Organization-e.V.

The current organization for OE is a German e.V. legal entity (similar to KDE: http://ev.kde.org/) and is for the purpose of managing finances, voting, and membership.
An 'e.V.' for 'eingetragener Verein', in the German law, translates to a voluntary organization; a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose. The organization has members.
The OpenEmbedded e.V. statues are located here: http://docs.openembedded.org/organization/2008-11-22_statutes-de.pdf
A bablefish translation is here -- could German speaking folks please clean this up: OpenEmbedded e.V. Statutes
During FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels, Belgium, a group of founding members physically gathered to get the paperwork going.
= The current board of directors =
* Philip Balister
* Treasurer Armin Kuster
* Denys Dmytriyenko
* Sean Hudson
= Current Members =
(please keep in alphabetical order)
# Anders Darander 
# Andrea Adami
# Andrea Galbusera
# Andrei Gherzan
# Apelete Seketeli
# Armin Kuster
# Bruce Ashfield
# Changhyeok Bae
# Dave Stewart
# Denys Dmytriyenko
# Elizabeth Flanagan
# Gary Thomas
# Graeme Gregory
# Henning Heinold
# Jeff Osier-Mixon 
# Khem Raj
# Koen Kooi
# Leon Woestenberg
# Marco Cavallini
# Mark Hatle
# Martin Jansa
# Michael Halstead
# Nicolas Dechesne
# Otavio Salvador
# Paul Eggleton
# Peter Kjellerstedt
# Philip Balister
# Richard Purdie
# Ross Burton
# Saul Wold
# Sean Hudson
# Tim Orling
# Trevor Woerner
= Inactive Members =
(please keep in alphabetical order)
# Alessandro Gardich
# Andreas Oberritter
# Chris Larson
# Cliff Brake
# Daniel Willmann
# Dirk Hohndel
# Dirk Opfer
# Dmitry Eremin­Solenikov
# Eric Bénard
# Esben Haabendal
# Florian Boor
# Frans Meulenbroeks
# Graham Gower
# Holger Freyther
# Jack Mitchell
# Jan Lübbe
# Jason Kridner
# John Willis
# Joshua Lock
# Ken Gilmer
# Liam Girdwood
# Marcin Juszkiewicz
# Mark Brown
# Michael Lauer
# Michael Smith
# Philip Blundell
# Phillip Zabel
# Robert Schuster
# Roman I Khimov
# Scott Garman
# Simon Busch
# Stefan Schmidt
# Steve Sakoman
# Tom King
# Tom Rini 
# Ulf Samuelsson
# Yu Ke 
# Yury Bushmelev
= TSC =
The e.V. installed the TSC to make technical steering of the project easier.
= OE Developers =
Openembedded Developers are people who have submitted code into any of the OpenEmbedded repositories. Due to the nature of OE, there are many developers, and also many different components. A good place to start is the list of git repositories . See OpenEmbedded Developers for a list of current developers.
= Todo =
* process for adding new members
* process for voting
* responsibility of the board
* conflict resolution
= Pointers for Board Members =
* Checklist for the General Assembly
= Online Voting Policy =
* Online Voting Policy
= Faq =
; Are contributions tax deductible?
: Yes they are. 
; Should I become member of the OE e.V.?
: If you are contributing to OE frequently and/or you are interested in getting involved in administrative or organisational tasks it might be a good idea to join OE e.V.
; How do I become member of the OE e.V.?
: Let an existing member introduce you by sending a short introduction to the 'ev' mailinglist. If you don't know one get in touch with us on the development mailinglist or IRC first. The e.V. is open for anyone to join and its not meant to be an exclusive club of a few developers. 
; Is there a membership fee?
: Whist an e.V. can define a membership fee, the project has not chosen to set one.
= General Assemblies =
; * Prague, 2011
; * Barcelona, 2012
; * Edinburgh, 2013
; * Dusseldorf, 2014
; * Dublin, 2015
; * Berlin, 2016
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