[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

[Elver Loho]

Hi everyone,

Dealing with everyday chapter issues takes a lot of time and effort.
Last week I was sitting on the council of the Data Protection
Inspectorate discussing legislation regarding personal data. Today I
was at the parliament's constitutional commission discussing Open Data
implementation. Preparing for these meetings, taking part, and later
reporting to the board and members takes a full day's work for each
event. And we haven't yet figured out how to fund such activities.

Can anyone shed some light on how day-to-day funding has been resolved
at your chapter?

I'd like to hear about workable funding models, which would let us
keep 2-3 salaried positions. Running all of this for no salary for
over two years has been highly successful (NGO of the year 2012,
prevented ACTA from being signed, biggest peaceful public protest in
the country's history, helped create the best law of 2012 bringing
Open Data into Estonian legislation, etc.), but I'm also broke right
now and have no medical insurance, so, yeah... It's probably not a
sustainable model of getting things done. And donations simply don't
work in a small country like Estonia.

Best,
Elver Loho
Estonia Chapter

elver.loho at gmail.com
+372 5661 6933
skype: elver.loho