2014-03-18 Meeting Minutes

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: Joerg Reisenweber (DocScrutinizer05), Ruediger Schiller (chem|st), Gido Griese (Win7Mac), Niel Nielsen (nieldk), Robert Schiller (lowkyalyr), kerio, Titilambert, Paul Healy (sixwheeledbeast), Martin Kolman (M4rtinK), Falk Stern (warfare), Aaron McEwan (chainsawbike), Jussi Ohenoja (juiceme).

Absent:

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- Kickoff meeting for Meamo Community e.V.

Topic (Kickoff meeting for Meamo Community e.V.):

• There was discussion about the voting engine used to prepare/handle/tally the votes in Maemo community matters. As it happens woody is the only one who knows how the system operates, so in the future woody needs to either continue to maintain it or pass the knowledge of it to other people capable of using it.
• This time the Maemo Council meeting was held with a differnt topic as usual, so the rest ot the meeting was conducted as formal Kickoff/Inaugural meeting of the new Maemo Community e.V.
• Win7Mac had prepared the following meeting agenda, which was presented to the attendeeds:
  • 1.)Commentary and vote on the Statutes and General rules
  • 2.) Election of the board of directors and acceptance of the internal board regulations
  • 3.)Election of the council
  • 4.)Agreement about member-fees
  • 5.)Organizational enactments
  • 6.)Miscellaneous
• chem|st opened the meeting on March 18 2014 20:32 UTC and welcomed the participants.
• Meeting attendees introduced themselves by stating their real names for record.
• chem|st was appointed the Chair of the meeting, and juiceme was appointed the Secretaty.
• The assembly accepted articles of incorporation and the association rules unanimously. Thus Maemo Community Association is founded by the present company, and all present are named active members of the community.
• juiceme, nieldk and chem|st were nominated for directors of the association. All accepted the nomaination and were voted unanimously for the position.
• The directors accepted Board's Internal Regulations unanimously
• chem|st was nominated as board's Chairman, juiceme was nominated for Secretary and nieldk was nominated for for Treasurer. All accepted the position and were voted for unanimously.
• The current Maemo Council, consisting of DocScrutinizer05, chem|st and juiceme was nominated for the Council of Maemo Community Association. The vote for council was unanimous.
• juiceme was nominated as Chairman of the Council. He was voted for it unanimously and accepted the nomination.
• It was decreed that with reference to the Statutes and Association Rules passive membership generally is free of any charges. Any payment of fees for active or honoured members is suspended for the time being.
• The board of directors was assigned to do all nescessary steps to register the association at the district court.
• The chairman thanked all assembled and closed the meeting at 21:27 UTC