[maemo-community] 2014-02-25 Meeting Minutes

[From: Niel Nielsen]

Well, I am not so absolutely coninced about the liablity for Directors in
EU...
First of all, EU is kinda like The States.
We have the regulations set by EU, which member states are supposed to
coprehend to.
But, there are individual governance in each member state (ie Germany,
Denmark) which does differ on some areas.
Therefore, it is not only EU regulations, but also Country regulations/laws
that needs to be adressed.
In Denmark, there indeed is liabilty for Directors, they could be jailed
for serious issues. Same for Board directors.

I really think this needs to be adressed and for sure is something to
consider for anyone wanting to be Director/Founder.

There is a study on this, located here.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/company/docs/board/2013-study-analysis_en.pdf

/NielDK

PS. I still will stand up :)


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:59 PM, juice <juice at swagman.org> wrote:

> 2014-02-25 Meeting Minutes
> 2014-02-28 10:55 UTC by Jussi Ohenoja
>
> Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs:
> http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclog/%23maemo-meeting.2014-02-25.log.html
> )
>
> Attending: Joerg Reisenweber (DocScrutinizer05), Ruediger Schiller
> (chem|st), Gido Griese (Win7Mac), Paul Healy (sixwheeledbeast), Jussi
> Ohenoja (juiceme).
>
> Absent:
>
> Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
> - Discussion on moving Hildon Foundation to a german e.V.
>
> Topic  (Discussion on moving Hildon Foundation to a german e.V.):
>
>   - Win7Mac has consulted a lawyer on the responsibilities of directors of
> an E.v. and the extents of liability. It seems that directors are "only
> liable for damage by gross negligence and intent" so there propably is no
> need for an extra insurance for the directors. There was some general talk
> over liability, and juiceme asked if there is any possibility that in EU
> there could be similar threat of litigation that Woody was fearing could
> happen to HiFo in US. General consensus seems to be that it is not likely.
>
>   - chem|st asked if Win7Mac will take care of the "Nokia" statements all
> over the website, and check that there are no unappropriate binaries in
> repositories.
>
>   - Win7Mac presented the work-on-progress for the changing of names/terms
> in the legal documentation on the website:
>
>       - Contribution Guidelines: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/VkZSfdJhCI
>       - Terms + Conditions: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tIXtr7R0nI
>       - Privacy Policy: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/oKCqgAcoTP
>
>   - Win7Mac told that when the documenation has been finished it will be
> reviewed again by a lawyer, and should be finalized by friday this week.
>
> Action Items:
>     N/A
>
>
> --
>    - Juice -
>
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