2013/10/11 Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:03:04PM +0200, Pieter Colpaert wrote: > > Can we have a vote (e.g. doodle?) for this? It's important that this > > person can indeed represent OSM under a consensus. > > Isn't that something for the vzw/asbl to decide when it exists? I > would assume a member of the board to represent us, like the > secretary or president. > > the idea is that the existing vzw/asbl that is OKFN open a new section that will be OSM-Be
In such a way, we do not need to create a new, specific association, but rather be part of a larger one that gets bigger, more representative of open data and open culture in Belgium and also takes part of the overhead (eg with accounting) in counterpart of asking a fair 5 % of our budget. As a project of OKFN, we (the Osm-Be de facto existing «association») would get one board member. My understanding of Pieter's proposal is that we (the active members of this list) remain organized as we are, but would gain some official status. We can create formal rules or go on as we peacefully did so far, without more burden. I choose for simplicity and trust Ben as our official representative inside OKFN. For me, we can still have some other representatives, people who could speak for the Osm-Be community of mappers (eg Julien when he meets the firefighters), on a non official but very efficient way. Provided we work nicely together as we did, nobody cares that we have many active representatives. Do you share such a view ? I support Ben for being OSM-Be official representative at OKFN board. I trust him completely for what I have seen of him. Furthermore, Ben lives in Gent, which will ease the matters and allows easier physical meetings with OKFN if needed Regards, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux - +32 496 24 55 01 - http://rmll.info - http://lepacte.be EuroSciPy 2013 co-chair http://www.euroscipy.org/
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