Some comments on the minutes wrt to the association:
- I only allowed for voting members in my proposal. The concept of non-voting members makes more sense say in a football club or similar, were there is a clear difference between members that are actually active involved in the game, and pure spectators. I'm open to creating a non-voting "sponsor" class of members, but if we set a different level of membership dues for members that are legal entities, I believe that would be enough.
- membership fees: I do support the idea that the mappers have already supported the project enough (to the tune of 1000s if not tens of 1000s francs in time) and should not have to pay more than a symbolic sum to participate officially in an OSM organisation. Further there will, at least for the immediate future, be no automatic membership in the OSMF. We will however immediately apply to be the Swiss local chapter of the OSMF. I've already discussed this with Henk Hoff and there don't seem to be any issues, it is however not clear in which way the local chapters will be able to influence the direction of the OSMF, so for now, if you want to be active in the OSMF you will have to do so directly.
- in general we will have to come to a conclusion how active the association should be. Do we want a pro-active organisation that actively markets OSM, starts projects and organize events, or do we rather want a simple supporting body that can organize some infrastructure and provide legal protection for members running services based on OSM. The former will requires a lot more financial and time commitments than the later, which IMHO fits better to OSM.
SImon
Am 03.07.2011 19:14, schrieb yvecai:
Hi All, Minutes of our yesterday meeting are on the wiki.
Salut a tous, Le résumé de notre rencontre d'hier est sur le wiki, n'hésitez pas à compléter!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rencontre_Vaudoise_02_juillet_2011
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