<div dir="ltr"><div>Much thanks Glenn and Mark for the support.<br><br></div>I have discussed the case this sunday morning with Julien Fastré, and he is ready to go that direction too.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Please add your name to the wiki at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Chapter#People_interesting_in_founding_a_Belgian_chapter">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Chapter#People_interesting_in_founding_a_Belgian_chapter</a><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Nicolas<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/6 Glenn Plas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn@byte-consult.be" target="_blank">glenn@byte-consult.be</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi OSM,
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<div>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
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<div>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 :)</div>
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<div>Much thanks Pieter. For me, your proposal makes much
sense.<br>
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<div>I am loking forward to the reactions and comments of
the other people who want to move forward (Pierre P, Ben
A, Julien F) <br>
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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. <br>
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)<br>
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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<br>
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Good stuff!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Glenn<br>
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