The GnuPG Verein is founded

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi Andre,

I just announced it on twitter, see below.  The git repository is not
visible on the public git server, can we get a web page with the
"articles of the association" (seems to be a better translation than
constitution) set up quickly?

https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/829654739369467905

On 02/08/2017 07:56 PM, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've just finshed with a meeting and as part of this we finished the 
> constitution and founded an association.
> 
> Everyone on this list is invited to join all we require is a signed mail that 
> states the intention to join the GnuPG Verein.
> 
> The next step is now to get this association registered and to get it accepted 
> as a non-profit organisation for the "common good" (for taxes). As I think 
> Association is not a proper translation I am using "Verein" for this.
> 
> On Saturday 26 November 2016 16:18:16 Werner Koch wrote:
>> At yesterday's meeting in Osnabrück we talked about a new organisation
>> structure for the project.  I created the repo
>>
>>   ssh://playfair.gnupg.org/git/gnupg-project.git
> 
> You will now find in that repository under "legal/constitution.de.pdf" the 
> offical constitution for the Verein that was signed by:
> Werner, Neal, Gniibe, Marcus, Kai, Justus and me (The seven people required by 
> law)
> 
>> To help our non-German speaking core hackers I would suggest to do most
>> of the required discussion in English.  We need to write that document
>> in German and can then do an unofficial translation.  Writing the
>> constitution in English would be possible in theory but will make things
>> _much_ harder.  Thus we better do what the register court and the tax
>> office are used to.
> 
> I've added a first english translation to the repo but I'm pretty sure it 
> needs some more work because large parts of the constitution cover legal 
> requirements and the meaning is hard to understand / translate.
> 
> But it's version controlled so feel free to improve :-)
> 
> We also held our first members assembly today, The offical decisions that were 
> made were:
> 
> - Election of the board:
> -- Werner is the President
> -- Marcus is the CFO (Kassierer / Money man)
> -- I'm the Vice President
> 
> - Who will benifit if we agree to dissolve the Verein (§9):
> Free Software Friends e.V.
> (We mostly think this was not important as we don't see our Verein to be 
> dissolved but it's a legal requirement)
> 
> - If governmatal agencies require formal changes to the constution the board 
> is allowed to make them withouth a new membership assembly.
> 
> 
> Until our next assembly we would like to keep membership limited to 
> contributors / hackers but we might want to open it up a bit more in the 
> future. We want to focus on gaining supporting members to have a membership 
> base that helps with our funding.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
>