Hi Rufus, On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 2009/11/24 Claudia Mueller-Birn <[email protected]>: >> Hi Rufus, >> >> Thanks for your comments. I just had a look again on the Website, and I am >> going to propose some improvements ... not tonight ...But another quick >> question about the general organizational structure of OKF. At the moment >> the OKFoundation is working in the UK, but is there any possibility to, well >> how I name it, have subsidiaries, oh yes, like Wikipedia? In every country >> is another non-profit. Maybe it make sense just because of fund-raising... >> ?!?! >> >> What do you think? > > Good question and this is something there has already been some > thought about as we have recently had interest in setting up an OKF > Germany chapter. > > We already have people involved in what we do from several different > places around the world and many of our projects being "online" are > clearly international. At the same time it is the UK where we are > officially registered as an entity and it clearly makes sense to have > associated "subsidiaries" or "chapters" in other countries. > > So the answer is: yes there is very much a possibility of having > official OKF chapters in other countries (e.g. OKF Germany or OKF USA > or ...) -- in fact not only is this a possibility but it would be a > very welcome development! Okay, I'll keep it in mind. I'll bring this topic back on the table. At the moment, other things seem to be more important :-) As usual, I was just curious... a spontaneous thought in my mind.... Thank you anyway. > Rufus :::claudia _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
