Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13
Will also do some small formal fixes, then sending it out and archiving it Thanks for taking minutes! Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-06-18 14:51: Date: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 Location: Phone conference room -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13
Hello, find attached the meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on June 13th. This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Florian The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 Location: Phone conference room Keeper of the minutes: Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors) Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board) Attending: Caolán McNamara (Board of Directors), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Charles Schulz (Board of Directors) Deputies: Björn Michaelsen (Deputy of the Board) representing Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors) Others: Norbert Thiebaud, Drew Jensen, Andreas Mantke Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chairman are in the call. One of them 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 with deputies. In order to be quorate, the call needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 7 Board of Directors members are attending the call. The invitation to the call has been in time, fulfilling all formal requirements. The call is quorate. From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes. 1) Investment for Capital stock: 2 options, one not so secure the second as traditional/conservative savings account (rates at 1,4% per year). Request: Put the capital stock in a savings account. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. 2) OASIS membership. Fee USD 1100,00 per year, for NGOs/non-for-Profit organizations Request: Become member of OASIS for 1100 USD per year. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. 3) German Foundations Association meeting. Proposal for 500 € for Mike Schnagl to attend the meeting. Request: Spend up to 500 € for Mike Schinagl attending the German Foundations Association meeting. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. 4) Google YouTube and LibreOffice: YouTube has special offers for non-for-profit organizations and there is a possibility to get the LibreOffice channel for TDF. Andrew Jensen explained the issues and the paperwork to be carried and will get back with more details. 5) FreeDesktop Bugzilla optimization service: BZ is underperforming and hitting development. Need better tunning as well as improvements such as OpenID and more. Estimated cost of 5.000 € for high-level consulting in BZ, to be carried by FDT specialists. Request: Spend up to 5.000 € for bugzilla optimization. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. Discussion: While spending for IT services, consider spendings in improving the portal for LO and TDF: better usability. 6) Travel Expenses for Jean Weber at OSCON: Proposal for funding up to 2.000 USD covering part of ticket and hotel. Request: Fund up to 2.000 USD for Jean Weber's trip to OSCON. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. Discussion: TDF must have a travel budget to bound expenses, otherwise any travel is important and we can loose control of the expenses with severe consequences. 7) Update on membership lists: Our public web pages and our internal member mailing list need the actual members names, which is not updated since long time in our TDF portal/ML. MC to provide the latest list and figures. Meeting minutes approved: Olivier Hallot, Keeper of the minutes Florian Effenberger, Session chair -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 Location: Phone conference room Keeper of the minutes: Olivier Hallot (BoD) Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board) Attending: Caolán McNamara (BoD), Olivier Hallot (BoD), Florian Effenberger (BoD Ch), Michael Meeks (BoD), Thorsten Behrens (BoD), Charles Schultz (BoD). Deputies: Bjoern Michaelsen (Deputy for Italo Vignoli (BoD)) Others: Norbert Thiebaud, Drew Jensen, Andrea Mantke Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chairman are in the call. One of them 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 with deputies. In order to be quorate, the call needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 7 Board of Directors members are attending the call. The invitation to the call has been in time, fulfilling all formal requirements. The call is quorate. - From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes. 1) Investment for Capital stock: 2 options, one not so secure the second as traditional/conservative savings account (rates at 1,4% per year). 7 Votes for savings account 2) OASIS membership. Fee USD 1100,00 per year, for NGOs/non-for-Profit organizations 7 Votes for OASIS membership 3) German Foundations Association meeting. Proposal for EUR 500,00 for Mike Schnagl to attend the meeting. 7 votes in favor. 4) Google YouTube and LibreOffice: YouTube has special offers for non-for-profit organizations and there is a possibility to get the LibreOffice channel for TDF. Andrew Jensen explained the issues and the paperwork to be carried and will get back with more details. 5) FreeDesktop Bugzilla optimization service: BZ is underperforming and hitting development. Need better tunning as well as improvements such as OpenID and more. Estimated cost of EUR 5000,00 for high-level consulting in BZ, to be carried by FDT specialists. 7 votes in favor. Discussion: while spending for IT services, consider spendings in improving the portal for LO and TDF: better usability. 6) Travel Expenses for Jean Weber at OSCON: Porposal for funding up to USD 2000,00 covering parto of ticket and hotel. 7 votes in favor. Discussion: TDF must have a travel budget to bound expenses, otherwise any travel is important and we can loose control of the expenses with severe consequences. 7) Update on membership lists: Our public web pages and our internal member mailing list need the actual members names, which is not updated since long time in our TDF portal/ML. MC to provide the latest list and figures. - -- 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://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP3yRPAAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxUWUIALMRtTOIjxdUbdUFRRxomDPA N0nVXWTxckJGQ5ZmRLVIlFY2kZads8D5R3Rtk5nHIUixitJUc/Jksg2tLi5KxFwC 4TYE82sypYIuGOJIVcZ564C73E4urymI0+Z8FCBe8BxhYY9tjQC0a7VVUXPhyH4z +lszR5Sptpt4xFHxNFyG7JHAc+mFpdZ3Iq8ouwdwHTV8LgFZZw3/MTJAnIOMV4si UYVbzvQquJMij6WwJ/5CQHN9wu6KscKExLhbmLIUAhBfVCxQ7tkAN/SpF7g9drdR 5ivmM6ZWsQ1n5IWQpv/QO5+uixQn6O4rLDTvOjXeB62p6z05VDXQRuSzlt4I6ZM= =faVF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
