I'm reading the wiki page CommunityBylaws, and I'm confused. It says "These Bylaws do not apply to the actual structure and governance of The Document Foundation as a legal entity (...)".
But then they go on doing exactly that. For example, they explain how the Board of Directors is elected, and by whom. The board of directors is AFAIK usually the people responsible to the law / state / courts that e.g. the money of the foundation is used in accordance to the goals of the foundation. For the TDF, that would for example be "not to feed the poor starving children of Bangladesh", which may be a good worthy cause in its own right, but not within the TDF's goals. http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/05/24/updates-on-the-foundation/ (the latest such update I found) says the foundation will be in Germany. I notice that on the wiki page CommunityBylaws/de, BoD is "Vorstand". Furthermore, according to the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), the "Vorstand" is: 1) An entity mandated by law 2) _by_ _definition_ the body that represents the foundation _as_ _a_ _legal_ _entity_ References from http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/: §26 BGB: (1) Der Verein muss einen Vorstand haben. Der Vorstand vertritt den Verein gerichtlich und außergerichtlich (...) §86 BGB: Die Vorschriften der §§ 26 und (...) finden auf Stiftungen entsprechende Anwendung (...) So to me, it is factual that the Bylaws *do* speak about the "actual structure and governance of The Document Foundation as a legal entity": they speak about the composition of the BoD, and the BoD is part of the structure of the foundation as a legal entity, and by law the BoD must be involved in the "governance of the foundation as a legal entity". Other examples: * The Chairperson (CH) is in charge of representing the Foundation. * The Executive Director [ED] is an Officer of the Foundation who is in charge of running the Foundation's daily operations To me, these (among others) speak of "the actual structure and governance of The Document Foundation". Best Regards, -- Lionel Mamane -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
