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Template of an invoice including Belgian Tax Law generalities – OpenOffice.org version

Template of an invoice including Belgian Tax Law generalities – Microsoft Excel version

Individual level OB concepts and theories

These include, personality, motivation, perception and emotion

“…internals [employees] do better than externals in work that required initiative and independent action, complex information processing and learning…”;

The partner is a leading vendor for service parts inventory optimization planning [1].

The partner offers exciting opportunities for career growth, with a competitive benefits package and earnings potential. If you were looking for a high-energy, team-oriented environment, driven by an innovative leadership team, they would love to hear from you.

The required person

• Is experienced in Java and Oracle technologies
• Is fluent in English
• Has problem-solving skills
• Has experience in a helpdesk (a plus)
• Is willing to travel in Europe up to 10% of his/her time
• has a minimum of three (3) years of experience

Send us your resume to the following address: info [at] alt-f1 [dot] be

[1] What are service parts inventory planning? http://bit.ly/umkVdd

Some Internet access is totally free. Other hotspots may require proving the quality of customer of the institution by inputting credentials given by the institution you are in.

The map is made thanks to Google maps but the layout of the page is not ergonomic at all.

People are free to add a new free hotspot by sending an email to an address provided in the link provided hereunder.

[1] Wifi – Town of Brussels http://bit.ly/rsUE6e

The word ‘ASBL’ should be mentioned in every document

• e.g. Sémaphore ASBL or Sémaphore Association Sans But Lucratif
• it is forbidden to use a name of a non profit already existing

Headquarters:

• exact address and district judicial e.g. Arrondissement de Bruxelles

The goal of the association:

• be very precise (help children from third world countries) and DO NOT list the activities (collect money, etc.)

The goal of the association:

• be very precise (help children from third world countries) and DO NOT list the activities (collect money, etc.)

The members of the Association:

• The articles must state: The full names, address of each founder (individual);
• The name, legal form (ASBL) and the registered address of each founder (legal entity). The registered office of any corporate founders should not be confused with the head office of the association is established.
• The conditions and formalities of admission and discharge of the members must also be defined in the articles
• The rights and obligations of the members must also be fixed by the articles (and not by internal rules of procedure).

General Assembly: powers, summons, notice to members

• The articles must state the functions and mode of convening the general assembly. They must also indicate how its decisions are brought to the attention of members and third parties.
• The powers reserved to the General Assembly are:
• Changes in articles;
• Appointment and dismissal of directors;
• The appointment and dismissal of auditors and fixation of their compensation if a payment is foreseen;
• Discharge to be granted to directors and commissioners;
• approval of budgets and accounts;
• The dissolution of the association;
• Exclusion of a member;
• The transformation of the association in corporation with a social purpose;
• All the conducts the articles require.
• It is important to indicate that anything that is not assigned by law or the articles is under the jurisdiction of the Board of the General Assembly
• The general meeting is convened by the board or when a fifth of the members requests it. The Articles shall determine the terms of this notice. The notice period is eight days at least.
• It is usual that the association keeps a register that records the decisions of the General Assembly. The articles should determine how members can see it.

Directors: appointment, dismissal and powers

• The articles must contain the rules for the appointment, dismissal and termination of a director and the extent of their powers and how to exercise (by acting either individually or jointly, or in college). It is also necessary to regulate the duration of their mandate.

• If the articles permit individuals to represent the association and / or the delegation of daily management
  the association, these mentions are also required.
• If the articles are considering the appointment of commissioners, they should mention their method of appointment

Contributions or payments by members

• The maximum amount of the contribution must be stated in the statutes, in order to inform those wishing to join the association on the financial commitments that will be required

Allocation of assets on dissolution

• The articles must specify the destination of the assets resulting from the liquidation of an association. It must be assigned to a disinterested purpose. If you wish to give the property at the disposal of an association and later retrieve, you are advised to establish a writing describing the conditions.

Lifetime of the association

• You should indicate the lifetime of the association when it is not unlimited. Indeed, some are non-profit organization formed to ensure that the pursuit of a goal limited in time.
• The mention of the term in the articles, when it is not unlimited, provides an additional guarantee to potential members.

Useful links

• Belgian Federal info:
  • http://www.belgium.be/fr/economie/entreprise/creation/types_de_societe/ASBL/
  • http://justice.belgium.be/fr/binaries/Les%20ASBL_tcm421-142579.pdf
• Non profit (FR + NL)
  • http://justice.belgium.be/fr/publications/vzw_s.jsp?referer=tcm:421-138566-64
• forms to fill:
  • http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pub/form_f.htm
• Amounts to pay:
  • http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pub/asbl_2009.pdf

Contact us: http://www.alt-f1.be  - info [at] alt-f1 [dot] be

Dear Student looking for an internship:

WHO ARE WE?

ALT-F1 is many talented people working together to deliver simple tools to our customer or partners.

Our approach is simple, pragmatic, straightforward, never jargony, and always insightful.

Read on about our family of brands and services to see what they could do for your company.

Our capabilities (See http://www.alt-f1.be)

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

ALT-F1 is developing web applications planned to run on Google App Engine “on the cloud” to ensure high scalability of the system from the very beginning.

The application will help people to share objects and keep track of them; the development has started in May 2011 and will be released in June 2012.

The application has simple business requirements but the challenges remains on the software architecture as well as IT configuration management.

The experience gained during this development will be used

• To increase the experience of ALT-F1 and expand its value proposition
• To develop further business applications using the “cloud”

Help us to compare the different “cloud” providers based on selected Key Performance Indicators (KPI) e.g. Windows Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Google App Engine (GAE) or OVH Private Cloud. See further information: http://bit.ly/oRVsvr

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

This project demands significant involvement by the student. Ultimate success is highly dependent on your effort. To help achieve a smooth and successful implementation, it will be your responsibility, helped by the current team of two persons, to:

1. Further develop the web application (implement maximum three business requirements) including the development of the interactions with the social networks (Facebook and maybe Twitter)
2. To design the test framework and run the user and unit tests (maximum five business requirements)
3. Document the billing model of based on the “consumption” of resources. See http://bitly.com/qg1MZA

We hope we can reach the two first goals.

IT ENVIRONMENT: SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE

The documentation, the source code, the servers are located « on the cloud » hosted by Google.

The student will use a laptop connected to Internet in order to develop, test and deploy the web application.

The technical architecture of the application is based on (see http://bitly.com/o8ZhDL):

The student will have access to the following electronic libraries (See http://bitly.com/rsr6ex):

Further documentation is available on our website, it includes business requirements, technical requirements, etc. (http://bitly.com/osf0J2)

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Students embarking their final year (Bachelor or a University degree) in

• Information Sciences or related
• Taking care to the ergonomics of the application
• Not afraid to start writing the test case before the source code

BENEFITS FOR THE STUDENT

When the project is complete, the application should be ready to be deployed as a Beta version. We do plan to hire up to two students having successfully graduated in 2012.

We are at your disposal if you need further information,

Abdelkrim BOUJRAF

Managing Partner

Here is the essay…

Please choose a leader (known in the business world, political world…).

Guy Kawasaki has a BA in psychology, a MBA from University of California, Los Angeles. Besides his work at Apple as software evangelist in the ’80, he acts now as a venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley.

He is speaker and author of ten books concerning sales, marketing, leadership, communication and psychology. He is using his knowledge to teach to entrepreneurs how to “do not just aspire to sell their product but, aspire to enchant their customers”.

For that reasons, he shares best practices, from “how to build trust with others”, “how to shake the hand of someone” to “how to create presentations using the 10-20-30 rule (10 slides, 20 minutes, font size minimum is 30 points)”.

I would invite you to watch a video available through my blog in order to better know the man: http://bit.ly/lwaNSc

(a) According to what you’ve learned so far in LTC – what can you tell/observe/describe about this person? (This includes leadership qualities, communication, collaboration, etc…. described in terms of strengths and weaknesses of the leader)

Strengths of Guy

• He “sets a purpose for others to follow and motivates them to pursue it with effectiveness and full commitment” (F. Kofman)
• Write and share compelling stories
• Due to his position in a venture capitalist company, he:
• Has a willingness to learn
• Is passionate about the people he meets as well as their projects
• Takes risks
• Is persuasive with his audience who can become his business partners
• Is associative
• He applies the theories he shares with his audience

Weaknesses of Guy

• His omnipresence in the media might denote a kind of inability to find new start-up talents due to the competition of venture capitalists in San Francisco area
• His visibility makes him “the person with whom I want to work” but people might very be disappointed if they can’t get his attention or if he doesn’t like their project
• Too much expectation is put upon him as he motives people but won’t do the work for them

(b) Taking into consideration your own style, if you were to make a business proposal to this person: 

(i) How would you approach it? What skills do you need? And what would this proposal be?

To approach Guy I need a willingness to enchant people through innovative applications that might change the world. This should be materialised by the creation and the management of a successful social network already available to a limited amount of users.

This project should be setup by a team having different background but it must have an “underline magic” that sets what the team has apart from the competition.

Guy is looking for people needing his help to increase the visibility of their projects but not people who need his help to finish their ideal project that might never see the light.

(ii) What possible obstacles can you foresee for yourself (e.g. in terms of own difficulties, weaknesses)? When might these obstacles occur (e.g. preparation phase, selling proposal to leader, implementation…)?

• I am ashamed to disclose the joy I feel when working on my project, implying that I have hard time to share this fascination to the ones I want to work with.
• Barriers to work with others start with finding entrepreneurs with whom to partner in those times when a job as employee in a big firm sounds satisfactory to the majority of people.
• Most people want to lead projects but they forget you need to manage and find people to implement the objectives; the latter are the ones it is hard to convince to stay in their job position and “wait” for their “promotion”.

(iii) What do you propose to do about them (in terms of your own development, improvement…)?

• To work on myself and put out of mind the fact that being attached to an idea that might sounds odd to others won’t be a reason to taunt us.
• To work on my “likability” and change my dress code when I meet other entrepreneurs; basically they dress jeans when I am dressing more formal jackets.
• To work as a software developer again and stop writing strategies for executives because I need the project to run and be consumed by customers.
• To revise with a marketer, human resources expert and a psychologist how to convince people to stay in the position where they are the most efficient

Source:  Leadership, Teamwork & Communication – an essay about Guy KAWASAKI (PDF File)

Before this summer, Microsoft had organised a quite easy contest asking to Hotmail’ users to share the date when they created their Hotmail account. Hopefully, I was one of the first in the ‘world’ Using Internet since 1992 still gives a competitive advantage.

After summer Microsoft contacted me congratulating me as I won a birthday cake!

After few exchanges of email I received the huge cake and enjoyed it with my family during the birthday of my nephew.

Thanks folks for the tasty cake!

Birthday cake won during the context: Hotmail celebrates 15 years

[1] http://blog.i14y.net/2007/07/16/10-years-anniversary-of-my-email-account-on-hotmailcom/

Un spectacle de marionettes en rue comme il y en a des centaines pendant la durée du festival.

Si vous avez des enfants, je ne saurai trop vous inviter à y passer une semaine.