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Nobody is LARPing an Eingetragener Verein, they're just being one, and the law requires them to have a board and presidium. As they got hundreds of votes on th
by throwaway89201 2mo ago
Nobody is LARPing an Eingetragener Verein, they're just being one, and the law requires them to have a board and presidium.
As they got hundreds of votes on the issue, that means tens of thousands of euros in membership contributions. It doesn't seem unreasonable to want to create a legal entity for that, and an e.V. is easier to set up in the beginning (although it can lead to a lot of drama later).
- nozzlegear 2mo ago[flagged]
- pseudalopex 2mo agoYou are American? American non profit associations must have officers and a board of directors.
- nozzlegear 2mo agoI am, and I'm sure there are rules for non-profits in the US that are just as tedious! Like I said in a different comment, I didn't realize Codeberg had a whole German non-profit thing behind it.
- Valodim 2mo agoThis tends to be necessary as soon as you move any non trivial amount of money around. You can't get a bank account without some bureaucratic overhead
- kps 2mo agoI have German background, so that was a genuine concern for me when I started using Codeberg 3 years ago. It's not a great surprise that they end up being more interested in rulemaking around FOSS hosting than in FOSS hosting itself.
- zem 2mo agohttps://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm is a good look at why taking themselves seriously enough to have a formal governance structure is a good thing for a healthy organisation of any sort.
- anaisbetts 2mo agoGermany requires e.Vs to have democratic governance as a response / reaction to what happened during WW2, where every organization was retooled to run under "Führerprinzip" aka, one person decides everything, zero democracy or accountability. Reconstruction decided this was really fucking bad, and made all organizations required to be the polar opposite