• What were the organizational models that inspired you to create FoAM ?
• How did you would like to differ form existing organizations ?

• What was the purpose of FoAM as an organization when you created it ?
• What were FoAM’s vision, mission and values when the organization was created ?
• How do you see the link between FoAM’s structure, internal processes, and mission/vision and value ?

• What were the rules to become a member of FoAM ? Was this process formalized ?
• What was the process to consider someone a member ? Was this process formalized ?
• What were the reasons leading to exclude a member ? Was this process formalized ?
• Were there different members status with different right & duties ?

• As there always been a “core team” ?
• How were people becoming part of the “core team” or leaving it ?

• Where all members of the board FoAM members ?
• What was the role of the board ?

• What kind of decisions were taken collectively ?
• What were the collective decision-making instances ? Where there only the AGM, or did other instances like the Board existed ?
• How did you manage coordination of members work on projects ? Did you have clear roles and personal missions ?
• How was decision-making structured within FoAM ?
• Was there a hierarchy with different members status, more or less involved in decision-making ?
• How was a new project labeled a “FoAM project” ? Could any member start a “FoAM project” on his own, or did he have to ask other members to claim the label ?
• Who was in charge of the financial decision-making ?

=Transformations=

In your opinion, how many “metamorphosis” FoAM did overcome ?

• How did the following elements evolved ?

* Purpose

  * Vision
  * Mission
  * Values
* What/who was a driving for the evolution of these elements ?
* Was it a collective decision ? Of which kind of 

• Did the rules for membership acquisition/destitution evolved ?
• Did new members statuses appeared / old member statuses disappeared ?
• Did new membranes appeared / old membranes disappeared ?

• How did the decision-making structure evolved with time ?

• What triggered the creations of the new studios ?
• Is there an explicitly written common ground or agreement linking studios together ?
• Is there a hierarchy in the studios regarding decision-making ?
• Are studios linked financially ?
• Do every studio manage their own projects ? Can each studio claim to launch a “FoAM project” on its own ?

• Did new structural inspirations came along the way ? Did they impulsed change within the structure ?

The nature of FoAM work, its members, and its structure seem to be very plastic and ever-changing, while still being attached to common interests from the beginning

• How would you name this “DNA”, the part that did not change over the years ?
• Which element(s) / what reason(s) do you see as responsible for this outstanding plasticity ?

=Successes & failures=

• What do you see as the greatest successes of these structural experiments ?
• What do you see as the failed structural experiments ? What would you have liked to see emerging that did not emerge ?

=Legal aspects=

• Was the vzw the ideal legal structure for FoAM as an organization ?
• What would be the ideal legal structure for FoAM in your opinion ?