[Europe] Urgent: Status of [OSGeo Europe]

[Till Adams]

Hi,

I am not saying we have to kill the NGO ;-) -- but we have to care, that
Dirk does not remain stranded on the costs.

If there is a possibility, of course we should keep the NGO.


@Angelos - I think there is no possibility to cover eventually costs for
a certain (and restricted) time by OSGeo ?

Till


Am 09.09.21 um 10:24 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:17 AM Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
> <mailto:gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I think there is value in keeping the NGO:
>     I recently talked with ESA (there is a possibility for a
>     sponsorship) and it can only be done through an EU legal entity. I
>     assume, this would also be needed in other cases.
>
>
> This reminds me, the sponsoring of the European Commission for this
> year's FOSS4G in Argentina has been done thanks to the NGO based on
> Italy (GFOSS). Because they are going to be behind 2022 and the
> contract is for both years, it made sense that they did all the
> paperwork and received the transfer.
>
> They wouldn't have been able to sponsor us without an European entity.
> And we thought on European sponsors to help us act as legal bridge,
> but we didn't remember we have this. We should have remembered it!
>
> So... yes, it makes sense to have a legal entity in EU. If the
> relationship grows and becomes stronger, we may have more sponsoring
> coming from them. Or from similar entities that need a European based
> counterpart in OSGeo.
>
> I guess that may also cover expenses from keeping it open?
>
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