[meego-fi] Re: Forming an association
- From: Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:43:21 +0300
I made a draft for the rules (only in finnish currently)
available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L77Gr-69Ro4NCA4riA9IJRGPpZJMoMDmqCQrnpJLcoI/edit?hl=en_US
-Timo
2011/8/18 <timop.harkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Afaik for mnfi to be a member it would have to be an association or some
> other juridical instance of it's own. As I see it we simply state the
> network meetings are activities that devaamo arranges. This way the network
> stuff would pretty much stay as they are.
>
> -Timo
>
> Carol Chen kirjoitti Thu Aug 18 16:57:17 2011:
> One thing I'm not very clear about (don't have experience with such
> associations). So will MNFI be a member of Devaamo? Will Devaamo solicit
> sponsorship for its members or is it up to MNFI? When sponsorship is
> obtained, the money goes to Devaamo and MNFI requests for it?
>
> -CC.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Carol Chen
> cybette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Community Manager, MeeGo Network Finland (MNFI)
> Organizer, Tampere MeeGo Network (TMN)
> Local Device Program (LDP) Manager
> http://meegonetwork.fi
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Artem Marchenko <
> artem.marchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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