Hi, On 26/04/14 at 23:42 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > 2. The organization should remain loyal to Debian > > See 1. > Going against Debian's best interest now or in the future would not > only be stupid beyond description, it would also wipe out our > collective reputations and remove the common cause that unites us as > DebConf15 team members. > > At Lucas' request, we are working with our German lawyer to add > something like "board members must be DDs" or similar into our > constitution, but this will be a non-trivial legal construct, > especially given that the Verein (association) is legally required to > be an independent legal entity whose highest decision-making body is > the members' assembly. Therefore, it'll be really hard to codify > external influence as requested. For the German tax office, it'll be a > stretch to bestow authority to an international formation such as > Debian, and we certainly want to avoid having to explain what Debian > is and how we make decisions. > Whether we can make this happen or not: the board needs to approve new > members before they can join and thus vote anyway. As a consequence, > hostile take-over is very unlikely. I personally think that this could be enough, but would welcome more opinions on that. Lucas
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature