Minutes of the Recent General Assembly
Published on January 30, 2026 by Balint


Ordinary General Assembly Minutes 


Free Your Tech Association 

29.01.2026 

Two members present at the General Assembly. 

  1. Balint (chair) unanimously elected as conductor of the meeting
     
  2. Report from the board presented by the chair:
     The first year of the organisation went well. We have all the legal structure and necessary infrastructure set up. We are up to 8 paying members and 6 regular contributors. We are laying the groudwork for achieving the goals of the organisation and expect bigger growth and more benefits over the second year.
     
  3. Accounts presented by the chair from Open Collective:
     https://opencollective.com/freeyourtech#category-BUDGET
    We’ve had €311.37 income and €151.27 expenses. Our current account balance is €160.10. All of our income comes from membership fees and donations. Most of our expenses come from server hosting (Hetzner), with a smaller share going towards the one-time money account creation fee (Wise) and payment processing fees (Stripe). We have a healthy economy and hope to pull in additional funding from EU and danish sources.
     
  4. We are voting on the proposals to the statutes
    1. First proposal accepted unanimously
       https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/50/files


    2.  Second proposal accepted unanimously
       https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/51/files
       
    3.  Third proposal accepted unanimously
       https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/54/files
       
    4.  Fourth proposal discussion:
       https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/56/files
       
      It should be clarified that board positions don’t transfer over to next year, each board member who wants to stay on needs to get re-elected. Removal of a board member is possible outside of the ordinary general assembly by voting in an extraordinary general assembly. This is currently implicit and should be submitted in a future proposal.
       
      Proposal unanimously accepted
       
    5.  Fifth proposal accepted unanimously
       https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/58/files
       
  5.  Election of board members
    1.  Balint Barna Kovari is nominated as chair of the organisation
      1.  Approved unanimously
         
    2.  Balthasar Clemens Schlotmann is nominated as board member
      1.  Approved unanimously
         
  6.  Distribution of excess funds to goals-aligned organisations and projects
    1.  Discussed several options
    2.  Decided to support the organisations whose infrastructure we rely on and therefore cost them money, namely: NixOS Foundation, Codeberg e.V. and Open Finance Consortium (Open Collective)
    3.  We decided on equal distribution of €99 total.

 End of general assembly.