01/02: guix-europe: statuts: Add unofficial English translations.

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Author: Andreas Enge <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Feb 14 20:08:34 2016 +0100

    guix-europe: statuts: Add unofficial English translations.
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+% Compile with xelatex.
+
+\documentclass [11pt]{article}
+
+\usepackage [a4paper,vscale=0.75]{geometry}
+\usepackage {fontspec}
+\usepackage {xunicode}
+
+\renewcommand {\section}[1]{\stepcounter {section}%
+{\vspace {1em}\noindent\Large \bf Article \thesection: #1 \par}}
+
+
+\begin {document}
+
+\textit {
+This document is a non-official English translation of the official French
+``règlement intérieur'' governing the Guix Europe association; only the
+French version is binding.
+}
+
+\begin {center}
+\bf \huge {Interior Reglementary}
+\end {center}
+
+The Interior reglementary has the same binding force towards the members
+as the statutes of the Association. This reglementary has been written
+in conformance with the process established by the statutes.
+
+
+\section {Amount of the membership fees}
+
+Membership fees are computed by calendar year; in the case of admission
+during the year, the full amount is due.
+The current membership fees are 10€ per year.
+
+
+\section {Conditions of admission}
+
+A person desiring to obtain the member status needs to (in conformance
+with the reglementation):
+\begin {itemize}
+\item
+be major or be represented by a major legal guardian;
+\item
+communicate in written or by e-mail to the Board a demand for admission;
+\item
+accompany this demand by:
+\begin {itemize}
+\item
+their name and first name;
+\item
+their birthdate;
+\item
+their complete postal address, their e-mail address and any other
+means of communication by which to join them;
+\item
+potentially their OpenPGP key;
+\item
+potentially their motivations to join the Association.
+\end {itemize}
+\end {itemize}
+
+The membership demand must be accompanied by the membership fees.
+These may be paid in cash, by wire transfer to the account of the
+Association or by check.
+
+In conformance with the statutes, the Solidary Administrative Council
+reserves the right to accept or not a new member.
+
+
+\section {Presence in electronic form}
+
+The Board may make possible a participation to the Solidary Administrative
+Council and to the General Assemblies in electronic form, be it by
+audio- or videoconference, e-mail, social networks or any other form
+of electronic participation.
+Members participating in electronic form are counted as present just
+as members who are physically present, in particular as quorums are
+concerned.
+
+
+\section {Electronic vote}
+
+The Board may, additionally to and complementing the vote in
+physical presence, make an electronic vote possible for the meetings
+of the Solidary Administrative Council and the General Assemblies,
+by any suitable means.
+
+In particular, a member may vote sending to a member of the Board an
+e-mail signed with their OpenPGP key or, if such a key has not been
+specified during their admission, coming from their e-mail address
+communicated during their admission.
+
+Members taking part in an electronic vote are counted as being present
+for the topics covered by this vote with the same rights as members
+who are physically present, in particular as quorums are concerned.
+
+
+\end {document}
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+% Compile with xelatex.
+
+\documentclass [11pt]{article}
+
+\usepackage [a4paper,vscale=0.75]{geometry}
+\usepackage {fontspec}
+\usepackage {xunicode}
+
+\renewcommand {\section}[1]{\stepcounter {section}%
+{\vspace {1em}\noindent\Large \bf Article \thesection: #1 \par}}
+
+
+\begin {document}
+
+\textit {
+This document is a non-official English translation of the official French
+bylaws governing the Guix Europe association; only the French version is
+binding.
+}
+
+\begin {center}
+\bf \huge {Statuts}
+\end {center}
+
+
+\section {Title of the Association}
+
+It is founded among the persons adhering to the present statutes an
+association under the law of the 1st of July, 1901, and the decree of the
+16th of August 1901, having as title:
+Guix Europe.
+
+
+\section {Goal of the Association}
+
+The Association has the goal of promoting, using and developing software
+and operating systems that respect users' freedoms, supporting in particular
+usages in research and education without any commercial goal.
+The Association is specially dedicated to supporting the GNU Guix project.
+
+
+\section {Registered office}
+
+The registered office of the Association is at Bordeaux.
+It may be transferred by a decision of the Solidary Administration Council.
+
+
+\section {Members of the Association}
+
+The Association is formed exclusively of active members,
+natural or legal persons paying a membership fee decided yearly by
+the General Assembly.
+They take part in the General Assembly with voting rights.
+
+
+\section {Admission}
+
+To become a member of the Association, a person needs to be admitted by
+the Solidary Administration Council which decides on the submitted
+demands of admittance, adhere to the present statutes and pay the
+membership fee the amount of which is fixed by the General Assembly.
+
+
+\section {Cancellation of membership}
+
+Membership is lost by:
+\begin {itemize}
+\item
+retirement;
+\item
+demise of the natural person or liquidation of the legal person;
+\item
+exclusion pronounced by the Solidary Administration Council
+due to non-payment of the membership fee, violation of the statutes,
+behaviour apt to damage the moral or material interests of the Association,
+or for grave reasons.
+
+The internal regulations may give a more precise
+definition of grave reasons.
+\end {itemize}
+
+
+\newpage
+\section {Ressources}
+
+The ressources of the Association comprise:
+\begin {itemize}
+\item
+the membership fees;
+\item
+subsidies by the European Union, the State, the regions, the departments
+and townships, or any other public entity;
+\item
+payment received for services rendered by the Association;
+\item
+any other ressources authorised by the legal or reglementary texts.
+\end {itemize}
+
+
+\section {The Board}
+
+The Board ensures the good functioning of the Association under the control
+of the Solidary Administration Council of which it prepares the meetings.
+It is composed of two members of the Association, a person ensuring the
+presidence (called ``Presidence'' in the following) and a person ensuring the
+treasury (called ``Treasury'' in the following), elected by the General
+Assembly.
