Annual General Assembly - March 2023

Date	4th of March 2023
Hour	20h00 CET
Where	ChaosStuff

Order of the day

Welcome speech

Activity Report 2022

Financial Report 2022

Auditing Report

Budget 2023

Commission Reports

Press Commission

Space Commission

Statute Amendments

Review & Foresight by metalgamer

Elections

Financial Auditors

Commissions

Press Commission

Administrative Council

Secretary & Treasurer

President

Miscellaneous

Closing Event

Note: The order of the day can be changed until the 17th of Feb 2023 at 23h59.

Minutes

metalgamer open this general assembly at 20:27 CET.

Welcome speech

metalgamer: Welcome to the annual GA of 2023.

Activity report 2022

metalgamer: It was mostly quiet, we took part in the Makerfaire (we had a stand) and also organized a local viewing for the JEV.

Most of the active members had a lot going on (kids, moving, health, etc.), which resulted in less activity in the space.

Aktivitéits Bericht 2022

Financial report 2022

virii: We got less money from membership fees, as the mail script was activated late and we lost some members, and also got less from Food & Drinks because of lack of activity in the ChaosStuff. This results in a reduced amount of income for those two, but most of the income is from Donations to begin with. Of which, the VDL subsidies increased a bit.

Our current financial situation is such that we can't allow ourselves to buy a server, but we have some money in case of issues.

When sending your membership fees, please do not combine it with other payments (food, donations, etc.), it makes accounting much more difficult.

If you didn't receive an e-mail, contact virii to verify your entry in the members DB.

2022

Auditing Report

alain: Everything is OK, some of the expenses are confusingly categorized because of PayPal issues.

(peter was not present but had auditied the finances before the GA.)

Budget 2023

virii: Do more projects!

You can open a ticket on the RT for funding.

Commission Reports

Space Commissions

metalgamer: Nothing really happened this year. In case of issues, it goes over the request tracker.

Press Commission

metalgamer: Similarly to last years: 17 press appearances.

Most of them were in regards to Chat Control (in May), in regards to which we had published a press release titled "Chatkontroll - D'Kaz ass aus dem Sak".

Other than that, not much happened in the press. "Standard business".

It was later mentioned (during the survey part) that we mostly stopped posting on Twitter and started using Mastodon instead.

Statute Amendments

metalgamer: None were sent in.

Review & Foresight by metalgamer

Review

Review has been done previously during the meeting.

Foresight

Meetings / MeetUps

After having spent most of the meeting/meetup evenings here alone, we've modified the frequency of these to 1 per month. We're hoping that once most things calm down, for instance moving, people will show up more often. It is also appreciated that people inform us in case they can't not show up.

C3L services

RT, as well as other services have a lack of activity. I think that as the DDS, we should also look at automating the creation of accounts of those services. (RT, etc.) We should "streamline, as business says" these processes internally.

Survey

virii wants members to survey members to chat about what they want and expect from the Space.

Note that the following is a very rough transcript (of ideas) and a lot of shortcuts and artistic liberties were taken.

virii

virii:

…

fantawams:

metalgamer:

virii: Keep it simple, stupid (note: there is an old one, but it is somewhat out of date)

metalgamer:

orimpe

orimpe:

virii: (He follows by giving an example, not transcribed of brevity's sake). deflenken

deflenken: …

orimpe (responding to a question):

virii:

deflenken: …

deflenken

deflenken:

metalgamer:

alain:

metalgamer:

metalgamer

metalgamer: C3L

fantawams

fantawams:

orimpe:

fantawams:

C3L

metalgamer:

virii:

fantawams

fantawams:

virii:

orimpe:

xbr

virii:

deflenken:

xbr:

metalgamer:

orimpe: xbr (remote)

metalgamer:

virii:

alain:

virii:

metalgamer:

Other member:

metalgamer:

jonas

virii:

jonaszenjev:

Other members:

jonaszenjev:

metalgamer: …

virii: (Note: the door closes sometimes randomly)

Other members:

metalgamer:

fantawams:

metalgamer:

Elections

Financial Auditors

Candidates
fantawams
orimpe

metalgamer: We only have 2 candidates, no one brought up a complaint, they are accepted.

Commissions

Press Commission

Candidate	Votes
virii	10 YAY / 0 NAY / 0 MEH
metalgamer	10 YAY / 0 NAY / 0 MEH

Administrative Council

Treasurer

Candidate	Votes
virii	10 YAY / 0 NAY / 0 MEH

virii: I've been doing this since when?

metalgamer: 2013.

virii: That's a long time, I'm starting to find it bothersome and a lot of work.

Secretary

Candidate	Votes
x	10 YAY / 0 NAY / 0 MEH

President

Candidate	Votes
metalgamer	10 YAY / 0 NAY / 0 MEH

Miscellaneous

(Various topics, acted as a kind of censored round)

virii: We should look at the C3L Manifesto.

Closing Event

metalgamer closes the general assembly at 22:22 CET.