Status update / planning for membership assembly

[Andre Heinecke]

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 Düsseldorf.

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

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