Thorsten Behrens is the Chairperson of the TDF as well as Managing Director of allotropia, one of TDF's contractors. Kendy is in the “Management Team” of Collabora Productivity, the other major tender contractor to TDF.
The tasks of the legal oversight group have further on instead been handled by the “special working group” consisting of Caolán McNamara, Paolo Vecchi and Emiliano Vavassori. This declaratory vote makes the change public, following the TDF transparency rules.
Therefore the working group decided unanimously to start a vote to that regard, sent out by TDF's Deputy Chairperson Caolán McNamara on July 21, 2022 (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00837.html). The actual composition of the legal oversight group is identical to the members of the special working group, Caolán McNamara, Paolo Vecchi and Emiliano Vavassori.
The following day Caolán McNamara stepped down from the Board of Directors (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00849.html). The vote could not take place as TDF first had to complete the Board of Directors with Gábor Kelemen (affiliation: allotropia) and decide on the next Deputy Chairperson to be Emiliano Vavassori.
The working group decided to now restart that vote, as the conditions that brought to it are persisting. According to standard procedure (§ 3 Rules of Procedure), changes are made public (§ 8 subsection 3 Statutes).
The Rules of Procedure can be modified "at any time", but the "draft of amended rules ... need to be made available at least one week in advance" (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_rules). Formal procedure does require to make the draft available to the Directors, but not to the public, as the public has to be informed at a later stage. To avoid formal difficulties, this vote is all the same started after making the draft public first. This is not considered or legally advised to be necessary, but in a previous vote (regarding the conflict of interest policy), Thorsten Behrens claimed this to be necessary.
VOTE:We hereby call for the following VOTE, which will start on Thursday, 2022-09-08 00:00 UTC+2/CEST; it will then run for 72h and thus will end on Sunday, 2022-09-11 00:00 UTC+2/CEST.
We hereby make available the draft of an amendment to the Rules of Procedure of the Board of Directors (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_rules).
The amendment is to change the internal delegation of responsibilities (“areas of oversight”) in § 3 Rules of Procedure only regarding “contracts, legal compliance, GDPR, trademarks”.
The members of the legal oversight group regarding “contracts, legal compliance, GDPR, trademarks” are Emiliano Vavassori (Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors) and Paolo Vecchi. All other oversight groups remain unchanged.
Members of the Board of Directors who are in conflict shall explicitly declare their abstention.
Regards, -- Emiliano Vavassori, Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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