Documents relating to the establishment of the association

Hello Operaton Community,

It took a long time, but we have now received the necessary documents for founding the association from the lawyer and can discuss them.

You can read and comment on the statutes here (Google Docs).
There are also rules of procedure, which you can read and comment on here (Google Docs).

Since the association is to be registered in Germany, the documents are written in German. You are welcome to translate them yourself.

If you have general questions about setting up an association, feel free to ask them here in the forum or join our Slack channel.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Ah yes, the good old german association :slight_smile:

I remember doing a similar thing for the FAForever project, but we did it without a lawyer (and eventually decided to not do it in Germany because too much hassle). So I’m curious: is this draft assumed to be sufficient to become considered sufficient “Gemeinnützig nach deutscher AO” by the lawyer? We were on a lost cause due to supporting gaming, but we read up a lot.

One thing I remember was, that we added a dedicated clause for what happens if the e.V. dissolves itself, making sure that all property is gifted to another association preferably already considered “gemeinnützig”.

Second thing is, that the goals of the association are very narrowly specified to a product. I would expand it to “process management” in general emphasizing on a more broader usage for “the world”.

Third thing: I recall that you need to already lay out that general meetings are to be held online if you want to do such a thing. Law on that has changed a little, but I would recommend going full online right in the statutes? Unless that is not desired.

I throw the whole thing in ChatGPT and it finds a lot more things. I will not list them here, everybody can do that. But it pointed out the same things a nd a little bit more about payment of the board members and brand usage.

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