Next weekend we have the opportunity to present our project at two events:

- Karma-Konsum in Frankfurt

- Sustainovation in Vienna

For that reason we prepared a presentation (At the Moment only in German)

We also started several teams (only visible, when you are logged in this platform) to work on the actual topics:

- Foundation of a charitable trust: The constitution is in the moment at the swiss government in examination

- Fundraising: Our goal is to collect funds from at least € 36000. That money is for starting the charitable trust and working on the prototype of a web2 - platform to connect all the stakeholder of the project.

- Online - Platform: for the setup of a platform, we look for IT experienced ...

This winter I was off. Two month of traveling in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, kept my away from work but at the same time brought my even closer to the vision of our Fair Work-Organization.

Now I am back and ready for the next steps.

The topics we discussed last autumn:
- should the operational part of the "Hybrid - Organization" be a co-operative or a joint stock company?
- Should we work with something like a "Fair-Ware" license or is "open-source" the ultimo ratio?

Both question we could answer with a X as well as Y.

A small change in the structure of the "Hybrid - Organization" will allow us to us both models in the same Organization. Both can fit for some subgroups of the whole organization.

You can see more about it in the last updates in our Community.

Since most of us speak fluent German, this actual updates are mostly in the German part of the Platform. If you do not understand German and ...

Here already I start to struggle with my English. The moment legal terms are involved, it becomes difficult  

Are we speaking about a "Trust" or a "Foundation" if we mean "Stiftung"? How ever, I browsed  the Swiss law and found it very capable for our object:

http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.Stiftungsgruendung (German)

I will do some further research in the next days and hope that we can write the constitution as soon as possible. It would be nice to involve some experienced persons for this. so I sent a request to a few Foundations with similar goals to ask them to send us there constitutional ...

I start with this diary because the project is evolving and including new and helpful brains especially though the vast network of Franz Nahrada. So we are lucky that the Open Source Peer to Peer Production community starts to become interested in our work. That is a good reason to extend the community into English since most of this new contacts are closer to this langauge.