TenthGeneralAssemblyMinutes

• 12th December 2019, 13:00--14:11 UTC
• IRC: Freenode, #foswiki-association; Slack: http://foswiki.slack.com/messages/association/details/
• Chair: LynnwoodBrown
• Minute taker: MarkusUeberall

I. Call for Quorum

List of members attending the GA on IRC and Slack:

Name	Status
LynnwoodBrown	active member
GeorgeClark	active member
CrawfordCurrie	active member
MichaelDaum	active member
KennethLavrsen	active member
JulianLevens	active member
MarkusUeberall	active member

We have a quorum (seven of nine active members attending; no proxy representation). This is sufficient for article changes needing qualified majority.

II. Vote counter

KennethLavrsen was appointed by the GA as vote counter (unanimous vote).

III. New Members

(None)

IV. Changes to Association Articles

The following changes to Association Articles have been proposed:

• § 1.2 (Registered Office)
• MotionToSimplifyMembershipCriteria -- § 5.4 (Membership Application and Maintenance of Status), § 10.6 (Duties of the General Assembly), § 11.1 (Board of Directors)
• MotionToClarifyTimingForEGA -- §§ 9.3, 9.6 (General Assembly)

All of the above changes were accepted by unanimous vote.

V. Election of board members

KennethLavrsen and JulianLevens were standing down (as per accepted changes in §11.1).

Up for election were LynnwoodBrown, MichaelDaum and MarkusUeberall. All three were reelected by unanimous vote.

Old/new chairman: LynnwoodBrown, new treasurer: MarkusUeberall (as per decision of the new board members)

VI. Financial Audit

(Note: Previous treasurer JulianLevens prepared FinancialStatement2018 and provided access to all related statements to the auditors prior to this meeting.)

Auditors CrawfordCurrie and GeorgeClark recommended exonerating JulianLevens for 2018. The GA accepted the accounting for 2018 (unanimous vote).

Election of auditor for 2019

KennethLavrsen was appointed as auditor by the GA (unanimous vote).

VII. Bylaws related proposals

There have been no proposals regarding the ByLaws this time.

VIII. Misc

The GA for next year is planned for 05-Jun-2020, 13:00 UTC. See: AgendaSixthGeneralAssembly#GaDates for the reasoning behind the dates chosen.

IX. Closing

The assembly was closed by LynnwoodBrown at 14:11 UTC.