Thanks for the ideas. I have sent an email to the FSF Europe to see if they can help, and will take a closer look at the Center for Association Leadership site.
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:13, Josh Fisher wrote: > 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. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
