Dusseldorf, 2014

Location

Congress Centre Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

October 14, 2014 at 1300 - 1500 in room 111 (room changed, was 10 before).

Agenda

• Financial report
• Election of new members
• Discussion about future of e.V. (started in 2013)

Forms

• Proxy form File:Proxy instructions-oe.pdf

Attendance

• Leon 'likewise' Woestenberg
• Denys 'denix' Dmytriyenko
• Sean 'darknighte' Hudson
• 'Khem' Raj
• Andrea 'g1zer0' Galbusera
• Marco 'mckoan' Cavallini - (proxy for Andrea 'ant_work' Adami)
• Martin 'JaMa' Jansa
• Mark 'fray' Hatle
• Henning "woglinde" Heinold
• Anders Darander
• Richard Purdie (proxy for Paul Eggleton + David Stewart)
• Koen Kooi (proxy Graeme)
• Phil 'Crofton' Ballister

Non members present and elected to become members

• Nicolas Dechesne

Non members not present but elected to become members

• Trevor Woerner
• Gary Thomas
• Tim Orling
• Apelete Seketeli

Meeting notes

Meeting opened 13:05

• Atendees Documented

Financial Summary Presented

• Various forms had to be filed
• Challenges due to lack of German address and language barriers
• SPI Account created with one donation
• No other changes to accounts
• Treasures report approved

New member vote

• New member vote for all new members except gary
  • Passed with all in favour
• New member vote for Gary
  • Two objections were raised, all others were in favour

Member expiration

• Member expiration needs to be handled
• Added as an agenda item for next board meeting
  • Board expects to provide feedback to members within one month

e.V. structure

• Discussion about e.V. structure and whether it still works for the project
• Board recommends replacing the e.V. with something else, exact proposal to be determined in 18 months
• Historically, three things were and are needed for the project. These resulted in the formation of the e.V.
  • Financial
  • Ownership (e.g. domain names)
  • Decision making ability (which implies membership list)
• Currently, the financial issues are covered by SPI, others open question
• Goal is to get the OE membership more involved by reducing the overhead involved with the e.V.
• Members present had no objections for board looking into this
• By the next GA, the board plans to have a proposal to vote on
  • Must be well in advance for proxy instructions

TSC

• Koen formally resigned from TSC
• Board needs to setup TSC elections
• General discussion about the role of the TSC

Meeting Closed at 14:05

Financial Summary

• OpenEmbedded e.V. bank accounts hold EUR 1731. SPI account holds EUR 127.
• Overhead due to lack of German address and language barriers, we now have a German volunteer that provides us with a German address for tax declarations etc. and proxies postal documents.
• Exempt from taxes over 2010, 2011 and 2012.
• Spending were USD 50 (Philip?) on hosting, not yet declared.
• Received EUR 128 worth of donations via SPI http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/
• Treasures report approved