* Guido Arnold guido@fsfe.org [2014-09-16 01:29:00 +0200]:
It is organized by the Finnish Government (cabinet office). The main focus is open data, but COSS (the local FSFE in Finland) is one of the
I've come across COSS quite frequently. How come COSS is not listed as an associate organisation [1]?
It's not just because the "OS" in the name?
No, that was not the reason. The reason was that we did not actively try to get new associates, as we did not have a good vision how to work with those organisations.
But beside that “Open Source” in the name of the organisation was a no-go in the past.
For the future, we need to decide if we want to have some organisation with whom we have such a long term relationship as associates, or if we we work with others on a case by case basis and depending on the topics.
If we choose to have associates in future: How to remove organisations (if they are inactive, or changing their way of work), how to add new ones (e.g. just after we already did more projects together in the past).
From my point of view we have to work closer with other organisations in future, but I am not yet sure the associates program, is the best way to do so. I would like tackle this, after we clarified our own mission statement, when we have to think about our structure and how that fits our mission.
Regards, Matthias