[meego-fi] Re: Forming an association
- From: Carol Chen <cybette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:57:17 +0300
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.
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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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