Hi Marc! On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:13:08 +0100, Marc Fournier wrote: > Excerpts from Luca Capello's message of Fri Feb 24 15:57:25 +0100 2012: >> [...] >> AFAIK no, but yesterday I forgot to say that at FOSDEM I was approached >> by Debian France, which is currently *not* a Debian Trusted Organization >> <http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9>, but it would like to >> become one. Thus, they asked me about a French version of the bylaws as >> a starting point for theirs. > > AFAIK the requirements to start an organization in France are not 100% the > same than in Switzerland. They will probably want to set up an "association > loi 1901", and it seems this type of organization needs to be declared to > the authorities if it plans to shuffle money around. This would be quite a > fundamental difference with the debian.ch organization. FYI, their association exists already: <http://france.debian.net/> L'Association Debian France est une association de droit local Alsace-Moselle inscrite au Registre des Associations auprès du Tribunal d'Instance de Colmar (68, Haut-Rhin) sous les références : Volume 60, Folio N° 89 en date du 25/09/2006 (publication légale : Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace N° 229 en date du 29/09/2006). > What I want to say is that we probably won't be able to share much of our > swiss bylaws (in a copy-paste sense). They can merely take inspiration from > them, for which an english version should be sufficient. > > We can also provide them with a loose french translation, if they don't > want to wait until a formal english translation is available (I can take > care of this translation if requested). As far as I understood, most of their interest was in how we define membership and not really in how the association is organized according to the laws. Anyway, I will send another email as soon as they will come back to us. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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