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.
- Balint (chair) unanimously elected as conductor of the meeting
- 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.
- 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.
- We are voting on the proposals to the statutes
- First proposal accepted unanimously
https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/50/files - Second proposal accepted unanimously
https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/51/files
- Third proposal accepted unanimously
https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/54/files
- 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
- Fifth proposal accepted unanimously
https://codeberg.org/freeyourtech/home/pulls/58/files
- First proposal accepted unanimously
- Election of board members
- Balint Barna Kovari is nominated as chair of the organisation
- Approved unanimously
- Approved unanimously
- Balthasar Clemens Schlotmann is nominated as board member
- Approved unanimously
- Approved unanimously
- Balint Barna Kovari is nominated as chair of the organisation
- Distribution of excess funds to goals-aligned organisations and projects
- Discussed several options
- 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)
- We decided on equal distribution of €99 total.
End of general assembly.