Agenda for the general meeting 2018

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:23, kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
said:

> Very convenient to make it during FOSDEM, so thanks for doing that. Any
> thoughts on time for the meeting? Since people are flying in that day I

For the official meeting I had Friday late afternoon in mind.  We good
then share taxis to arrive early enough at the beer event.

> the meeting is expected to take, but even a 2 hour meeting from 15 would
> allow for dinner plans around 1800/1900 ahead of the FOSDEM beer event

The official meeting should not last for more than 30 to 45 minutes.
However, this requires that we discuss before that event.  My mail and
in Brussels.  I plan to arrive on Thursday, so for some of us there
should be enough time for in person discussions or a hackathon.

So what about 16:30

>> - Activities - Finacial status
>
> In order to make the meeting more efficient, I recommend as much as
> possible is sent out ahead of the meeting so it can be read through by
> the participants before we start.

I will definitely do so.  Note that we currently have all facts at
https://gnupg.org/verein/finances.html ,

> I'm curious how the figure EUR 24 came up (why not 25 for a round
> number, is it thinking of montly contribution of EUR 2?), but to start

Yes, 2 Euro per month.  I had a meeting with a tax advisor and he
suggested that we don't go for the 1 Euro per months, because this looks
too much like a pro-forma membership fee.

> off discussion, could also regular donations to gnupg (since the
> donation campaign etc) be counted towards this, or would it legally
> require a separate one?

The receipts we can issue for tax deduct-ability in Germany (and in
theory for the whole EU) need to indicate whether it is a membership fee
or a donation.  Right now we are only a few members and splitting a
donation into membership fee and donation can be done at the Verein's
site.  With a larger member base it would be better to keep this
separate.  Or well, a member can also opt to document voluntary work as
a replacement for sending money.

> As for supporting members, I would propose different "rankings" of
> member types, that don't really differ in anything but the amount
> contributed yearly. Some ideas might be taken from e.g [apache
> sponsorship], allowing for the possibility of contribute by private
> individuals as well as  corporations of various sizes.

Yes, we could have buttons for supporting members private pages like
"GnuPG donor 2017", "GnuPG sustaining donor" as well as logos for large
donations on our thank-you page.  Which levels to assign and how to name
them needs to be discussed.



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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