[foundation-board] Fwd: important paperwork - ID + proxy for the Communia association

Fri Jul 29 13:36:50 UTC 2011

I'm afraid I don't know anything about this. I think Jonathan led on the Communia stuff?

All the best,
Jason

On 28 Jul 2011, at 17:58, Jordan S Hatcher wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> Melanie mentioned this new Communia network and OKF's role as a "member" of the new Belgium association at OKCon.  I was unaware of a formal resolution or agreement for OKF as a legal entity to become a founding member of a new organisation.
> 
> Jonathan or Jason, if this is one of yours, would you mind filling me/the board in on any details? (unless I missed something?)
> 
> See email below, Melanie has requested that we sign up to an agreement.
> 
> It's in French, and I think that we should seek a translation and perhaps some external advice on what it means to be a member of a Belgium association.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jordan
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: melanie dulong <melanie.ddr at gmail.com>
>> Date: 27 July 2011 17:33:19 GMT+01:00
>> To: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> Subject: Fwd: important paperwork - ID + proxy for the Communia association
>> 
>> Dear Jonathan and Jordan,
>> 
>> Please find enclosed the proxy form (in French, as for the whole legal
>> procedure) needed by our Attorney to represent all the founding
>> members and the administrators for the legal constitution of the
>> Association.
>> 
>> The proxy form starts with a field for the name of the person who is
>> entitled to represent the organization and who should provide his or
>> her ID.
>> The 3 options allow to briefly state the justification of the personal
>> representation power.
>> Please choose among one of them at the top of the form enclosed
>> 
>> Ms/Mr XX [LAST NAME (in block capitals), first name]
>> representing [name and address of organisation] acting pursuant to
>> - article XX of the Statutes of the Organisation
>> - OR acting pursuant to the decision taken by the general assembly on
>> the (date) XX/XX/XX.
>> - OR by the administration council of the Organisation on the (date) XX/XX/XX.
>> 
>> You don't need to provide the statutes or decision to justify the
>> personal representation power
>> 
>> We kindly ask you to:
>> -      fill in the form enclosed as explained above
>> -      sign it, while writing down by hand the place and date of your
>> signature at the bottom (“Fait à [city], le XX/XX/XX [date:
>> day/month/year]”)
>> -      scan and send it together with the copy of the ID of the
>> representative person
>> by email to our Attorney (avocat at ciarniello.net), copying both Melanie
>> and Anne-Catherine (melanieddr at gmail.com, aclorrain at gmail.com)
>> or by fax to our Attorney, Julien CIARNIELLO: 00 32 2 646 59 00.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for doing this paperwork, the burdensome period for the
>> legal constitution of the Association shall soon be over!
>> We hope to have made things easier for the non-French speakers, but
>> should you have any questions, please email the 3 of us in order to
>> avoid any delay in replying.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your input.
>> 
>> All best,
>> Anne-Catherine and Melanie
> <PROCURATION-V2.pdf>
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