Membership

To access any services, you must be a member — fortunately, anyone can be a member™. and the process for becoming a member is kept relatively simple.

Reasons you might not be able to become a member

There are very few outlying reasons why you might not be able to be. These include, but are not limited to :

• you are an individual — businesses are not allowed to hold membership. Individiuals that run small businesses may be allowed to use services for their business on a case-by-case basis
• you agree to follow any policies that are in place or may be put in plcae in the future, such as the Acceptable Use Policy for website hosting
• you aren't known for being a nuisance — that is to say, known to break AUPs or similar policies.
  • you understand that you should not try to circumvent security measures put in place or flood any servers with traffic
  • you also understand that you can't be using any servers for anything illegal in your jurisdiction or the jursidiction of the server
• you are allowed to transact with businesses based in Germany, or otherwise put, unsanctioned
• you are able to treat humans like humans and understand common sense (this is very important).

Applying for membership

There are two ways to become a member, one more preferred to the other.

The ideal way is to contact any existing members that don't disallow soliciting requests, get to know them, and ask to be referred. If you're said existing member trying to refer someone, simply reach out and mention that person's contact.

Otherwise, you can reach out by e-mailing matt PUT_AN_AT_SIGN_HERE birb.fr with [Member application] in the subject. Mention a bit about yourself — things you like, what you want to use the services for, and so on. The former method is preferred since it allows for other things to be given precedence over handling member applications.

Voicing complaints as a member

Complaints should be voiced ideally over e-mail. Complaints can be sent directly to matt AT birb.fr or sent to be sorted to a certain box, namely :

• for abuse reports — abuse AT birb.fr
• for privacy inquiries — dpo AT birb.fr
• for trustee-related complaints — trustee AT birb.fr
• for security-related complaints — encrypt using S/MIME to heyy AT maatt.fr or using PGP to matt AT birb.fr (the PGP public key can be found here and can be validated here)
• for all other complaints — use matt AT birb.fr

Revoking or rescinding membership

Anyone can rescind membership at anytime for any reason. There is no automated process for this at this time. Former members who rescinded membership are able to become members again at any time, assuming their membership is not barred while they are an emeritus member.

Membership may be revoked at any time so long as it is for a credible violation of any policy. Members who have their membership revoked are not eligible to become members again.