Much thanks Glenn and Mark for the support.

I have discussed the case this sunday morning with Julien Fastré, and he is
ready to go that direction too.

Now, we need to get at least 20 people to be interested in becoming members
of the Belgian OSM chapter to follow the rules of the OSM Foundation.

Please add your name to the wiki at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Chapter#People_interesting_in_founding_a_Belgian_chapter

Regards

Nicolas

2013/10/6 Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be>

>  On 2013-10-06 09:12, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
>
>  2013/10/5 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpa...@okfn.org>
>
>> Hi OSM,
>>
>>  With Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium vzw we are building an umbrella
>> organisation for Open Knowledge in Belgium. Creative Commons Belgium is a
>> working group, the iRail initiative has become a working group (Open
>> Transport), we have people working on open source software for open data
>> (We Open Data) and so on.
>>
>>  It could save you a lot of time and money setting up a vzw/asbl if you
>> could become a WG at OKFN Belgium. You can get one person of your WG in the
>> board of the legal organisation and help making decisions from the OSM
>> point of view. For the rest, you maintain your own budget, make your own
>> decisions in the working group, and you can keep operating as OSM Belgium.
>> I think the goals of our 2 initiatives are too close not to merge efforts :)
>>
>>   Much thanks Pieter. For me, your proposal makes much sense.
>
>  I am loking forward to the reactions and comments of the other people
> who want to move forward (Pierre P, Ben A, Julien F)
>
>
> I'm a fan of this evolution, I think it's a great idea.   I don't think it
> really matters where the adress is located, most of us aren't as dumb to
> look at language borders.    I never look at the address of a VZW/ASBL to
> make up my mind about it.    I do think we need to make sure 'we' won't be
> making too much expenses until the chosen business model proves it's
> working.
> I've said it before in the past here :  my company is ready to donate
> resources, we use OSM data every second of the day.   A VZW/ASBL would make
> that donation a tad easier to do (and receive a decent paper trail for our
> friends at the tax office)
>
> So please keep the list informed, especially of the pending needs to get
> this to happen... if something is missing:  share and thou shall receive :P
>
> Good stuff!
>
> Glenn
>



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