Organization

The current organization for OE is a German e.V. legal entity (similar to KDE: http://ev.kde.org/) and is for the purpose of managing finances, voting, and membership.

An 'e.V.' for 'eingetragener Verein', in the German law, translates to a voluntary organization; a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose. The organization has members.

The OpenEmbedded e.V. statues are located here: http://docs.openembedded.org/organization/2008-11-22_statutes-de.pdf

A bablefish translation is here -- could German speaking folks please clean this up: OpenEmbedded e.V. Statutes

During FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels, Belgium, a group of founding members physically gathered to get the paperwork going.

The current board of directors

• Philip Balister
• Treasurer Leon Woestenberg
• Denys Dmytriyenko
• Sean Hudson

Current Members

(please keep in alphabetical order)

1. Alessandro Gardich
2. Anders Darander
3. Andrea Adami
4. Andrea Galbusera
5. Andreas Oberritter
6. Andrei Gherzan
7. Chris Larson
8. Cliff Brake
9. Daniel Willmann
10. Dave Stewart
11. Denys Dmytriyenko
12. Dirk Hohndel
13. Dirk Opfer
14. Dmitry Eremin­Solenikov
15. Eric Bénard
16. Esben Haabendal
17. Florian Boor
18. Frans Meulenbroeks
19. Graeme Gregory
20. Graham Gower
21. Henning Heinold
22. Holger Freyther
23. Jan Lübbe
24. Jason Kridner
25. Jeff Osier-Mixon
26. John Willis
27. Joshua Lock
28. Ken Gilmer
29. Khem Raj
30. Koen Kooi
31. Leon Woestenberg
32. Liam Girdwood
33. Marcin Juszkiewicz
34. Marco Cavallini
35. Mark Brown
36. Mark Hatle
37. Martin Jansa
38. Michael Lauer
39. Michael Smith
40. Otavio Salvador
41. Paul Eggleton
42. Philip Balister
43. Philip Blundell
44. Phillip Zabel
45. Richard Purdie
46. Robert Schuster
47. Roman I Khimov
48. Saul Wold
49. Scott Garman
50. Sean Hudson
51. Simon Busch
52. Stefan Schmidt
53. Steve Sakoman
54. Tom King
55. Tom Rini
56. Yu Ke
57. Yury Bushmelev

TSC

The e.V. installed the TSC to make technical steering of the project easier.

OE Developers

Openembedded Developers are people who have submitted code into any of the OpenEmbedded repositories. Due to the nature of OE, there are many developers, and also many different components. A good place to start is the list of git repositories [1]. See OpenEmbedded Developers for a list of current developers.

Todo

• process for adding new members
• process for voting
• responsibility of the board
• conflict resolution

Pointers for Board Members

• Checklist for the General Assembly

Online Voting Policy

• Online Voting Policy

Faq

Are contributions tax deductible?

Yes they are.

Should I become member of the OE e.V.?

If you are contributing to OE frequently and/or you are interested in getting involved in administrative or organisational tasks it might be a good idea to join OE e.V.

How do I become member of the OE e.V.?

Let an existing member introduce you by sending a short introduction to the 'ev' mailinglist. If you don't know one get in touch with us on the development mailinglist or IRC first. The e.V. is open for anyone to join and its not meant to be an exclusive club of a few developers.

Is there a membership fee?

Whist an e.V. can define a membership fee, the project has not chosen to set one.

General Assemblies

* Prague, 2011

* Barcelona, 2012

* Edinburgh, 2013

* Dusseldorf, 2014