Am Freitag 28 Januar 2011, 16:07:59 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:
Hi,
On 01/28/2011 01:52 PM, jdd wrote:
* The legal form of the foundation is to be a German voluntary association (wikipedia:Eingetragener_Verein).
I understand very well that this is much more handy than any other system, given where most suse fellows are located
Just for the record. Having a German e.V. is the result of the boards discussions. The argumentation for this is that the majority of contributors to our project is German (European). So is this something we can count as "decided" now?
Very good decision. That makes everything easy. As a former member of board of the KDE e.V. I can tell from experience that a german e.V. is very easy to operate as there is the german "Vereinsgesetzt" which rules out a useful frame of operandi. And, which is more important, there are people like lawyers and tax consultants who deal with that every day and help. That makes it easy for the people who take responsibility within the organisation. For example all the discussion around "how we do finances" is going away with that because its law that an e.V. needs to have an treasurer who is responsible for the finances. Usually she/he does a little accounting and works together with a tax consultant to prepare the anual report which has to be approved by the membership, after it was checked by a few members of the membership on its correctness. All that is law, so nothing to be thought over by us here :-) Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org