[intl-discuss] OSGeo for Non Profit Org

[Frans Thamura]

meruvian is a non profit organization, legal. and we have several
revenue model, in indonesia we called it "koperasi" a small unit to
get funding, by training, do seminar, and a lot of activity, as a sub
unit of course

and i can show the legal entity that all the money must be return back
to social program, legally under goverment regulatiion, and if
meruvian is closed, all the money must be transfer to the same entity
(foundation).

i hear tis is 203(5) in USA,

we provide FREE training, and also "paid" seminary for our revenue
model, but hope fully next month we will try to training 1000 person
for FREE, all same course based on funding.

and we also help goverment to have open curriculum, so anyone can
learn (Java and Linux mostly), and we translte Eclipse education
material and distributed it FREE-ly.

my experience, we need global network to promote something, esp
OpenSource which we focusing.


there is my slide, may be anyone interest to learn

http://www.slideshare.net/flatburger

Frans



On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tyler,
> My understanding is that Meruvian is an organisation dedicated to training
> software developers, with a strong emphasis on Open Source. It doesn't have
> a specific package that he is looking for.
>
> What OSGeo provides is:
> 1. Charter members (limited number of individuals who are voted in annually,
> based on merit)
>
> 2. General members. I'm not sure if this is an official role. Anyone can
> call them self a member, and you gain respect from the community by helping
> and being recognised.
>
> 3. Board, elected by the charter members.
>
> 4. Supporting organisations. Organisations which are listed as supporting
> some of the OSGeo packages. Any organisation can add them self to this list.
>
> 5. Sponsor. Organisations which sponsor OSGeo.
>
> I think 4. or 5. would be the closest category for what you are looking for
>
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> Hi Frans,
>> I assume you mean that you would like to apply to have Meruvian as an
>> OSGeo project.  There are several documents at the bottom of this page that
>> should help you understand the "incubation" process:
>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
>>
>> If it doesn't answer all your questions, let me know, or join the
>> Incubator mailing list and ask.
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator
>>
>> Is that what you were looking for?
>> Tyler
>>
>> On 19-Apr-09, at 5:19 PM, Frans Thamura wrote:
>>
>>> hi all
>>>
>>> i did discussion with Cameron dan Geoff , and i think i am interesting
>>> to make meruvian more "official" as OSGeo memebership
>>>
>>> can anyone give the URL?
>>>
>>> is it FREE?
>>>
>>> right now, we are applying for Eclipse membership, because one of our
>>> program is Java.
>>>
>>> http://www.eclipse.org/membership/become_a_member/membershipProcess.php
>>>
>>>
>>> i think we will become more stronger, and OSGeo movement will be more
>>> faster in this country (Indonesia) with this program
>>>
>>>
>>> we need the "global" working group to make the country can adopt your
>>> apps here, there is "feodal" model in our education program and we
>>> need it.
>>
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