[DECISION] Revoke "Legal review of the MC decision" regarding a membership refusal

[floeff]

Hello,

the following decision, that was taken in private today, is now made public in accordance with our statutes:

sophi wrote on 03.09.24 at 12:06:

I call for the following VOTE:

The board revokes the “Legal review of the MC decision”, taken on 2023-09-16, regarding a membership refusal.

This 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: Eliane, Sophie, Italo, Paolo, Osvaldo; deputy Mike supports the motion as well
0 abstain
0 disapprovals

Decision: The proposal has been accepted.

Florian

[sophi]

Dear membership committee,

Before your term ends in a few days I wanted to apologize for what has happened to you.

I am still very concerned that the former board voted on a legal review of a decision you took regarding a membership refusal. You told the community that you felt undue pressure and that three of you had no other option than abstaining from voting on this membership.

To be put under such kind of pressure, as a volunteer who works in their spare time and who always did so much for our community, I can only imagine how horrible this must be. This is not the way I want to work with our community. This is not the way volunteers should be treated.

I want to thank you for all your work during the past years. Some of you served us for many years, when TDF went through hard times.
Me and other members of the new board will do all we can so that something like you had to experience will never happen again. We will work hard on a warm, welcoming and friendly environment.

Thank you for all your work, please accept my deep apologies, I’m looking forward to meeting you soon at one of our community events!
Sophie

[EyalRozenberg]

1. Why the 7-month delay in taking this decision?
2. What happened with the execution of this decision, for the past year (and especially before the current BoD assumed office)?

[EyalRozenberg]

Also, can you please link to the original session minutes containing the decision?