Agenda Thirteenth General Assembly

Decisions made are highlighted in Red below. See Foswiki-GA-IRC-logs.txt for details.

Time and Place

The 13th General Assembly will be virtual, using IRC channel #foswiki-association on the libera network.

If you cannot be present at the General Assembly, you can still use proxy participation according to the articles.

Time & Date

• 1st March 2024, 1300 UTC timezone overview

Locations

• IRC, Libera, #foswiki-association

Current Chair and Board

Chair	LynnwoodBrown
Treasurer	MichaelDaum
Member	MichaelDaum
Member	WolframLimper

Agenda

(Appoint minute taker)

I. Call for Quorum

Please send an email to the board if you cannot make it to the Assembly. Each member present can represent up to two other members.
Quorum confirmed.

Representations

The following active members ask to be represented according to § 9.7 of the AssociationArticles.

Active Member	Represented by	Scope
...	...	...

II. Election of two vote counters

Please see AssociationVoting for the different options regarding how to vote.

At 15 minutes prior to the GA no vote counters are required: the election will be uncontested and no other formal votes are on the table.
Voting to be open (show of hands) so no counters required.

III. Induction of new members

As Article 5 says that new members must be proposed by a member and supported by two additional existing members

At the day of the G.A. these are

Name	Proposed By	Supported By 1	Supported By 2

IV. Consideration of Proposed Changes to Association Articles

• Change of the association address: formerly Hannover, proposed new location Hamburg
  • Proposal approved.

V. Election of the of the Board of Directors and substitute members

We elect three board members this time with these members standing down two-year term

Current board members agreed to continue and were approved by acclamation.

VI. Non-Board Auditors / Financial Report

Financial Statement

MichaelDaum presents

• Community.Finance.FinancialStatement2022
• Community.Finance.FinancialStatement2023

Auditors report

LynnwoodBrown reviewed financials and attested to accuracy of above financial statements.

Acceptance of financial statement can happen by open vote (clap of hands is normal unless there are objections).

Financials approved.

Election of one auditor for the next year

(The auditor has the duty to review the accounts when the financial year is over.)

The election can happen by open vote (clap of hands is normal unless there are objections).

VII. Proposals received from the members for Bylaws

Vote for each of the ByLaws suggested.

No changed to bylaws proposed.

VIII. Misc

The GA for next year is planned for:

• March 3 2025, 13:00 UTC

See: AgendaSixthGeneralAssembly#GaDates for the reasoning behind the dates chosen.

IX. Closing