From: Volker Merschmann <merschmann@gmail.com>
To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 11:02:56
Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About electionsHi,
>>
>> I think 100 is still quite small compared to the numbers of people
>> actually
>> involved. So the list of members is still more like a special-interest
>> sub-set. The founder members are doing a great job and i hope that they
>> stay in
>> place for a long while yet.
>
> thanks for the flowers, as we say in Germany.
>
> Well, there are two things:
> The steering committee has to end its existence one year after being set in
> place, which would be, depending on how that needs to be counted, either
end
> of August, or September 28th.
>
> In addition, to set up the Foundation in Germany, we need to provide the
> names of the legal representatives. As we hope to have the legal paperwork
> finished soon, we also need those names. So, maybe waiting one or two more
> weeks is possible, but given that we have been accepting members for a few
> weeks already, I guess the time that is right will come soon
>
I'd like to add that not every contributor wants to be a member of the
foundation. Especially those who are payed for the work might not like
to have a too personal connection.We can ask the membership committee if there is a reasonable number of
applications left which can be finished in the next days.
Else we should go ahead for the reasons given by Florian.Volker
Hi
+1
Companies do reasonably often pay shares to employees. This would be slightly
different in that the 'shares' do not give a pay-out but similar in that they
give workers a say in the organisation. I think paid workers should be
encouraged to become members but obviously it is their choice.
Regards from
Tom