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#21
Originally Posted by szopin View Post
The body speaks of active (where participation in meetings is the only thing that is clearly stated) members vs passive. Wrong link?
When did normal TMOers become irregular?
That was, at an early stage, an unfortunate wording I personally never liked. I used it basically to differentiate between active (regular) members and associated (you name it) members.

Some more info to be found in this thread.
Actual diagramm:
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What is the current state of HiFo's negotiations with Nokia?
The agreement has been signed but will be in effect only if the stipulation to amend the legal documents has been met. This is partially done, remaining items:
> TM Terms Of Use - (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/UHGCJQIeQA)
> TM Usage Guidelines - (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mHZKczF0y1)
> TM FAQ - (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/AIc3c8Bnhe)
This is in the works and will hopefully be completed this weekend.

> maemo.org also needs some of the pages (like maemo.org/intro/) incl. its' sublevels to be altered since some content and links are obsolete. Community-support to fix this is highly appreciated.

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What is the state of MCeV?
MCeV has been established and is awaiting handover of HiFo assets.

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Is MCeV currently owner/operator/whatever of anything (Maemo-related)?
Not yet, only after handover is completed.

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Has there been consensus (in the past) to replace HiFo with MCeV?
yes

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what is the state of 'negotiations' between HiFo and MCeV?
There are no real negotiations between the two, HiFo is willing to handover assets and MCeV is willing to accept.

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What other problems are there that prevent things from moving forward? Banks have been mentioned. What else?
Most and foremost joerg and his indiscriminate, destructive behaviour. This will be a matter of the past though if Council finally decides to discard him for good, which is expected to happen in next meeting next tuesday.
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Thanks to warfare, all legal documents have been amended and are awaiting review by Nokia.
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Legal documents have been acknowledged by Nokia.
Expect an official announcement on maemo.org soon.
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#25
Please visit maemo.org and note that
“Nokia Corporation and Hildon Foundation have announced an agreement..."
This announcement will show on the welcome page for at least 3 months and may then be replaced (ideas for improvement (within midgard bonds) much appreciated).
We now are 100% on our own and HiFo is holding Maemo trademarks, the Maemo community website, domain names and trademark applications incl. the server HW.

EDIT:
Announcement of the agreement placed on the Hildon Foundation webpage as well:
http://hildonfoundation.org/agreemen...ion-announced/
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Thankfully, things are evolving and there is some progress to report:

The annual MC e.V. General Assembly has had a meeting and is proud to welcome a new director: warfare aka fstern!
Thanks for taking resposibility, Falk.

The other good news is that MC e.V. has managed to accuire a bank accout that suits our needs and accepts EU-wide access. This was a troublesome issue from the start and it's even the more enlightening to see this problem solved. A paypal-account hopefully will be ready soon too, so donations can easily be made again.

Also, the MC e.V. wiki page has seen a major update. Particularly, a guide on how to hold a General Assembly has been added: http://wiki.maemo.org/MaemoCommunity_eV

The most demanding task now is to properly take down HiFo. This is an endeavour hardly manageable from outside the US, and since US members of HiFo are hardly around anymore, this may won't be an easy task... which might easily end up very costly, in worst case. So if you are residing in the US and have some knowledge on how to deal with associations and/or tax declarations, pease contact board(at)hildonfoundation(dot)org, me or council.

For any questions regarding MC e.V. internals, please put them over here.
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#27
Short update:
HiFo Board just had a mixed meeting with 2 MC e.V. Board members present.
A Corporate Resolution to transfer monies to MCeV and to close the Hildon Foundation bank account has been approved as well as to proceed with a transfer of all rights, responsibilities and remaining assets to MCeV.

link: meeting minutes
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MC e.V. Board just confirmed they received a wire transfer from HiFo.
MC e.V. bank account now holds a balance of 2.895,52 EURO.
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#29
Here's an overview of supposedly all money transactions that been made to/by HiFo:


Summary:
There never been an official HiFo Paypal-account, Former Treasurer (zehjotkah) held a private Paypal account (in EURO, not US$) which was used instead. After the donation period, for practical reasons, the Paypal account was closed (paid to his private bank account), from there the IPHH bill was paid. The rest was then sent to HiFos' First Niagara Bank via wire transfer which again was subject to fees. The records for that are inaccurate but of minor importance since the amounts are negligible.

Nevertheless, within a few weeks an awesome amount of ~4.925,- US$ has been donated in order to keep our infra stay alive. After Paypal took its' revenue (242,- US$), 4.683,- US$ were raised. The expenses boil down to 1 server switch (Hardware), 2 IPHH bills (Hosting) and hiring a lawyer for legal advise to instate MC e.V. and its' Bylaws. Fees and conversion rates all together (incl. Paypal) sadly ate up ~625,- US$. The rest, 3.303,- US$ has been transferred to MC e.V., who finally received 2.905,52 EURO (at an exchange rate of 1,1368$:1€).
On the sunny side, recent slide in US$/€ exchange rate gave us quite some profit.

MC e.V. expenses continue with costs for notary and postal services and renewal for server hosting at IPHH (already advanced privately by fstern), which will likely be less than 200,- EURO in total.

So at least, we finally shall pay no silly fees and conversion rates anymore...
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