Re: [board-discuss] Decidim startup proposal

2022-02-16 Thread Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco
Hi Emiliano! Thanks for the update. It was an important topic discussed in the last Q+A session with the BoD candidates and it's great to see it's moving forward! Best, Gustavo On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:18 PM Emiliano Vavassori < syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > Dear members and

[board-discuss] Decidim startup proposal

2022-02-16 Thread Emiliano Vavassori
Dear members and community, With the present email I'd like to share a (slightly redacted) version of the proposal I made to the Board of Directors for the ongoing effort of implementing a platform for participatory democracy, Decidim. You may find all the details in the document at:

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-16 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Kendy, On 16/02/2022 14:34, Jan Holesovsky wrote: In other words, my view is that the "let's first hire 2 developers, and then see" approach is irresponsible, and we should have a plan first. I would agree with you if that were the case. The bullet points of the proposal already presented

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-16 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi píše v St 16. 02. 2022 v 11:16 +0100: > It would be great if members of the board of directors, with their > TDF > hat on, would explain clearly why they seem to be opposed to > employing > in-house developers. I have never said I am opposed (and never said I'm

[board-discuss] Consolidated proposal needed (was: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs)

2022-02-16 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi *, looking at this thread, we start to run in circles. My understanding was, that Paolo volunteered to write-up a more detailed proposal, including goals (short-term and possibly long-term). I agree with several other directors (current and upcoming) that this would be very useful to have,

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-16 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Kendy, On 16/02/2022 09:52, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi píše v Út 15. 02. 2022 v 17:09 +0100: And to conclude: the easiest way to convince me (and likely others) on the board that a proposal is a good idea - is to make your case properly with a well-researched writeup.

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-16 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi píše v Út 15. 02. 2022 v 17:09 +0100: > > And to conclude: the easiest way to convince me (and likely others) > > on > > the board that a proposal is a good idea - is to make your case > > properly with a well-researched writeup. > > Could you please forward to me the

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-16 Thread Heiko Tietze
On 15.02.22 17:11, Thorsten Behrens wrote: ...latest reasonably concrete plan around hosting our own bounty/crowdfunding platform... An example for zero-overhead-bounties is Lazarus (VCL for Freepascal) https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Bounties. Well no overhead means we still have to