# Revolutionary Games Studio is now an association
**URL:** https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/revolutionary-games-studio-is-now-an-association/773
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**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/revolutionary-games-studio-is-now-an-association/773 "2021-02-17T17:47:00Z")
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/revolutionary-games-studio-is-now-an-association/773/1 "2021-02-17T17:47:01Z")
After a lot of talk:
> [@Let's talk about founding an association](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/lets-talk-about-founding-an-association/692):
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> Let’s talk about founding an association in order to get things on a more solid basis regarding the Thrive project. There’s more talk about this topic here: Unless someone has a different feasible idea, I say we found an association in Finland. Here’s a website in English that guides how to do that: [https://www.prh.fi/en/yhdistysrekisteri/perustaminen.html](https://www.prh.fi/en/yhdistysrekisteri/perustaminen.html) (the same page in Finnish: [https://www.prh.fi/fi/yhdistysrekisteri/yhdistyksen\_perustajalle.html](https://www.prh.fi/fi/yhdistysrekisteri/yhdistyksen_perustajalle.html)) I recommend people to check out so…
and quite a bit of waiting, Revolutionary Games Studio ry is now a thing. We have successfully registered as an association (a nonprofit) in Finland. You can check that thread I linked above for more details, but we now finally have a legal entity that can handle funding and hiring people. The first thing will be the Patreon that will be moved to be under the association. So now I need to get busy with setting up various things to get that moving forward.
Also in the near future I’ll make a post available to Thrive developers with instructions on how you can be apply to be a member of the association. Members get voting rights in the association assemblies and can vote on for example the major direction of the association.
If you read this far you might want to try out 0.5.3.1 patch early:
> **[0.5.3.1 Patch Early Testing](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/0-5-3-1-patch-early-testing/3332)**
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> Here’s the 0.5.3.1 patch a couple of days early for some last minute testing against critical bugs. We are making this release as binding agents is stuck / not being worked on currently, and we wanted to release some important fixes like the save...
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### Author:  [@Untrustedlife](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Untrustedlife)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/revolutionary-games-studio-is-now-an-association/773/2 "2021-02-17T19:10:12Z")
If this is the case, i may be interested in returning.