Preparation of approval of annual activity report 2024

Hello,

with this message, I’d like to inform the board and the community that we will soon start the formal vote for approval of the annual activity report for 2024.

The activity report needs to outline how the foundation fulfilled its objectives and must give a full overview of its activities. The activity report will be sent to the foundation authorities and to the tax office, and will be made public on our website. The legally binding version we have to file is in German. An English version based on the German one will be published as a brochure with additional graphics. The team wrote the English version for approval by the board and then translated it into German.

The close-to-final document has been shared now with the board (Nextcloud folder TDF Board → Budget 2025). It might need a final review and typos fixed, but content-wise, we are done.

For the curious: The report consists of 66 pages with 16.645 words in 127.507 characters.

Thanks to everyone involved, I know it’s quite a burden to write and translate the document!

The vote will be similar to what was done last year:

  • approval of the annual activity report for 2024
  • authorize Florian, to sign and send in the documents to the foundation authorities, the auditor, the accountant and the tax office, on behalf of the board
  • authorize Florian to do any necessary, smaller corrections, if needed; this covers mainly typos

When the vote is done, I will also prepare a German summary of this vote that has to be filed to Berlin.

When the vote starts, it will run for the usual 72h. I plan to start the vote early next week.

Florian

As a reference, this is how the German formal annual report (from 2023) looks like: The Document Foundation Nextcloud

The current draft has the same style and layout.

From my side, the vote can be started. I will do so unless I hear further questions in the next two days.

To avoid to have a vote running over a weekend, and to give everyone time for last checks, I will start this vote next Monday. It will then run for 72 hours.

There will likely be other votes started on Monday that relate to the fiscal year 2024, not only one.