[meego-fi] Re: Forming an association
- From: Artem Marchenko <artem.marchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:10:51 +0300
Good to see it started, Timo!
Here are a couple of bits from me.
>
> Before calling the founding meeting we need some input for at least the
> following things:
> - What is the purpose of the association?
A real goal for most of the meetup participants seems to go along the lines "it
would be cool to make something cool using some cool technology" with some
variations towards/against money and open/closed source.
I guess formally it would sound as something like "we strive to support
innovation on the cutting edge technologies in the Tampere region". Maybe with
being clear a little more on that it is mostly about software.
Not sure if many people would want to support exactly new businesses/startups
being built, however, I know that we've got plenty of people who want open
source to succeed. Could one of the goals be then about helping to
create/invent sustainable businesses that are based on open source
software/hardware in this way or another.
>
> - How the association raises it's funds?
>
> At least donations, support membership fees, selling goods and services, etc.
> Basically we need to list everything we come up with into the association's
> rules.
We can organize paid conferences. Selling services directly may be a little
wrong for a non-commercial association, but being an agent for its members may
sound OK. Then members-on-hire can pay back by higher membership fees or some
kind of agent fee. Or just by convincing their dayjob managers and clients to
sponsor the association.
>
> - Something else.
As well as having a "real" long-term goal and vision, it would be cool to have
something like close, starting goal from scratch. Smaller short-term goal could
help to validate the vision. As just an example such a goal could be to set up
a permanent weekly club on helping people to get over N9 issues or to set up a
workshop where potential members will come up with the activities to pursue.
Cheers,
Artem.
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