Re: [RFC] Creating an OpenEmbedded founation

[Gerwin van der Kruis <gerwin@vanderkruis.net>]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 11:46, Stelios Koroneos wrote:
> I generaly agree with the idea but having gone through similar "situations"
> several times in the past i know that in order to something like that to
> succed, one or two persons will have to take full repsonsibility of it, as
> the legal requirments are usually a lot.
>
> One of the things i strongly agree with Holger is that the foundantion
> should not be doing bussiness, as from experience this will create *a lot*
> of problems with members in the future.
> It's main job should be to promote OE (conference, shows etc) and manage
> the assets donated to the OE project from 3rd parties
> (money,equipment,services)
>
> As for the legal form, i am for a European juristiction entity (at least at
> this stage).
> e.V looks the best way to go IMHO, but as corerctly pointed by Holger it
> involves an overhead to manage it and a lot of  work to set it up.
> Taking into account past experience, the yearly OEDEM meeting could be also
> the date of the  general assembly solving this issue.
> For other issues that voting is required, electronic voting could be
> accepted (this largely depends on the country the e.V is setup but there is
> an EU directive to member states to "legalize" electronic voting but i am
> not sure if this allready in effect in Germany)
>
I agree with the points made . 

And also the not doing business is really important I think . 

Is there any progress on setting a date for the meeting ?

Regards, 

Gerwin

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