Greetings!
This is the first draft of the foundation meeting
minutes. Please send comments or corrections if
you have any.
Sorry about including only the changed parts of
the regulations, I'll make a translation of the
rest tomorrow.
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Foundation meeting - The Midgard Project Ry
Location:
Taivalmäki 9, 02200 Helsinki, Finland
Time:
April 6th 2000, 18:30
Participants:
Henri Bergius, Eero af Heurlin, Laeticia Söderman, Jukka Zitting
1. Opening of the meeting
Henri Bergius opened the meeting at 18:45.
2. Founding the organization
The meeting decided to found a nonprofit organization named The
Midgard Project Ry to advance progress in the Midgard development
project and to offer the needed services infrastructure for project
contributors.
3. Regulations of the organization
The meeting chose the National Board of Patents and Registration
example regulations template Sääntömalli II as the basis for the
organization's regulations. The following amendments were made to the
example regulations:
1. Name and home place of the organization
The name of the organization is The Midgard Project Ry,
and its home place is Helsinki.
2. The goals of the organization
The purpose of the organization is to advance the development
and usage of the Midgard Web Application environment and
project, and to provide equal opportunities of making use of
the system to both users and developers.
To advance these goals, the organization offers the project
the needed working environment and services infrastructure,
and enhances the knowledgeability of Midgard by publishing
announcements and other material concerning Midgard. The
organization also represents Midgard by participating to
IT industry events and arranging training, PR, and other
events. The organization also offers all contributors of
the Midgard project the needed development environment by
governing the copyrights of the major components of the
Midgard Application Server.
To support its operations, the organization accepts donations
from its supporters and collects membership fees from its
members. In addition, the organization also practices
publishing and sells supplemental products for the project.
6. The board
The daily matters of the organization are handled by the
board, to which belong the chairman nominated in the
yearly meeting, and the amount of other members, at least
two, chosen in the yearly meeting.
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9. Organizational meetings
The yearly meeting of the organization is held yearly
at a date chosen by the board between March and July.
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10. Calling of organizational meetings
The board has to call together the organizational meetings
seven days in advance by either letters sent to all members,
or by an announcement on the organization's Internet services.
4. Membership fees for year 2000
The meeting decided the following fees as the membership fees for year
2000:
Actual (contributing) member: 0 EUR
Supporting member: 100 EUR
Organizatorial supporting member: 1000 EUR
5. Election of chairman and the board
Henri Bergius was chosen as the Chairman of the Board. The board is:
Eero af Heurlin, Laeticia Söderman and Jukka Zitting.
6. Election of accountants
NN was chosen as the accountant of the organization, and NN as the
vice accountant of the organization.
7. Closing the meeting
The Chairman of the Board close the meeting on 19:45
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/Bergie
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-- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius
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