On 11 sept. 05, at 17:33, Brad Fuller wrote:


> stéphane ducasse wrote:
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>>> Did I miss it, or was there a link that describes the   
>>> organizational structure?
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>> Yes there is the core: the guys doing something me marcus, noury,   
>> goran...
>> We will consolidate that in the future.
>> Then they are the wise that the core can consult on big decisions   
>> (but I'm not sure they care).
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> I got that, I did read the site. I wanted to know the legal  
> structure. Sorry, I wasn't clear about that.
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>>> Is it a registered non-profit organization?
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>> ESUG www.esug.org is a french non-profit 1901 organization. I'm   
>> president of ESUG and noury the treasurer.
>> ESUG organizes the Smalltalk Conference and all kind of actions  
>> to  promote Smalltalk (books sent in universities,
>> support people to go to conference, sponsored Squeak.de,  
>> sponsored  SqueakFoundation).
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> Oh.... so, SqueakFoundation is not an independent organization, but  
> a group within ESUG. That's not clear. I understood that ESUG was  
> providing website hosting and contributed 2000Euros only to get the  
> SqueakFoundation on its feet.
>

No
ESUG is also hosting us as a task force.
This way we do not have to
     create an association
     create bank account
So now this is like that but it should not stay but we will see if  
the future
pushes us to change. I believe in small steps but real over dreams....

Stef