[Europe] Resurrect legal entity

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Hi Codrina,

I welcome this initiative, and hereby raise my hand to take part, within my limited availability.

Is the legal entity registered in Brussels fully closed? Regarding the new legal entity, what form would it take? Non-for-profit? Foundation? The important thing is to fit it within a tax-free framework.

Regards.

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Luís


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On Friday, March 17th, 2023 at 3:26 PM, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org> wrote:


> Hi, all,
> 
> In the last past months, I’ve been interacting both with ESA and the European Commission with
> various occasions and it has become obvious to me that there is tangible interest from both to
> formally connect to OSGeo, through a European entity. At the beginning of the year, I’ve approached
> the board of the OSGeo EU to inquiry of the legal status of the initial NGO. Because the chain of
> signatures to terminate was never completed, the Belgian NGO is dormant. However, given that this is
> an action initiated in August 2022 and still not done, I believe at this point that it is wiser to
> find volunteers that are willing to take the challenge to establish and to run a legal entity for
> OSGeo Europe Local Chapter. The intro, missions and objectives written in the OSGeo Europe wiki page
> make perfect sense to me https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe, we just need to have a more flexible
> and responsive structure.
> 
> To make everyone’s life easier, it is highly advisable that this NGO be established in an EU and ESA
> member country.
> 
> So, please share your thoughts on this in the following days/week. There is a time constrain because
> the European Commission is keen in having a formal connection to OSGeo Europe to support also
> financially both the FOSS4G 2023 in Kosovo, as well as FOSS4G Europe 2024.
> 
> 
> Cheers from Bucharest,
> Codrina
> 
> P.S. 1 All that being said, I’d like to share my - together with the geo-spatial.org people -
> availability to take on the legal formation of the OSGeo Europe Local Chapter in Romania.
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