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Inspired by all these thoughts, our resident association adept crafted a charter draft for Oregami's legal base that on one hand incorporates all important rules from the sample charter provided by German financial authorities as well as from the German Civil Code (BGB), but on the other hand renders the subject easily manageable and graspable. Soon after we assiduously collected and incorporated feedback from our community, among other things we integrated the digital lifestyle into our charter (email and chat) and made some of the wordings even more easier to understand. The next big step was presenting our charter to the Association Register (approval of possible entry) and to Financial Authorities (approval of possible non-profit status). To our knowledge, there's just no German role model for an association wanting to maintain a non-profit video gaming database as of yet, so we faced quite some demand for charter changes to fulfill the slightly outmoded visions of the institutions. But ultimately and finally, we now have a rule set for our governing organisation which can be introduced to the Association Register and which enables us to become a German non-profit.

Doch wie geht es nun weiter? Zunächst mal brauchen wir mindestens sieben Personen, die sich zu einer Gründungsversammlung treffen und den Verein gründen wollen. Da wir zur Zeit mit einem Mindest-Jahresbeitrag von nur 12 Euro planen, sollte das kein Problem sein. Aus dem Kreis der Gründungsmitglieder müssen wir drei Leute finden, die die in der Satzung festgelegten Vorstandspositionen übernehmen wollen: Vorsitzender, stellvertretender Vorsitzender und Schatzmeister. Außerdem muss die Position des Kassenprüfers besetzt werden. Der erste gewählte Vorstand wird u. a. die folgenden Aufgaben vor sich haben:

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But what's next? First things first, we will need at least seven people wanting to meet up for founding our association. We currently plan to collect a minimum of 12 Euros a year for member fees, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Three people from the circle of founding members will need to campaign for the managing board, namely for the functions chairman, substitute chairman, and treasurer. Furthermore, we will need to identify an auditor. The first elected board will face the following tasks and challenges:

  1. Setting up the association with the Association Register and Financial Authorities
  2. Setting up member administration (esp. entry form)
  3. Setting up the online infrastructure for formal meetings of the members and the managing board (safe chat room)
  4. Opening up a bank and PayPal account
  5. Setting up financial accounting
  6. Transfer of the hosting of oregami.org and crafting of a website for the association
  7. Implementation of the 10 transparency criteria of the "Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft" [German only]

Das mag nach viel Arbeit klingen, aber erstens besteht keine größere Eile und zweitens werden es dankbare Aufgaben sein, weil es endlich los geht. Wir freuen uns jedenfalls darauf und senden schon jetzt einen ersten Ruf an unsere Unterstützer und alle Interessierten: Bitte helft uns, wenn es konkret wird! Werdet Mitglied, übernehmt vielleicht sogar einen Posten im Vorstand, bringt Euch ein, gebt uns Feedback. Wir meinen es ernst!

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