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• 0.3 K Desktop Environment is -> rebranding. Should redefine KDE Software as the software developed by the KDE Community.
• 0.x Should define "KDE Community" as the projects developed in the KDE infrastructure to serve the end users FOSS needs including its by-products.
• 2.1 Should rephrase, talking about the software produced by the KDE Community spaces rather than "K Desktop Environment" package.
• 2.2 Should rephrase free desktop software -> free software for end-users
• 6. General Assembly -> it assumes it's in person but doesn't specify so. It talks about things like "show of hands" that is clearly awkward to implement on a virtual AGM. Adding something along the lines of the following would make sense:

In case a presential AGM is inviable or impractical, the AGM can happen in a virtual space where topics can be discussed and voted on as effectively as a regular AGM.

Polishing

• 0.1 his/her -> their
• 2.2 all should end with .
• 2.2.g members' < missing '
• 6.2.2 the invitation letters were sent < needs to be plural if we're considering it can be mail as well and in practice we're talking about inviting every member
• 7.1 decision-making
• 7.1, 7.6, 7.8, 8.5, 8.6,..... Board, we usually capitalise it
• Skips point 12, should add an explanation somewhere

In T12954#230613, @apol wrote:

Polishing

• 0.1 his/her -> their

This specifically can probably be done in the English translations, however the German original looks like it would need a much more thorough review for gender-biased language ("der Urheber", "der Geschäftsführer", etc).

I would be careful with changes to the purpose, even if it's only redefining what our software is. Our non-profit status is tied to this purpose and changes to it could trigger a reexamination of that. As it works for us as it is right now, if you are aware that you have to read this through the perspective that it has been written one and a half decades ago, I don't see a strong reason to change it.

For the general assembly it would be good to define a process, how it is decided if it takes place virtually or face-to-face. Maybe have the membership vote about it well in advance of the meeting and decide with single majority. We also have to check what the legal constraints are here.

Adjust the voting structure:

• do we want to enable long-term virtual presence at AGMs? We probably want to allow for mixed virtual and in-place attendance even if we have AGMs that aren't entirely online
• improve terminology of voting kinds: don't tie it to technology, but to purpose/venue/style: AGM-vote and non-AGM vote, or maybe ..
• We want to phrase this in a way that doesn't force us to implement something in the future that we are unable to for some reason.

We need to update Unesco's address
Can we fix the numbering (currently point 12 is missing)?
Can we dump article 11?

Something to mull over to change in 2022 AGM.

• Do we update how-to-change-the-rules-of-procedure? What do we do when changing things that were approved once by vote?

RoP changes:

• Update fees by 5%
• Add super-patron level
• Move from PDF to .md