Hi Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> writes:
> Richard Darst dijo [Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:23:56AM -0400]: >> FWIW, I haven't been too active but I have been paying attention. >> Local team has well done their due, listened to disadvantages >> presented, and at least I agree now that an association is a >> reasonable thing to do. Hopefully other people from the team can >> weigh in on if that was decided or not. >> >> >> Aside for local team: will you be wanting non-swiss sponsors to pay >> directly to dc13 organization, or go through SPI/FFIS/other >> organizations like usual? (... related tax, financial >> implications...) > > I will basically AOL richard on this - From what I have read on this > thread, and from what we have already discussed about the topic > elsewhere, I stand behind what seems to be the consensus of the Swiss > integrants of our team. Even if it sounds backwards to me to form a > new association given we already have one in the same geographic area, > we have often followed the local country's customs for administrative > issues. > > The recommendation to establish a DC13 association does not sound in > any way improvised; it has been well thought-out and defended. The > specifics on whether it should be an AG or a Gmbh seem (to me) also > quite settled on an AG. > > Although, yes, listening to Stefano's reccomendations (and Marc's > answer), we should make sure it's as clear as possible that this > organization should not live forever (i.e. be limited in its bylaws > that its sole purpose is to organize DC13 on August 2013, finish off > its pending items, and disappear in a puff of good accounting). Just as a short update. During the last meeting last Wednesday we decided to create the "DebConf 13 Association". The bylwas we agreed upon will be commited to the debconf-data repository soon. We will also post complete minutes to the list as soon as they are ready. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
