EU Articles of Association

The Process of developing the new EU Articles of Association

The current version "EU Articles of Association Pass 2" is now being published for comments from all the members of the OSM Foundation.

The EU version of the Articles of Association was prepared firstly by our Belgian attorney based on the UK Articles of Association. That version was modified in a first pass of revisions with input from the Board, the Legal and Licensing Working Group and the Belgian OSMF Local Chapter.

The most notable change has been the complete removal of references to Associate Members. The UK OpenStreetMap Foundation has two classes of members; ordinary Members and Associate members; but as far as possible the OSMF treats the two classes identically. We now propose to do away with that discriminatory distinction.

The final version will eventually be placed right here on this page of the Foundation Wiki, but this wiki has limited access for editing, so while we are developing it and asking for input we are will be working on the general wiki where all logged-in members can make comments. The development version of the EU AoA can be found at the link.

The development version contains instructions on how to comment on the draft.