From aheinecke at gnupg.org Thu Aug 3 10:02:32 2017 From: aheinecke at gnupg.org (Andre Heinecke) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:02:32 +0200 Subject: Status update / planning for membership assembly Message-ID: <10530268.vAy1Q6K2cH@esus> Hi, So it's been quiet here for quite a while. Time to get some activity :-) We (the Board) had a Meeting yesterday [1] to discuss how to move forward. Mostly we would like to discuss some topics (see below) on this mailing list and hold a first Membership assembly around FOSDEM next year (somewhere in February). Likely in D?sseldorf. So, the Verein now has a Bank Account, a postal address, a bitcoin wallet and some funds. Thanks to the Wau Holland Foundation the Verein obtained the funds which were donated to the Wau Holland Foundation for GnuPG since 2015. (~60k ?). Additionally the Verein got around 26 BTC [2] from the current fundraising campaign that was financed by and focused on g10code. That's the good news. Now we need to get this Verein really set up to do something. :-) While the assembly will be the ultimate place for decisions and discussions, we should probably try to prepare something and start to discuss topics beforehand. Some points that I think we need to discuss: - More concrete long / short term goals for the Verein apart from the general goals outlined in our constitution. - Resulting from that: How should we spend the funds we received (or will receive) and how do we control that the funds are spent according to our goals. - Membership rules -- Who should be accepted as a member? -- How do we want to concretly handle supporting members? -- Membership fees. -- How do we actually implement this, which infrastructure etc. - What our activities as a Verein (apart from collecting and spending money) should be, and who would like to contribute what. Feel free to propose / discuss anything else you think related, of course. Best Regards, Andre 1: https://dev.gnupg.org/T3301 2: https://blockchain.info/address/1EAw3RnaALKiES8Ap93SwwDx4fsoY12wzF -- GnuPG e.V., Rochusstr. 44, D-40479 D?sseldorf. VR 11482 D?sseldorf Vorstand: W.Koch, A.Heinecke, M.Brinkmann. Mail: board at gnupg.org Finanzamt D-Altstadt, St-Nr: 103/5923/1779. Tel: +49-2104-4938799 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: From marcus.brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum.de Thu Aug 3 20:52:42 2017 From: marcus.brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Marcus Brinkmann) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:52:42 +0200 Subject: Resignation of Treasurer Message-ID: Hi, I resigned from my position as treasurer just before the board meeting yesterday (2017-08-03 15:30). According to German civil code, the resignation is effective immediately and finally. Best regards, Marcus Brinkmann -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From aheinecke at gnupg.org Mon Aug 7 17:25:03 2017 From: aheinecke at gnupg.org (Andre Heinecke) Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:25:03 +0200 Subject: Resignation of Treasurer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2458846.pMIjExeNRm@esus> Hi, On Thursday, August 3, 2017 8:52:42 PM CEST Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I resigned from my position as treasurer just before the board meeting > yesterday (2017-08-03 15:30). According to German civil code, the > resignation is effective immediately and finally. I was sad to see you resign as I was looking forward to build up the Verein together with you and have us take more and more responsibility from Werner's shoulders. Well, thanks for your work and hopefully you will still stay a member and help as a member :-) Anyhow. The problematic thing is now that according to our constitution the Board consists of three members. So we think that we need a replacement before the board can officially act. Werner and me will ask the lawyer who assisted us with our constitution how we can proceed now. We will probably need an extraordinary membership assembly to vote in a new board member. We are hoping that we can do this without an in person meeting. We'll let you know if we have a clear plan for that. Then there is the question of who wants to take over from Marcus? Any volunteers? We are open to hiring a part time office person to handle the day to day workings of a cashier to minimize the workload but someone will have to oversee that (sign stuff etc.) The bad thing is that especially for this post german language and probably some experience in german "Verein" is necessary or at least a big advantage :-/ So we are currently even open to adding a new member to take over this post. As Werner is going on Vacation and he has the contacts moving forward on this will be delayed until the end of this month when Werner returns. Regards, Andre -- GnuPG e.V., Rochusstr. 44, D-40479 D?sseldorf. VR 11482 D?sseldorf Vorstand: W.Koch, A.Heinecke. Mail: board at gnupg.org Finanzamt D-Altstadt, St-Nr: 103/5923/1779. Tel: +49-2104-4938799 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: