Hey List!
AFAIK, ASCENT+ is already a cooperative, so if we could get out foot into that 
club, we would already have achieved that goal.
In addition, we'd get access to clean rooms and services across Europe.

Cheers
-lev

On Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:24:38 PM WET Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
Hello List!

Last Sunday we talked also about
"Legal background: form a limited-liability company to handle the stuff."

Well, I vote for using a SCE [0] to fulfill this legal task instead of a
company.

A company is mostly owned be some individuals which rules the whole
process in a "capitalistic" way. And I do not thinks this form will
reflect our mission to bring the advantage of an open-and-free
technology to the masses.

In my opinion a cooperative fits better into our community-based
environment. We need at least five entities (persons or institutions)
from two different European Countries - a goal I guess we can reach
while our active members are all located in Europe.

So, the SCE can attract many members and give us a legal home for that.
Okay, on backside of the SCE, a higher effort is driving/leading this
cooperative because the SCE lives with the engagement of all of its
members. I understand this as an enrichment. :-)

Regarding the naming rules I propose

	"SCE LibreSilicon Alliance" as a suitable name

for our cooperative enterprise.

Some arguments for cooperatives also Wikipedia has [1].

Please feel free - even if your not from Europe - to give any feedback
which Advantages and Disadvantages do you see in setting up and driving
a SCE. Let's argue and find the best legal form to build a great
LibreSilicon community.

Live long and prosper,
Hagen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_cooperativa_Europaea
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
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