[Europe] Resurrect legal entity?

[Dirk Frigne]

Hi Maria,

The closing of the current entity is not yet completly finished.
I received our general meeting documents back from the court. They 
didn't accept the signatures.
The signatures should be legally binding. We should, or sign the 
documents on an original copy, or we should use digital signatures.

I will send the documents later today again for digital signing.

Regards,

Dirk

On 26/08/2022 11:52, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
> 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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