[OSM-talk-be] Association/Veriniging OpenStreetMap Belgium ? (very soon ?)

[Ben Laenen]

On Monday 15 October 2012 17:35:27 Julien Fastré wrote:
> I am sorry for the late answer, the week-end was full of activities.
> 
> I would also prefer a "belgian" assocation than a "regional one".

It all depends on what you want to do with the association. And so far it's 
been mostly about applying for a grant from the French Community. What are the 
other concrete plans you have. You need to know something about the 
association before founding it.

What does the French Community expect from such an association? Does it matter 
to them whether it's country based or community based? Are there constraints 
on what you are allowed to use the money on? You're probably have to file some 
dossier to apply for a grant, and it'll need to be filled things you're going 
to do if you get the money, and what amount of money you're looking for.

You're going to need the answer to that before you go any further.


> - we are quite few, we need to do a lot of work: I think we should
> gather our energy and, maybe later, thinks about splitting if necessary.
> We are to few for a split now - (I agree with Dennys on this idea)
> -  If we develop tools (servers, teaching of OSM, etc.), we may think
> that both tools will be needed in every part of Belgium.
> - it is still unclear about how to split: flemish/french ? What about
> brussels, bilingual... Walloon/Flanders/Brussels ? we need three
> associations... and three times the cost, etc.

Two would be enough, and the two can always co-operate for overlapping events. 
But as said, it all depends on the answers of the questions above.

> What are we doing now ?
> 
> - a meeting "in real life" to discuss about the avantadges /
> disadvantages of splitting ?
> - continue the discussion on the ML ?
> - continue the discussion on the wiki ?

Wiki is a bad place for discussion, ML much more preferred. Real life meeting 
would be necessary before actually founding the association, but more real 
life meetings may be preferred. But keep it on the ML for now, that goes a bit 
faster for the initial discussions and gets more input from more people.

Ben