On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Michel Mauny wrote:
> > What about creating a non-profit association or something such,
>   where indiviudal members could apply, and give smaller than 2KE
>   donations, and then they could become 1 member of the consortium.
> 
> To me, this is an excellent idea, but the best would probably be that
> someone external to INRIA creates such an association (or a groupment
> of such associations). Indeed, it would be a bit strange if INRIA
> created an association which would become a member of a Consortium
> leaded by INRIA itself. There could be even be several such
> associations, as long as each of them is able to gather at least 2
> kEuros. (The more members, the better :-)

Let's start with one such associtation, there can be more later one.

I am not familiar with association law, but it seems to me that there is need for various members, maybe a little fee to pay, not sure (well for french associations), and an annual meeting or somethign such.

I am not sure how well the frnech association law handle non-french members, and err, lets call it virtual meetings. 

Maybe someone is familiar with this, or i could ask around.

Friendly,

Sven Luther