http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3189 <pre>Hello, there are two sets of board minutes missing: - 2013-02-20 =&gt; Andreas - 2013-04-03 =&gt; Olivier I know Olivier is busy at the moment, but if both of you could send them in until the next call in two weeks, that'd be great. Thanks, Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-15T14:20:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3188 <pre>Hello, attached are the board meeting minutes from the BoD phone meeting on April 17th. This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Florian Minutes 2013-04-17 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, April the 17th, 2013 Location: Phone Conference Room Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board) Keeper of the minutes: Thorsten Behrens (Board of Directors) In the call: Thorsten Behrens, Florian Effenberger, Caolan McNamara, and Italo Vignoli. Representations: Jesus Corrius (representing Olivier Hallot), Björn Michaelsen (representing Charles H. Schulz), and Andreas Mantke (representing Michael Meeks). Chairman of the Board is in the call. One of the Chairman or Deputy is required to be present or represented for having a quorate call. The Board of Directors at time of the call consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the call needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4.</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-15T14:16:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3186 <pre>Hello, those of you who have issues with the phone line, here's another approach that seems to work fairly well - dialling in to the confcall via Google Hangouts: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Talkyoo#Connecting_from_your_computer Hear you in an hour, Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-15T13:56:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3181 <pre>Hello, this is a quick reminder that the next BoD call takes place this Wednesday at 1500 UTC. If you cannot make it, please nominate your deputy in time. The dial-in details as well as an agenda you can add items to is available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-13T15:28:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3179 <pre>Dear board, next week, I'd like to attend LinuxTag in Berlin, and therefore would like to file a request for vacation for four days: from Tuesday, May 21st to Friday, May 24th. There are two more events in the future I'd like to attend where I also plan to file a request for vacation, as soon as I know the exact travel dates. One is the LibreOffice Conference, where I estimatedly plan to be from Monday, September 23rd to Friday, September 27th. The other event is CONSEGI in Brazil, where I estimatedly plan to be from Monday, August 12th, to Friday, August 16th. Note that August 15th is a public holiday. For the latter two events, I will file my concrete request in time when I have the exact travel dates, but for LinuxTag, if there are no objections, I'd like to ask Thorsten to file that accordingly with the payroll provider. Thank you very much, Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-13T06:40:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3176 <pre>Hello, TDF is developing rapidly, so are the challenges we have to face, the decisions we have to make, and the strategy we have to develop. In addition, we intend to run the board elections this fall, approximately shortly after LibOCon, to give the new board enough time to learn until the official duty hand-over in February 2014. Given that several board members already proposed to meet dedicatedly for strategy, I would like to propose hosting a Board Strategy Meeting this summer. The intend is to have as many board members as possible - ideally everyone - at the same physical location, dedicatedly talking about strategy and future planning. There is a variety of topics on the table, and I think having a real life meeting is much better than any sort of virtual meeting. Having this meeting next to the LibreOffice Conference doesn't sound wise to me, as we all know how busy these days usually are. Before I send out a Doodle from June to September, I'd like to hear your availability options</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-10T16:41:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3175 <pre>Hello, sorry for spamming all the lists, but in the light of recent events and discussions, I'd like to make all of you aware of an important mailing list, that so far has not been used as extensively as it should be, which led to some frustration and communication issues. As part of our mission to foster the project internal communication, I'd like to tell you about our so called projects mailing list, which Sophie initiated quite a while ago, and which should be used for communication amongst the various projects - e.g. design and marketing, development and marketing, UX and development, and the like. The list's intention is not to be a gossip list where everything should be thrown at, but to make all affected projects aware of important changes. Philosophy: Low traffic, but important topics. Some examples are: Change of version numbers, a new slogan, design changes, new products. In other words: Everything that has an impact on other areas of working than the one where the change originally</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T13:25:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3173 <pre>Hello, at the moment, we are looking for volunteers who could help moderate this mailing list. If you are interested, the only requirement is that you are subscribed to the list yourself and read its mails in a somehow timely manner, but that's about it. Moderation means dealing with e-mails that do not automatically make it to the list, which you then manually forward, or reject. This happens either when an e-mail comes from an unknown sender, e.g. when a project member uses a different address for posting. It also occurs when someone unexperienced writes to the list, thinking it's a private account, but in fact it's a public list. You'll receive the message to be moderated via e-mail, which you then can either "moderate through", or reject. Is someone interested in joining our efforts? It'd be much appreciated - just drop me an email (please also copy me directly, and not only the list), then I'm happy to add you to the list of moderators. Thanks! Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T11:16:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3172 <pre>Our application for a booth in the Non-Profit Pavilion at OSCON has been approved. (Dates: July 23-25 for the booth; OSCON is July 22-26. Portland, Oregon, USA.) There is no cost to us for the booth. Who should sign the contract with O'Reilly on behalf of TDF? I am happy to do it if the Board authorises me to do so. The contract needs to be signed (online) by May 15 to confirm our space. I can provide a link to the contract to any Board member who wishes to read it. Regards, Jean Jean Hollis Weber </pre> Jean Weber 2013-05-04T00:21:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3171 <pre>Test mail after mail list migration, please ignore </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-03T15:31:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3170 <pre>Hello, as tomorrow is a public holiday in several countries, and I have heard no objections so far to my proposal of postponing the meeting, we will therefore NOT meet tomorrow, and skip the call. The next board meeting will take place on May 15th. Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-30T15:52:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3168 <pre>Hello, there would be a regular board meeting scheduled on Wednesday, May 1st. This is a public holiday here in Germany, and probably also in other countries. As probably neither Thorsten, nor Andreas, nor I are home that day, and there's nothing urgent on the agenda, I propose to skip that meeting. Any objections? Any important agenda item I've missed? Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-27T13:01:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3164 <pre>Dear members, TDF supporters, please find attached our March 2013 profits &amp; losses report, and, separately, the budget summary as of 2013-03-31 for the Berlin entity. The budget summary represents the *remaining* funds from our 2013 budget, see here for the detailed spreadsheet: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Tdfbudget2013.pdf (note that the discuss list strips attachments - please refer to the board-discuss archives for those, if you are not subscribed there) Many thanks for your ongoing support, with kind regards, </pre> Thorsten Behrens 2013-04-21T23:46:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3161 <pre>Hello, I won't be available today for the board meeting. Given that Jesus will represent Olivier, I would like to appoint Bjoern and/or Andreas to represent me at the meeting. Best, Charles. </pre> Charles-H. Schulz 2013-04-17T11:08:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3159 <pre>Hello, find attached the meeting minutes from the MC meeting on March 18th. This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Florian Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting 2013-03-18 - 1st Quarter 1. Call to order The meeting took place on 2013-03-18. 2. Roll Call Membership Committee Members present: - Fridrich Strba - Jean Weber - Sophie Gautier - Eike Rathke 3. New Members WHEREAS, the Membership Committee has received Membership Applications since the last review of the Membership Rolls. WHEREAS, the Membership Committee has reviewed these Applications in light of the requirement as defined in the Statutes of The Document Foundation IT IS THEREFORE RESOLVED that the following persons be granted the status of Member of The Document Foundation, for a period of 1 (one) year effective the first day of the second Quarter 2013. Peter Szakal Ricardo Montania Raimundo Santos Moura Adolfo Jayme Barrientos Lucian Oprea Jhos Alfauzi Gokul Swaminathan Karthikeyan Krishnamur</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-14T16:16:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3158 <pre>Hello, this is a reminder to the mail sent on March 25th. [1] One of the duties of the board of directors is to write and formally approve the annual report, which we need to hand in to the foundation authorities no later than April 30th. Therefore, I hereby invite all members of the board of directors to a formal board meeting via phone conference on Wednesday, April 17th, 1500 UTC The only agenda item for this formal meeting is the approval of the annual report. I urge all board members to reserve this time for joining the call. In case you cannot attend, please state your deputy 1. publically 2. by name 3. in time. Thanks, Florian [1] http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg03163.html </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-13T08:27:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3153 <pre>Hi, thanks to Joren and Joel, we just found out: In case you have no landline number in your country, you can try calling the US number using Google Hangouts. They allow free calls to US landline numbers from several countries at a fairly good voice quality. Maybe this helps for future calls. Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-05T17:31:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3150 <pre>Hello, given that writing the annual report is a quite tedious task, I am thinking about having a new rule, that a fully written, timely report (in English) should be a requirement for future budget spendings. Not too much text, but a few sentences would be nice. That would help writing down topics when they occur, plus help those writing the annual report to have access to full texts rather than having to reinvent the wheel based on some sticky notes and keywords taken over the year. I agree that it is raising the barrier for funds a bit, but then, why not share the burden than offloading it to a hand full of people? ;-) From experience I can tell this worked out quite well with the German FrODeV association, which suffered from similar problems. Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-04-04T14:09:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3123 <pre>Hello, in many countries, this Sunday daylight saving time will start again. In order to keep the effective time of the board calls constant, I'd hereby like to have a quick vote. My request is to change the call time from 1600 UTC to 1500 UTC. The complete request: The TDF BoD calls will take place every 2nd Wednesday at 1500 UTC, starting on April 3rd, 2013, and are scheduled to run for one hour. Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-03-29T12:53:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3106 <pre>Something to decide on today or in a few days (posting this here just for archive). FYI: I'm fine to give it a go together with Italo without going all the way up to the BoD. Thanks, Charles. -------- Message transféré -------- </pre> Charles-H. Schulz 2013-03-27T11:02:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/3105 <pre>Hello, my calendar yielded an item to renew our D&amp;O and liability insurance. I checked the documents, and in fact, both are automatically renewed for one year, beginning on July 1st, unless we cancel them on April 1st. I see no reason for making any change here, and unless someone has a compelling reason plus a good alternate offer, I will silently let the contract renew for one year. Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-03-27T10:52:05 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss