Dissolving the GnuPG e.V.

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hello friends of GnuPG,

Am Freitag 19 Mai 2023 10:08:13 schrieb Werner Koch:
> On Mon, 15 May 2023 12:41, Andre Heinecke said:
> > I am proposing to dissolve the GnuPG e.V.:
>
> I fully agree with the proposal.
>
> Regarding the remaining funds I suggest to also distrubute a part of
> them to the zwiebelfreunde.de, a German Verein running a bunch of Tor
> server.  They may even be able to make easy use of the remaining one
> Bitcoin.

from my perspective I will follow Andre and Werner on this,
as they were the most active members of the "verein" (German association)
and they hold the lead on GnuPG and the OpenPGP standardisation efforts
over many years.

The Verein could still be potentially useful for GnuPG
and potentially extending its activities to OpenPGP
and other decentral end-to-end crypto communications
standards like emails and implementations that are Free Software.
It could also be used to offer outside perspectives to
g10code and Intevation and run services like a public keyserver
and conference.

However this all would mean that a number of people would step up and get 
active. And I do not see that happening.

It is very cool that g10code is having more economic success with GnuPG
now and my company Intevation also has grown (at least a bit).
So my time to help organising a Verein is very limited
and it is natural and good that Werner's and Andre's
time budget for this is decreasing as well. 
It means they can spread GnuPG in more areas of use.

Best Regards
Bernhard

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