Hello,
Thanks Simon for this proposal. Unfortunately, I can't be there on the 20th in Berne (I'll be there the day before).
As a suggestion, I would like to invite any volunteer who will attend this meeting to have a look at the french "association" founded by october 2011. Even if there's in France another legal basis for "association", it gives a good idea of what can be put in the Bylaws.
You will find here bylaws and others ressources (in French): http://openstreetmap.fr/asso They also have kinds of "working group" about "technical issue", "communication", "international relations" and "territories", see here : http://openstreetmap.fr/gt
Hope it helps for the discussion next month in Berne !
Concerning a name, I would suggest something simple and straigthforward like "OpenStreetMap Switzerland". KISS... It may help for communication purposes.
Xavier
De : Simon Poole simon@poole.ch A : Openstreetmap Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra talk-ch@openstreetmap.ch Date : 16.05.2012 15:47 Objet : [talk-ch] Swiss OpenStreetMap Association (founding meeting) Envoyé par : talk-ch-bounces@openstreetmap.ch
A number of you may remember the discussion about founding a Swiss OpenStreetMap association from last year, at the time I didn't follow up on the idea due to many other OSM related activities and due to the fact that nobody volunteered a meeting room.
Since the underlying motivation for creating such an organisation haven't changed and we (as in the Swiss OSM community) will have a presence at the exhibition part of GEOsummit 2012 (www.geosummit.ch) in Berne, I propose to have a founding meeting over lunch on June the 20th in Berne. Venue to be determined, but either in a restaurant in the exhibition buildings or nearby.
We have a limited number of free exhibition entrance tickets available that will be available on a first come first serve base to members of the community that want to participate in the meeting.
If you want to come, please add your name here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Swiss_OSM_Association
I will be updating the draft bylaws with some of the input from the discussion over the next couple of days. One major point missing is a good name, suggestions are welcome!
Simon
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