Yesterday, the inaugural assembly of the Maemo Community e.V. was held on IRC #maemo-meeting.
(http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclo...03-18T22:32:02)
Proper meeting minutes will be announced soon, here's the short version:
For board of directors, chemist, juiceme and nieldk were the only candidates and have been elected.
For council, chemist, juiceme and joerg_rw were the only candidates and have been re-elected.
warfare, low and me were the only other official founders while some visitors were idling.

Now papers need signatures, partially with notary approval and to be sent across europe untill they can be filed to the registering court of Kaiserslautern, where chemist resides. This will take approximately a month or so, untill the "Verein" will be fully operable and is allowed to make use of the extension "e.V." (registered association). It will then take probably another 2 weeks or so to set up bank and paypal accounts.

So for now, we have 2 associations, HiFo and the Verein. Next steps will be to transfer all assets and funds, then dissolve HiFo. Negotiations with Nokia about the licence agreement are still ongoing with current HiFo board and it remains to bee seen if that can be closed before dissolving HiFo or if the Verein can finalize that.

When I ran for board ~9 months ago, I never imagined things would turn out this way. I became treasurer, but since there were ongoing issues with the US bank, I couldn't do much. When Woody finally managed to set up a new account he resigned shortly after that and HiFos' fate was doomed. Nobody from the remaining directors could ever compensate for that huge loss for different reasons. And while I wasn't able to do much for HiFo, I hope I could at least help to establish a successing association that finally might be able to provide what HiFo never could: One roof for one community. At least I tried the best to my knowledge.