> TDF's representatives claim that its actions were necessary to maintain the foundation's nonprofit status
I am a TDF trustee, and that claim is a complete and total lie.
Unfortunately, the TDF's structure centralizes power so much, that such steps are not difficult to take. TDF's board of directors has also declared/decided that critical speech will now also serve as an excuse for explusion. Oh, I'm sorry, "membership non-renewal".
> Italo Vignli... said... that said that TDF's community bylaws [require the removal] "because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation"".
They do not. The board of directors declared new "community bylaws" right before the explusion. But - our statutes require that community bylaws be approved by the board of trustees [1], which they have not. So, we have our board acting on the basis of fake community bylaws they didn't have approved.
These expulsions follow previous explusions of several individuals through the trick of membership non-renewal - with no procedure to establish justification for such extreme action; as well as the tampering with the elections to our "membership committee", which is also supposed to serve as an oversight body for the foundation, and is absolutely not doing that.
There's a clear intent for EU entities to switch to "sovereign" tech. That means that there's a lot of money on the table. Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.
Same sort of eventual political meltdown seems to occur with any organization after it reaches some critical mass.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...
> TDF's representatives claim that its actions were necessary to maintain the foundation's nonprofit status
I am a TDF trustee, and that claim is a complete and total lie.
Unfortunately, the TDF's structure centralizes power so much, that such steps are not difficult to take. TDF's board of directors has also declared/decided that critical speech will now also serve as an excuse for explusion. Oh, I'm sorry, "membership non-renewal".
> Italo Vignli... said... that said that TDF's community bylaws [require the removal] "because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation"".
They do not. The board of directors declared new "community bylaws" right before the explusion. But - our statutes require that community bylaws be approved by the board of trustees [1], which they have not. So, we have our board acting on the basis of fake community bylaws they didn't have approved.
These expulsions follow previous explusions of several individuals through the trick of membership non-renewal - with no procedure to establish justification for such extreme action; as well as the tampering with the elections to our "membership committee", which is also supposed to serve as an oversight body for the foundation, and is absolutely not doing that.
[1] See §10.3 in https://www.documentfoundation.org/statutes/
There's a clear intent for EU entities to switch to "sovereign" tech. That means that there's a lot of money on the table. Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.