The GnuPG Verein is founded

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2017-02-09 12:43:17 -0500, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Feb 2017 00:00, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>> What does it mean for a non-German person to join the Verein? my skim of
>> constitution.en.tex looked plausible to me, but its outbound links to
>> sections of German law are not anything that i am prepared to follow or
>> understand deeply.
>
> You basically have no real responsibility.  When a member decides not to
> join the general assembly, this is totally fine and actually pretty
> common for large "Vereine".  Members of the board have some legal
> responsibility but that is in practice limited to gross negligence.
>
> The constitution says that bylaws for membership fees may be published.
> I would actually be in favor of this and require annual fees of, say, 12
> Euros.  The reason is that such fees are very common in German and not
> having membership fees can raise questions from the register court.  I
> know that non-German people tend to complain about such requirements and
> thus we can also say, that membership fees are replaced by some kind of
> work done for the Verein (this is how the FSFE does it).
>
>> The goals of the Verein as described in constitution are goals that i
>> share and would be happy to support.
>
> That is be much appreciated.

Sounds good to me.  I'm in.

Regards,

       --dkg
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