docs(blog): announce the founding of the association - #142
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The association was founded on 2 September 2026. Publish the announcement, because the founding documents landed without a public notice. State the assured tax exemption of 27 August 2026 and its condition. State that donations become deductible only after the legally binding decision. An assurance is not a rechtskräftige Verfügung. Closes the last content item before the v0.1.0 tag (textrefs#68). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169tbUcxNz5AenNc8idkPTB
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The change is a single new content file and the only noted issue is a minor spelling consistency nit.
Pull request overview
Adds a new Starlight blog post announcing the founding of the TextRefs association, providing public context for the previously-published founding documents and clarifying the status of the tax-exemption assurance ahead of the v0.1.0 release work tracked in #68.
Changes:
- Publish an English announcement post at
/blog/2026/09/association-founded/covering the founding assembly, document links, and tax-exemption status.
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src/content/docs/blog/2026/09/association-founded.md |
New blog post announcing the association’s founding, linking to the governing documents and clarifying current tax-exemption status. |
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| The registry, the standard, and the API are still pre-1.0. Every record is still `status: draft`, and no identifier carries a persistence promise until expert review promotes it. TextRefs stays bootstrap-funded, non-commercial, and committed to the [Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure](/association/posi/). | ||
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| What is new is the organisation behind all of it. There is now an entity that can hold funds, accept donations and grants, sign agreements with libraries and institutions, and — this is the part that matters most to us — outlive any one of its founders. Stable identifiers are a promise about the future. Making that promise as two people with a GitHub account was never quite enough. |
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What this does
Publishes the announcement of the founding of the association as a blog post at
/blog/2026/09/association-founded/.The founding documents landed on
stagingwith #124 (819fcb9), but no public notice followed.This is the last content item in #68 §0
before the
v0.1.0tag.What the post says
immediately (Art. 22). Moritz Mähr signed as president, Luz Christopher Seiberth as recording
officer. The association submitted the signed statutes and the founding minutes to the Cantonal
Tax Office of Zürich on the same day.
27 August 2026, on condition that the association was founded as presented. The post states
plainly that an assurance is not a legally binding decision, and that donations are not
tax-deductible yet. This mirrors the note on
/association/and/de/association/; it doesnot claim more.
office found the earlier text broader than the governance model in the application (docs(association): align Art. 15 with tax authority feedback #123). The
expense regulation and the governance regulation follow Art. 15.
status: draft.Scope
One new file. No other file changes.
src/content/docs/blog/2026/09/association-founded.mdThe post is English only.
AGENTS.mdlimits the German mirror to legally relevant Associationpages, and the German founding documents are already published and binding.
src/content/docs/blog/2026/06/hello-world.mdstill says "an association in formation" and staysunchanged, because it is a dated post and a historical record.
Verification
npm run verify:fastis green on46e549e:prettier --check .passes.astro checkreports 0 errors, 0 warnings.starlight-links-validatorreports all internal linksvalid. The post links only to existing routes, including the two heading anchors in the
statutes.
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