[DECISION] Approve letter to Berlin authorities, authorize Florian to send

Hello,

the following decision, which has been taken in private on 2024-08-12, is now made public in accordance with our statutes.

The text of the letter is not published yet, as it is an ongoing legal matter.

Florian

with the change of the board composition, I now propose the following VOTE again:

  1. The board approves the following (German) text as reply to the Berlin authorities.

  2. The board authorizes Florian to send it on behalf of TDF.

The vote runs 72h from now.

The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders (not including deputies). In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 or more of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4.

A total of 5 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote.

The vote is quorate.

Result of vote:
5 approvals: Paolo, Italo, Sophie, Osvaldo, Eliane; deputy Mike supports the motion as well
0 abstain
0 disapprovals

Decision: The proposal has been accepted.

Where is the archive of outgoing TDF correspondence, in which we can find a copy of that letter?

We don’t publish in- and outgoing correspondence, at least yet. As you see from all the recent publications, I am a big fan of transparency. However, in general publishing all documents is maybe not what’s feasible, that’s why the statutes also limit what needs to be published.

It at least requires quite some time to make proper redactions and review all the documents, to not expose personal details, which in light of the current situation at TDF is something hard to afford.

The document refered here was about an ongoing legal situation where TDF is in touch with the authorities. That alone makes publishing documents harder, even more because TDF community members are involved in this situation.

If you have any references how other organizations publish their documents I‘d be interested in a pointer.