[board-discuss] [DRAFT] Rules of Procedure for the TDF board

2012-09-17 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, in our statutes, §7, (5) permits the board to enact a set of more detailed rules for day-to-day operations, that we felt was too nitty-gritty to be stuck into the statutes. Nevertheless, it is a useful thing to have, if only to clarify how the board operates. I attach a draft that we

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: TDF Statutes -- check over the EN version

2012-09-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Anthony, I disagree. The German text will be the sole one with legal validity, in NZ or elsewhere. And it will be the only text to be evaluated. There is no easy way out of that in case of litigation but that's an established legal practice. If this was a NZ based entity the same would

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: TDF Statutes -- check over the EN version

2012-09-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2012-09-16 16:13: Yes, the exercise is not to make the document sound good, but to fix grammatical/spelling errors in EN, establish a proper form (i.e. title form should be uniform throughout the text) as well as make the document sensible. This, all keeping true to the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: TDF Statutes -- check over the EN version

2012-09-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2012-09-17 10:38: I disagree. The German text will be the sole one with legal validity, in NZ or elsewhere. And it will be the only text to be evaluated. There is no easy way out of that in case of litigation but that's an established legal practice. If this was a

[tdf-discuss] credit card payment

2012-09-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, good news, everyone! I just received the credentials for our new service, so we can accept direct credit card payments in the future. In other words, anyone who wants to donate will be able to do so in the future with his credit card, without using any service like PayPal. It might

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF Statutes -- check over the EN version

2012-09-17 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone, Le 2012-09-12 21:27, Marc Paré a écrit : Hi everyone, I was just re-reading the TDF Statutes web page[1] and would like to suggest that a small group of us review the EN version (translation) from the point of view of syntax, form and readability. I have already made a few

Re: [tdf-discuss] credit card payment

2012-09-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 17/09/12 15:59, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, good news, everyone! I just received the credentials for our new service, so we can accept direct credit card payments in the future. In other words, anyone who wants to donate will be able to do so in the future with his credit card, without