Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 12 June 2006 23:54, Francisco Reyes wrote: > >> Kern Sibbald writes: >> >>> simple to do. To open a bank account, I need only a set of articles of >>> association, which define the objective of the association and the >>> persons who are the directors of the association. These articles of >>> association can also include any special considerations, such as >>> restrictions, who can be members, ... Certain documents for the bank >>> account will be in French since that is the official language here. >>> However, the articles of association will be written in English. >>> >> What would be required for those to join? >> > > I believe that everyone should be equal, something terribly lacking in this > world at the moment. However, the articles of association are somewhat like > the articles of incorporation. They must spell out who governs the > association and how those persons get into their possitions. This most > likely means that members of this association must be elected by either a > board or by a members meeting. If I am not mistaken, Debian and Apache have > clauses similar to this. > > There is great deal of info available at The Center for Association Leadership (http://www.asaecenter.org/). This is, by the way, an international association in itself.
Have you contacted FSF Europe (http://www.fsfeurope.org/)? They might have some useful info or be able to point you in the right direction. >>> I intend to create these articles of association for Bacula, which is the >>> reason I am writing this email. I can, of course, do it myself, but I >>> would much rather have the participation and input of the Bacula users. >>> >> Hm... no examples that coul be found on the web I would think you may be >> able to find samples on small business sites in your country. >> > > This is not a business in a commercial sense, and I prefer to keep it in > English rather than French. All such articles that will be officially > registered in the commercial registry must be in French. The Netherlands is > the only country that permits such articles in English. So I don't intend to > register the association with the commercial registry. This is perfectly OK > in Switzerland. > > I suspect that there are plenty of such articles of association on the web, > but they are usually articles of foundation for a foundation such as for > Apache, Python, ... Though they are not exactly what I want, they will most > likely have the essential elements definining how they are governed, ... > > >> These types of things are very, very country specific. You also need to see >> if there are any restrictions as to who can be part of the association. >> > > Yes, these things are very country specific, but Switzerland doesn't stick > its > nose into private affairs as much as other countries. The laws are pretty > specific for corporations, but for associations, there are almost no > restrictions. They just define what is needed to create an association. This > is no problem as I am *very* famaliar with these kinds of Swiss laws > (unfortunately). > > >>> examples of such documents that already exist for Open Source projects. >>> >> But wouldn't these be legal documents pertinent to the country of the >> assocation? Are those samples for other open source projects in your >> country? >> > > As I mentioned, for associations (as opposed to corporations), the laws here > are not very restrictive. There may be samples of other open source projects > in Switzerland, and I will look, but I doubt there are many if any, and I am > more interested in what Bacula users want. I expect that this association > will decide how the money donated to Bacula is spent, and will probably hold > the copyright to the code, so at least in some small measure, everyone should > have a bit of interest in this. > > I'll get back to everyone in about a week with a few more details about what > the requirements are and what I suggest. > > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
