@bhaugen i was vaguely involved around the peripheral of an organisation, with members from various European countries that incorporated in the UK, as theres no nationality requirements for members/participants in UK corporate bodies. Banking needed some consideration (was solved by either a UK bank € account or an account with a European bank as most money in and out was in €s).
Im normally somewhat resistant to incorporating unless a legal body is needed for limited liability or to own stuff…
@bhaugen …or enter into contracts, but i guess it can also give a greater feeling of solidness to an endeavour.
I wonder if something like social.coop is currently doing could be a viable non-incorporated alternative. Open Collective for transparent finances and https://gateway.metagov.org/ for democratic distribution.
@dazinism thanks, those might be good models. We're watching.
So far, the core vocabulary project has no income, only the user and software development projects have any income, and not much of that.
I think eventually getting involved with an "official" standards body like ActivityPub did might be good. But that's a hard row to hoe. I've done it before. No time for that yet, and I hope done by other people, if at all.
@dazinism
> Im normally somewhat resistant to incorporating unless a legal body is needed for limited liability or to own stuff…
In the case of valueflo.ws it's neither of those issues. More like longevity and participatory governance of the project. It has a growing set of user groups and the whole thing is dependent on two old people.
A multi-stakeholder cooperative would be an appropriate organizational structure. Don't know how formal it needs to be.