[Europe] Resurrect legal entity?

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Dear all,

I think this approach from ESA clearly shows the need for a pan-European entity. That and also FOSS4G-Europe, which should possibly take place in 2024.

I think we should reply to Claudia with a minimum budget to keep the entity going:

- coorporate fees in Belgium
- organising an yearly code sprint
- organising/guiding FOSS4G-Europe (next one possibly in 2024)
- coordinate development of features/projects relevant for ESA

This opportunity should not be missed, imho.

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Luís

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On Friday, August 26th, 2022 at 11:52 AM, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> 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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