On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:35, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: > RE: HL7Klaus and Richard, > > Your conversation raises some interesting issues regarding the future of > OSHCA. In its current form OSHCA is not incorporated nor does it have any > formal governance....these were issues I brought up in the business meeting > in London. It also does not have money....just lots of people who share > the same vision and are willing to volunteer their time here and there.
We probaly should formally get registered somewhere as not-for-profit organization. Being international, it probably doesn't matter where we do so, and thus we could do it at minimal or no cost in whatever country supports not-for-profit organizations (Australia does not at all). To my best knowledge (if things haven't changed drastically in the past decade), in Germany you can register for next to no fees if you can prove that your organization is a)non-profit orientated and b) having goals that suit public interest. That way, we would be a more "formal" organizations without the need to go bureaucrazy. Regarding the money we incidentally might need (like this HL7 fee - I would be happy to "shout" a few hundred bucks where it makes sense) I'd rather suggest we rely on ad-hoc donations. Maintenance and administration ofregular funding is t just a pain in the bottom for an organization like ours. Horst