+
+The Presidence and the Treasury represent the Association in all acts of
+civil life. They are entitled to express themselves in the name of the
+Association towards their interlocutors and the media, to act in court
+in the name of the Association as well as to make any opposition towards
+any administration, in particular in fiscal matters, and to open a bank
+or post account. They mandate expenses.
+They may, with the agreement of the Solidary Administrative Council,
+delegate their powers to another member or to several members of the
+Solidary Administrative Council, on a topic, a project, or towards a
+fixed interlocutor. In the case of appearance in court, a proxy may replace
+a member of the Board by power of procuration.
+
+The Presidence is in charge of writing the minutes of the meetings of the
+Solidary Administrative Council and of the General Assembly and of keeping
+the lawful registry. In case of indisposedness, the Presidency is substituted
+by the Treasury, or by another member of the Solidary Administrative Council
+designated by the Treasury.
+
+The Treasury is in charge of executing or having executed under its control
+the accounting of the Association. It treats incoming payments; it executes
+all payments under provision of agreement by the Presidency. In case of
+indisposedness, it is substituted by the Presidency, or by another member
+of the Solidary Administrative Council designated by the Presidency.
+Towards banks and the post, the Presidency, the Treasury or any other member
+of the Solidary Administrative Council designated by the Presidency with
+agreement by the Treasury, have the power, individually, to sign any
+instrument of payment (checks, wire transfers, etc).
+
+
+\section {The Solidary Administrative Council}
+
+The Association is governed by a Solidary Administrative Council,
+comprising the members of the Board and zero or more members of the
+Association elected by the General Assembly.
+
+The Solidary Administrative Council meets at least once every year
+upon invitation by a Board member or by demand of at least a quarter
+of its members.
+
+Presence as well as voting by a member of the Solidary Administrative
+Council may be in electronic form as stipulated by the interior reglementary.
+
+Decisions are taken with an absolute majority of votes.
+
+Any member of the Solidary Administrative Council that has, without being
+excused, not assisted to three consecutive meetings, may be considered
+as having resigned.
+
+The Solidary Administrative Committee is invested with the highest powers
+within the limits of the goal of the Association and the resolutions
+adopted by the General Assembly. It may authorise any activities or
+operations that by the statutes do not fall into the sole competence
+of the ordinary or extraordinary General Assembly.
+
+It is in charge of:
+\begin {itemize}
+\item
+realising the actions decided by the General Assembly;
+\item
+preparing the financial statements, the agenda and propositions
+for modifications of the interior reglementary presented at the
+General Assembly;
+\item
+preparing the propositions of modifications of the statutes presented
+at the extraordinary General Assembly. The Solidary Administrative Council
+may delegate any of its powers for a limited duration to one or several
+of its members, conforming to the interior reglementary.
+\end {itemize}
+
+
+\section {The General Assemblies}
+
+The Ordinary or Extraordinary General Assembly comprises all members
+of the Association having paid their membership fees of the current year.
+Fifteen days at least before the date fixed by the Solidary Administrative
+Council, the members of the Association are invited by the Presidency.
+The agenda is communicated in the invitation.
+The Presidency presides the General Assembly.
+
+Presence of a member at a General Assembly may be in electronic form
+as stipulated by the interior reglementary.
+
+A member may ask to be represented by another member by writing or sending
+an e-mail to the Board; a member may represent at most one other member.
+
+
+\section {The Ordinary General Assembly}
+
+The Ordinary General Assembly meets at least once a year.
+During this meeting said ``annual'', the Presidency presents to
+the General Assembly a report on the activity of the Association.
+The Treasury prensents a financial report comprising the balance
+of the past period.
+After that the members of the Board are elected, then those of the
+Solidary Administrative Council.
+
+After that the further questions of the agenda are treated.
+
+Decisions are taken with an absolute majority of the expressed votes
+by present or represented members.
+
+An electronic vote may be made possible as stipulated in the interior
+reglementary.
+
+The Ordinary General Assembly may also be united at any moment upon
+the demand of a majority of the members of the Solidary Administrative
+Council.
+
+
+\newpage
+\section {The Extraordinary General Assembly}
+
+The Extraordinary General Assembly decides about modifications of the
+statutes and about the dissolution of the Association. It is united
+upon the demand of a member of the Board or of the majority of the
+members of the Solidary Administrative Council. The Extraordinary General
+Assembly can only take valid decisions if two thirds of the members
+of the Association are present or represented.
+Decisions are taken with a two thirds majority of the votes
+expressed by the present or represented members.
+
+The Extraordinary General Assembly may also take all decisions in the
+competence of the Ordinary General Assembly, under the same circumstances,
+that is, without a quorum of representation of its members and with
+an absolute majority of the expressed votes. If the quorum of two thirds
+of the members is not reached, the Assembly becomes in fact an Ordinary
+General Assembly, and decides on the topics of the agenda where it
+is competent.
+
+If the quorum is not reached, the Extraordinary General Assembly is
+united again fifteen days later. It may then decide regardless
+of the number of present and represented members, and the decisions are
+taken with an absolute majority of the present or represented members.
+
+
+\section {Interior Reglementary}
+
+An interior reglementary is established by the Solidary Administrative
+Council and approved by the General Assembly. This potential reglementary
+is supposed to fix diverse topics not covered by the statutes, in
+particular pertaining to the internal administration of the Association.
+
+
+\section {Dissolution}
+
+In the case of a dissolution pronounced by the Extraordinary General
+Assembly, it designates one or more liquidators. Assets, if present,
+are transferred by this Extraordinary General Assembly to one or more
+associations persuing a similar goal or to any body of its choice
+with a social or cultural goal.
+
+\end {document}