Regarding the intention to display and accept membership fees only in euros

This amendment will save ipernity money by avoiding the subtractions for currency conversion, before the amount eventually ends up in our account in euros. This will reduce the required increase of membership fees to balance the books this year. Any currency conversion fees, paid by those non-EU members will be at the exchange rate current at the time, rather than set for a whole year.

Shown below are the deletions and updates to the statutes. The first deletion regarding the other currencies is obvious given the above. This then leads to not needing to make updates to the membership fees for exchange fluctuation. The EUR-USD exchange rate is relevant because our association's money is held in EUR but our largest expense is for the AWS servers that are invoiced in USD. The section about pro-rata payments has never been feasible and would have been considered for deletion in any case.

ARTICLE V, Section 4 – Membership contribution: The amount of the membership contribution depends on the desired range of functions and storage space volume. It shall be set annually by the General Assembly of members for all options. The reference currency is the Euro. The membership contribution amount in the other currencies (British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc and US-Dollar) is calculated according to official exchange rates in relation to the Euro. In the event of large fluctuations in the EUR-USD exchange rates, the Board of the Association shall be entitled to make adjustments during the year. In the case of future membership contribution adjustments, the new (lower or higher) membership contributions shall apply indiscriminately to all full members from the date of the adjustment for the period thereafter. Any difference from the previous (paid in advance) membership contribution shall be calculated on a pro rata basis for the remaining period until the end of the full membership. These calculated differences shall either be refunded to the member by the Association or paid by the member to the Association in arrears. Alternatively, the association has the right to apply a time equivalent of the calculated difference to the remaining time until the end of the full membership.