Hello,
as many of you know, we're right before filing the application for
legally setting up the Foundation.
For the process of filing, it is highly advisable to have a lawyer
assisting us and acting as official point of contact. Not only will some
legal topics come up, but also being represented by a lawyer greatly
helps in being perceived as serious entity by the authorities.
Among the lawyer's tasks there will be the communication with the
authorities, acting on legal questions, and preparing the filing
documents in a way they fit the legal requirements. Unfortunately,
German law makes it very complicated for lawyers to act pro bono on
these kinds of things (which is different to e.g. the US), so we plan to
officially contract a lawyer to assist us.
In order to have legal advice for the process, which might take a few
weeks, I'd like to ask the steering committee to approve a sum of
3.000,- € in total. This is the sum one of our preferred lawyers has
mentioned to us, and given that several hours of work for professional
services have to be invested, I consider that amount very well spent.
Depending on the lawyer and the services used, hourly rates of about
50-150 € are fairly normal in Germany, and I expect the process to take
a few hours of time to be completed, especially given the "speciality"
with the membership we have come up with.
Thoughts welcome.
Florian
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Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation
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