[Europe] Resurrect legal entity?

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi!

I know Claudia has already talked to some of you at the FOSS4G.  Looks like
the ESA may be interested in throwing money and resources in OSGeo's
direction to help develop geospatial FOSS.

They need an European entity for this. Oops. I told her why we just closed
our legal entity. She understood and asked me how much money would make
resurrecting the legal entity worth it. Not promising anything, this is
very early stages, but to have a reference.

If we decide this is a good opportunity to do it, we would need not only
volunteers to organize and help redirect the money *actively*,  but also
look carefully where we can and should open the association, money and
legally wise. Probably we should draft already a plan to help ESA decide.

If not, she is looking for other ways to help us, always inside Europe.
Sponsoring events is the obvious answer, but do we have other needs or
opportunities? Some local chapters have legal entities but splitting
resources through them may be too fine granular and  lot of bureaucracy.

Cheers,
María.
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