[Europe] Resurrect legal entity? (andrea antonello)

[Peter Löwe]

Andrea, all,

here are my two cents on this:

Just as when we started the first incarnation of OSGeo Europe, I believe the motivation is still valid:

- Coordinating _all_ national/local OSGeo Chapters within the EU as a means to communicate with the EC would be very difficult and not very effective.
- ESA is just one european stakeholder, there are others which are relevant for OSGeo, such as GEANT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%89ANT), EGU (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU) and Zenodo/OpenAIRE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenodo)
- We need some kind of central communication and documentation hub to discuss and plan efforts on the european scale.
- OSGeo Europe v1.0 suffered from a lack of ressurces and the Pandemic. This doesn't mean that it was a bad idea or there is no need for OSGeo Europe v2.0.

Best,
Peter

<peter.loewe at gmx.de>


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> Dear Maria,
> thanks for bringing this up, even if all this really seems a nightmare. :-)
>
> Since it seems bad to just let possible fundings for the osgeo
> projects disappear without at least talking about it, I will start
> with some comments to see if there is really no interest in trying to
> find a solution (which might also involve not resurrecting the
> entity).
>
> Here we go:
> * talking to people at Foss4g I just got the feeling that most see no
> use in an Osgeo Europe entity. This might be one of the problems for
> not finding volunteers in the first place
> * one counterproposal was suggesting that the money coming from ESA
> should be redirected to a local chapter that would then organise
> community sprints or similar events with it. Not sure if that would be
> even possible.
> * I wonder if the involvement of ESA could attract other sponsors?
> Would this be something different from the previous times this has
> been tried? Something to start with?
>
> Just a few sparse thoughts to fill the void this email created.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrea
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:52 AM Mar?a 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,
> > Mar?a.
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