[OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:06:24PM +0200, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> 
> Another very important reason to have these things in place!
> 
> I would very much like to be a local chapter to the OSMF. I'm not sure we
> would be able to do that when our activities would be done through OKFN BE?

I think we need to create our own vzw/asbl in any case.  The
question is wether we also want OKFN BE to be an umbrella
organisation for us if they want to do that, and what conditions
they have for that.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_organization


Kurt