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Carried by its members

OVAIC is built to outlast any one person, including the one who started it.

1. Why there are fees

A body that checks others must not depend on one patron. If one person pays for everything, the work lasts only as long as that person, and it bends towards that person's wishes. Fees are how members show that they need this work and want it to continue. Each member carries a share, so that no one carries the whole.

2. Fees buy no power

• One member, one vote, whatever the fee.
• Fees go only to OVAIC's own accounts, never to the initiator.
• Every payment is booked and shown in the annual accounts.
• No member, whatever it pays, decides results about itself.

3. The role of the initiator

The Gravit Open Network Foundation started OVAIC. It is one member on the same terms as all others and holds no special rights.

Its founder, Dr. Alex Konviser, serves OVAIC as Secretary: with advice, with work, with organisation. The Secretary does not direct OVAIC, does not fund it in exchange for influence, and does not decide its results. Being the creator gives no authority here. Decisions belong to the members and to the Board they elect. By the first ordinary General Assembly a majority of the Board comes from organisations independent of the initiator.

4. Built for generations

A good circuit keeps working when one part is replaced, because no part carries it alone. OVAIC is meant to work the same way: open statutes, open methods, public results, a Board elected by the members, and support shared by many. Then the work does not end with any one life.

5. Check this too

The statutes, the fee scale and the list of members and Board are public. The annual accounts will be. If anything here does not match what OVAIC does, tell us through the contact form. The correction will be published.