be better served if the books (even the small ones) would be checked and validated by an external and neutral accountant.

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 11 jan. 2017 om 11:23 heeft Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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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