Re: Salary details (was Re: supporting our fellowship representative)

2018-08-28 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Paul, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 14:30:22 schrieb Paul Boddie: > In effect, searching for the legal filings for non-profit/tax-exempt > organisations should yield salary information. It is possible that some > salary details do not have to be reported on an individual basis, but under > the reg

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Christian Kalkhoff
Hi Luke, Am Dienstag, 28. August 2018, 10:18:11 CEST schrieb lukerog...@tutanota.com: > No more elections? My fellowship contribution isn't going to FSFE next > year, give the money to a local group where everything is done by > volunteers and not careerists in Berlin. Thank your ongoing willing

Re: terminating memberships responsibly (was: please be excellent to each other (Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation))

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/08/18 09:27, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 09:25:08 schrieb Daniel Pocock: >> When council included a motion in the agenda of the extraordinary >> general meeting calling for the immediate termination of my membership, >> that was not "being excellent t

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi all, Am 28. August 2018 15:04:42 MESZ schrieb Joe Awni : >As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a >staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on >fsfe.org I don't know how you come to that conclusion. FSFE existed for years before the supporti

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Mirko Boehm
Thank you for your careful and civil contribution to this discussion, Paul. Mirko. > On 28. Aug 2018, at 07:28, Paul Boddie wrote: > > On Tuesday 28. August 2018 15.32.24 Reinhard Müller wrote: >> >> Am 2018-08-28 um 15:04 schrieb Joe Awni: >>> As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my i

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 28. August 2018 15.32.24 Reinhard Müller wrote: > > Am 2018-08-28 um 15:04 schrieb Joe Awni: > > As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a > > staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on > > fsfe.org . > > I guess that

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Reinhard Müller
Hi, Am 2018-08-28 um 15:04 schrieb Joe Awni: > As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a > staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on > fsfe.org . I guess that you know how offending this is to the numerous volunteers in FSFE, e

Re: to git or not to git

2018-08-28 Thread Carsten Agger
On 08/28/2018 01:19 AM, Guido Arnold wrote: What I see as the crucial part is the "social" component. I'm afraid this somewhat derails Alessandro's intended discussion as my point totally ignores "who" the current owner of github is. If you have a project and are looking for more developers t

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Joe Awni
As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on fsfe.org . On 28 Aug 2018 11:09, "Bernhard Reiter" wrote: Hi Luke, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 10:18:11 schrieb lukerog...@tutanota.com: > I never saw an asso

Salary details (was Re: supporting our fellowship representative)

2018-08-28 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 28. August 2018 11.09.09 Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 10:18:11 schrieb lukerog...@tutanota.com: > > The FSFE transparency pages are hilarious. FSFE chose the transparency > > checklist from Transparency International because it lets them have > > transparency c

Re: to git or not to git

2018-08-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:36 PM Alessandro Rubini wrote: > So, besides self-hosting (unfeasible for whole-kernel repos) I moved > to github. Well, not using it other than as a git repo why should I > care that the code (that I do not use) is not free? if you're not using the other pieces of gi

Re: github and the like (Re: to git or not to git)

2018-08-28 Thread mray
On 28.08.2018 09:29, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 01:19:54 schrieb Guido Arnold: >> We need a decentralized infrastructure that makes their intentions >> irrelevant. > > This is the direction where I believe we must head. > Just want to throw in a relevant link to a p

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Luke, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 10:18:11 schrieb lukerog...@tutanota.com: > I never saw an association cancel the elections.  Is that legal? that is only part of the story: Legally there is an association based on German law to support FSFE's work where we have chosen a minimal approach for m

Re: please be excellent to each other (Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation)

2018-08-28 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Hi Daniel, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 09:25:08 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > When council included a motion in the agenda of the extraordinary > general meeting calling for the immediate termination of my membership, > that was not "being excellent to each other". any organisation(+) reserves the righ

supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread lukerogers
What I'm reading in this mailing list is scary I never saw an association cancel the elections.  Is that legal? I want to give my full support to Daniel Pocock and commend him for his tenacity in the pursuit of transparency and truth.  It looks like the GA is full of yes-men but Pocock is the

Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation

2018-08-28 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Daniel, I have been watching your rants on FSFE list and in other places for a significant amount of time. Like others, I do believe your intentions are good, but your tone and behaviour is not constructive at all. Actually, I think you're damaging/discrediting your own position by the agressi

github and the like (Re: to git or not to git)

2018-08-28 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 01:19:54 schrieb Guido Arnold: > We need a decentralized infrastructure that makes their intentions > irrelevant. This is the direction where I believe we must head. However while doing so, as always in a long struggle, we need to be pragmatic. So each of us shall take

Re: please be excellent to each other (Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation)

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/08/18 16:02, Erik Albers wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I like to believe that your activities and communication are with good > intention and you like to change things for the good. However, you should keep > in mind that we are a organically grown organization with an established > communication a