[scribus-dev] Scribus e.V.

[Louis Desjardins]

2008/9/13 "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>

> > > Louis, yes, I agree, although I think we need to remove voting rights
> or
> > > similar.
> >
> > Absolutely. We don't want a company to take over or to have simply the
> > possibility to take over.
>
> This is close to impossible with the current setup, as a company would have
> to stack the association with individual employees as members, and then the
> charter still says that a member that is acting against the goals and
> interests of the association can be excluded. Plus, the managing committee
> has to decide on each application for membership. We could set up an
> application form that requires disclosure of any connection to a company
> that may want to harm the project. Potential members would to have to sign a
> declaration that they will disclose any such connection during their
> membership etc. We have a lot of latitude here.
>
> Speaking of an application form, I think we should create one in German
> (required), English and French. Other languages may be desireable, but I
> doubt a German court would accept a Chinese, Russian or whatever version.
> The tax office already complained that the GPL is written in English, even
> though German courts accepted the English version of the GPL as valid. But
> we shouldn't take the risk of accepting a form that neither we nor a court
> understand. In the worst case we would have to pay for an offical
> translation. I will prepare a German and an English draft for the founding
> meeting, so that we can vote upon. French would probably be OK, as French is
> an official administrative language in the EU. This way, we had a set of
> forms for the first year of our existence. The general meeting could then
> decide to create a new one next year.
>
> >
> > Another tought is the Status are one thing and they define the "frame" of
> > the association. The Rules can be more specific, enter into details, and
> > ca= n
> > address such issues as the membership, for instance. I see that more or
> > les= s
> > like the Law and the Regulations. I understand that changing the Status
> is
> > always possible but we have to refer to the legal authority, while the
> > Rule= s
> > can be discussed and defined among the members.
>
> Exactly. For instance, the statutes and articles don't describe the voting
> procedure for the general meeting, so this can be decided during the
> meeting. Also, the scale of fees is an external document, not a part of the
> charter. In its current form the charter contains the absolute minimum to
> satisfy the requirements of German civil law and to get the association
> working -- thanks to the many useful hints from court employees.


All this seems just perfect!

Thanks for putting this together!

Louis

>
>
> Cheers
>
> Christoph
>
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