The agenda is final in the sense that proposals requiring a decision by the assembly may not be added any more. However, minor modifications to existing proposals that are clearly within the spirit and purpose of the proposal may be made; proposals may be withdrawn by their proponents; issues may be re-ordered; items not requiring a decision may be added; and candidates for the board may be announced.

1. Procedural issues

1.1. Election of chairman

Assembly begins chaired by Pieter Hintjens (or Hartmut Pilch or Gérald Sédrati-Dinet in case of inability). Antonis Christofides shall be the secretary, and Jonas Maebe and Jan Macek will be the vote counters. Secretary and vote counters may be replaced or appointed by the temporary chairman.

After a chairman is elected, he appoints a secretary and vote counters and chairs the assembly thereafter.

1.2. Member status modification

Until this point, only members that are registered as active in the registry of members kept by the board will be allowed to vote. For any present contributing members or nonmembers who want to be active members but are not marked as such, a vote will be held. New active members will be allowed to vote from the next agenda entry.

1.3. Grant non-members right to attend/talk

2. Exoneration of the board

2.1. Financial report

First the treasurer, Jochen Ahleff, presents the financial report. Then the financial supervisors, Koen Martens, Laura Creighton, and Roland Orre, present their position. We end in a vote on whether the financial report is approved.

2.2. Activity report

The president, Pieter Hintjens, presents the board activity report. We vote on exoneration of the board.

3. Statute changes

The president, Pieter Hintjens, will present a set of amendments to the association's statutes. We will discuss each of these amendments, and then vote on each one. All amendments are subject to approval by the German fiscal authorities insofar as they may affect our tax-free status.

In the amendments, normal text is as it is in the [ffii:www:Statutes statutes]; overstrike is text proposed for deletion; and bold text is text proposed for insertion. Numbering has been automatically added and may be wrong.

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3.1. Amendment 1: Remove reference to free software

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3.2. Amendment 2: Clarification of membership process

Current text

3.3. Amendment 3: Clarification of membership termination

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3.4. Amendment 4: General Assembly location

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3.5. Amendment 5: Definition of a GA proposal

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3.6. Amendment 6: Board lifecycle

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3.7. Amendment 7: Donors and supporters

Current text

3.8. Amendment 8: Affiliate association interface

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4. Other issues

4.1. Modification of annual membership fee

It is proposed to modify the annual membership fee from 12.78 to 15.00 or 20.00 euros.

4.2. Locations where General Assemblies are allowed

This will be discussed only if Amendment 4 gets through.

The proposal is to allow General Assemblies in Brussels, Belgium.

4.3. Employee/intern

Proposal by Georg Jakob: Discuss and decide on if FFII should get an employee/intern to deal with administrative work, including funding (womehow that includes also possible alternatives, like setting up working groups).

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4.4. Newsletter

Proposal by George Jakob: Try to get out a newsletter each month.

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5. Election of board members

5.1. Election of vice president

5.2. Election of treasurer

5.3. Election of secretary

5.4. Election of simple member 1

5.5. Election of simple member 2

6. Election of other positions

6.1. Election of financial controllers

6.2. Election of election commissioner