Re: [board-discuss] Budget - assignment and coverage (was: [DRAFT] Rules of Procedure for the TDF board)
Hi Friedrich, Can't the board hire someone who's job would be to develop TDF's sponsoring channels ? If we lack people/money to hire for office tasks, then maybe we should think about having someone to develop our revenues ? In terms of sponsorship I suppose since we are a foundation and not a company. Some sort of salesperson but who's job would be to find contracts with potential partners, not clients. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier bitsfr...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi all, again trying to keep it short.. Am 18.09.2012 19:56 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: Am 17.09.2012 18:06 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: [..] A thing of note is §8 - the board intends to hire or contract someone to operate infrastructure on a daily basis, acknowledging the extraordinary importance TDF's virtual presence has for our collective needs. I've some thoughts to throw in. This touches several topics which I will handle within several mails: - Budget - assignment and coverage I read the last budget report http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/2662 How much money would a hired officer cost? How much money would remain for travel refund for community members visiting the conference. We from admin team had several meetings, which fosters the collaboration spirit quite well :o)). I note a heavy domination of paid tech people within our community. There is a huge lack of people in the non technical part of the community work. If we ever pay people, we should consider doing so for work in any of the non tech areas. Friedrich -- Friedrich Strohmaier - Admin team - The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/ -- *Monfort Florian* BM2 Student at France Business School Marketing Apprentice at Red Hat Marketing Team Member at The Document Foundation florian.monf...@gmail.com Mobile : +33 6 58 97 15 61
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
Jean Weber wrote: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. +1 -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint pgpinvdN06UwA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 11:58 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: $ 454 = accommodation in Berlin $1546 = contribution towards airfare Sounds reasonable to me; +1 Look forward to your talk :-) Regards, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
On 9/19/12 11:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jean Weber wrote: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. +1 +1 -- Italo Vignoli - Director phone +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org The Document Foundation Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal Details: www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
Le mercredi 19 septembre 2012 à 14:43 +0200, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 9/19/12 11:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jean Weber wrote: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. +1 +1 +1 Charles.
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em 19-09-2012 10:08, Charles-H. Schulz escreveu: Le mercredi 19 septembre 2012 à 14:43 +0200, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 9/19/12 11:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jean Weber wrote: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. +1 +1 +1 Charles. +1 Will be nice to meet you Jean.! - -- Olivier Hallot Founder, Board of Directors Member - The Document Foundation The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Fundação responsável civilmente, de acordo com o direito civil Detalhes Legais: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint LibreOffice translation leader for Brazilian Portuguese +55-21-8822-8812 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQWcqcAAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxebYIAJ6ssd78OOOsCrLQyVghhR14 TkNhlyMSx92YOhXNEdQzxiCqujXAN85mDRRAEdL3ZZX+gdfbI18d6g7huaRjBeCG BT5Te5LT3TCvyBRuYrm7uDzQEb7ulLg2zgbuA7hpx5ge46C7JfmWRcKTMvpwr5B2 ZKhpx2HiUo/8Js85jx9Uilx37grO/7Vfqbnza35UuWs7+PV4iIN1ZDLbfWCmC7p6 v4JMCkJZzvHqXhlebgxFyMM89+o8Wp2IxNHNmyAt1Y8RE6fHD3MVAvd6NHoqNkTa znR/OhG7nvHzCO2lCWN/e6VaozJAvynsaqQqOVeSSi6E/jM0FUDbJdduaRK0bjY= =hOuN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [board-discuss] Current state and needs of the admin team (was[DRAFT] Rules of Procedure for the TDF board)
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Citing §8: Officers §8. Systems and Administrative Officer 1. The board will contract, or alternatively hire if more economical/practical, resources for professional, secure, and timely maintenance of TDF's central IT infrastructure. The board acknowledges that TDF's virtual presence and web pages are one of its most valuable assets, and thus need attention beyond what can reasonably be expected from pure volunteer work. ++ I can't see where the current admin team - plain volunteer based - did not cover the above mentioned requirements. Until now all services were available with reasonable uptime and quality. Please correct me in case I'm wrong. Hi Friedrich, oh, I'm truly sorry if the wording in §8 comes across in a way to suggest the admin team is not doing their job - amended friendlier verbiage welcome! Quite the contrary - the admin team, that includes you, has done the incredible job of building an infrastructure that reliably serves millions of downloads and millions of pages to our users. What was our monthly bandwidth usage again, around 6 TB? ;) This is no small feat, and we're beyond grateful to you guys. That said, you would probably agree with me, that subsets of what the admin team does needs significant time en bloc, daily attention, and prompt reaction. In a word, it starts to look like a fulltime job - and of course that person or contractor would be peer among the admins, at no time I can see the TDF forego its meritocratic principles. Ideally, TDF would have the funds to hire any number of people to fill the gaps that you and others in this thread highlighted - alas, this is not where we're at so far. So we have to prioritize, and for me, infrastructure has critical priority - it is an acknowledgement of your importance, Friedrich. ;) Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint pgpr5HjrIjv92.pgp Description: PGP signature
