As one of its tasks, the current board is looking into decisions and meeting minutes taken in the past that were not yet published according to our statutes. What follows are previously private minutes from the 2023-08-07 meeting of the previous board, which are now made public. Some elements in the minutes might be redacted as there is a need for confidentiality, or as individuals are mentioned in specific contexts.
Disclaimer: The following private minutes from the previous board are published as is. They have not necessarily been confirmed by the respective session’s chairperson or keeper of the minutes, nor approved by the respective board.
7. Discuss: Last minute item(s) (tdf-board, 5 mins)
Rationale: if there is time left, and anything is popping up after sending the agenda
- annual closing has been shared (Florian)
- might there will be more details
- auditor did no statement on validity of the budget
- word protocol based on recording last monday
- share always word protocol with MC (Thorsten)
- matters shared to be in the protocol
- will take a while, is over 14.000 characters
- produce minutes to share
- share a draft labelled as such (Thorsten)
- [REDACTED: 14 lines of sensitive discussion regarding audit]
- clear legal advice to work on a lot of things (Cor)
- takes more dicussions now
- when an auditor founds sth normally he asks for clarification
- is a serious work, a lot of effort Florian put there
- we all know totally what’s going on (Paolo)
- [REDACTED: sensitive statement regarding audit]
- actions of the board are not following legal advice
- a lot of facepalming about what the board is doing
Cor left 17:18
- [REDACTED: 24 lines of sensitive discussion regarding audit]
- nothing shared yet (Florian)
- fear a bad outcome
- refering to [REDACTED: name of lawyer or law firm] report
- losing non profit
- double meaning of out statutes (Laszlo)
- was this shared with [REDACTED: name of lawyer or law firm]
- is only one meaning
- checked the report wrt trademark issues
- was not part of [REDACTED: name of lawyer or law firm] investigation
- is not the biggest issue
- maybe status of [REDACTED: name of a community member] is a bigger issue
- hope we get more preliminary information
- what is interpretation of aout statutes
- translation of ‘free of charge’ is a wrong translation
- [REDACTED: name of lawyer or law firm] is informed about this double meaning
- do not think auditor will share preliminary outcome (Florian)
- auditor makes a final statement
- [REDACTED: name of lawyer or law firm] had a look at statutes
- having the same idea as others
- [REDACTED: 3 lines of sensitive discussion regarding audit]
The private meeting ends at 17:14 UTC / 19:41 Berlin time.