Re: [Guix-europe-sac] General Assembly: 10th June; minutes of 26th May

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 04:52:46PM +0200, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please find the minutes of the General Assembly of 26th May:
> 
> https://framagit.org/guix-europe/guix-europe/-/blob/0a13231ab2d707d6e19beeb490d503dbe9404427/website/minutes/ga-20230526.txt
> 
> Because the Assembly did not reach the quorum, you are invited to the
> next Assembly on June, 10th –  as specificity by our statutes.
> 
> The point #5 of the agenda:
> 
>     5. Name change: Guix Europe -> Guix Foundation
> 
> had not been voted and thus it will be at the next Assembly on June 10th.
> 
> 
> You are welcome to discuss this rename on the guix-europe mailing list.
> Here some other proposals for the rename:
> 
>       * Guix 4 All
>       * Guix assoc
>       * Guix Cabale
>       * Guix Europe
>       * Guix Foundation
>       * Guix Hell
>       * Guix Institute
>       * Guix Organization
>       * Guix PAC (this means "heat pump" in French - "pompe à chaleur")
>       * Guix Sabbath
>       * Guix Society
>       * Guix Undefined
>       * Guix Undelimited
>       * Guix Union
>       * Guix United
>       * Pssst! Guix
>       * The Guix Consortium
>       * Xiug
> 
> Please note that the main motivation for the rename is the
> communication.  When presenting to potential sponsors, our name needs
> 1. to show that we are serious – take things seriously, but not to take
> oneself too seriously – and 2. to cut many details and keep the point
> straight: the association is a non-profit organization supporting Guix.
> 
> Foundation is the common word as in: Free Software Foundation,
> Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Haskell
> Foundation, Rust Foundation, OCaml Software Foundation, Python Software
> Foundation, etc.
> 
> To my knowledge, they are often non-profit organizations and often
> registered as 501(c)(3) under US law [1].
> 
> Now the French boring part. :-) Under the French law, the term
> foundation [2] is translated as “fondation” and means a very specific
> legal structure that we are not – and cannot be.  Therefore, it’s
> possible that the French administration rejects this rename.  However, a
> quick query to the French official publication [3] shows that the term
> foundation is broadly used as name for non-profit: Surfrider Foundation
> Europe, Association Salvation Foundation France, Now And Together
> Foundation France, Paradox Foundation, UPG Foundation, Direct Impact
> Foundation, Capitaine Singe Foundation, etc.
> 
> Therefore, this French law boring specificity does not mean that we
> cannot try. ;-) I mean, if we agree by voting that the rename is worth.
> 
> 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization
> 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(nonprofit)
> 3: 
> https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-recherche/?disjunctive.source&sort=cronosort&q=foundation&q.titre=
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> simon

I expect to be 30-40 minutes late for the meeting, but I should make it
this time.


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