Re: [board-discuss] TDF Advisory Board Members

2021-03-24 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Michael, Simon, On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:59:27PM +, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:16 PM Michael Meeks > wrote: > > > > Perhaps more measured than: Which shows that there are some measured and uncontroversial things that _need_ to be said in this situation

Re: [board-discuss] TDF Advisory Board Members

2021-03-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 05:46:18PM +, Simon Phipps wrote: > I'll be more direct than Andreas in this matter. Given the FSF Board has > demonstrated[1] that it is aware that reappointing RMS would be regarded as > bad judgement by everyone at LibrePlanet, and given other organisations[2] >

Re: [board-discuss] Project vs product (and some comments to product itself)

2020-09-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 10:47:50AM +0200, Telesto wrote: > And how does this differ from the development teams behind MSO, OnlyOffice? If you cant see how setting up a project where contributors work according to their own agenda, motivation, goals and ambitions compared to being directed by

Re: [board-discuss] Project vs product (and some comments to product itself)

2020-09-25 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:10:51PM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Telesto wrote: > > From internal perspective (so within the organization of TDF) > > LibreOffice is viewed, managed, and functioning as a project. > > > and > > > LibreOffice for the end-user is pretty often associated with

Re: [board-discuss] Drafting "Tender for implementing support for a dedicated, built-in UNO object,inspection tool (Xray-built-in debugger)"

2020-07-22 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Florian, all, On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 04:58:40PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > I'd like to collect further feedback on this tender this week, and if there > is nothing controversial, move to publication afterwards. I wonder if it would make sense to link this old talk of mine in the

Re: [board-discuss] Personal Edition label and define is wrong.

2020-07-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:04:08AM +, toki wrote: > It might be useful to create a White Paper on migration to LibO > specifically for each size/class of potential user: > > Either the same, or a different White Paper could go into the virtues > and vices of ongoing paid support, for each

Re: [board-discuss] Personal Edition label and define is wrong.

2020-07-16 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:53:54AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > What would be missing - as a value-proposition, or via TDF marketing - > to make it compelling for enterprises not to deploy LibreOffice > without support? I think TDF marketing should provide guidance on how running a

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-09 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Alex, I wanted to limit myself to those four tweets on this discussion, but this one really rattles my bones, so here we go: On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Alexander Werner wrote: > I want to remind all of you what The Document Foundation is all about, > as stated in the

[board-discuss] Feedback "Personal Edition"

2020-07-08 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hello TDF board, all, since the board asked for feedback on the "Personal Edition" tagline and it was already amply provided by others, allow me to add my old contributor voice to this choir of opinions: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1280753358605881352.html Its short and fits in four

[board-discuss] Quarterly TDF 2020 Key Goals update

2020-05-24 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Board, Hello fellow TDF members, the new TDF board is in office now for a quarter already. At the last in person meeting (FOSDEM, Bruessels), the board agreed to a set of seven goals for the next year, each with one to four key results attached to them. I wonder if the TDF membership can get

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] public vote resolution on TDC (The Document Collective)

2019-10-04 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:12:16PM +0200, Marina Latini wrote: > - > The Board RESOLVES to start creation of The Document Collective (TDC) > by taking the following acts: > - Broadly, to implement the concepts in the Board's

Re: [board-discuss] Plone site & grief

2018-11-10 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > I think this might be a good occasion to ask our CoC volunteers for > help (in Cc) - some sort of moderation is perhaps possible? FWIW: I, for one, would appreciate such mediation. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe

[board-discuss] Representation statement - Bjoern Michaelsen

2018-03-05 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
calls and meetings, in the order set forth below: 1. Jan Holešovský 2. Simon Phipps 3. Osvaldo Gervasi -- Bjoern Michaelsen Deputy Chairman, Board of Directors Key fingerprint = C8BE 3F1F 92CB 2646 17FE 361D DCD9 C191 E48D BF5F The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin

Re: [board-discuss] Acceptance of BoD role

2017-12-21 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
t; answering to this message with a "Reply all". Thank you for all the excellent work executing this election! Im happy to accept: I, Bjoern Michaelsen, elected Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Do

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Bjoern Michaelsen

2017-11-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation. Im Bjoern Michaelsen and I am currently serving on the Board of Directors as an unaffilated individual. Before that I ensured LibreOffice to be properly released and maintained through

Re: [board-discuss] Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-10-25 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Regina, first off: Sorry for taking so long to reply. On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 03:16:04PM +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: > I would like to participate in such a Hackfest. I know, I do not belong to > the targeted category of persons, but I want to code, and I could help in > testing, whether a

Re: [board-discuss] 2017-09-17 14:30 UTC: HackfestTNG, next call

2017-09-07 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:55:07AM +0100, Shinnok wrote: > I think I should be in the next one? Please do! ;) Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

[board-discuss] 2017-09-17 14:30 UTC: HackfestTNG, next call

2017-09-05 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:26:47AM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > This is date & time: > > - Sunday September 3rd, 2017 16:30 CEST/Berlin time (14:30 UTC) > > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=2=9=2017=37=1800 > - Dial-in wor

[board-discuss] 2017-09-03 14:30 UTC: HackfestTNG, first call

2017-08-28 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, This is the agenda: On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > I hope to be able to set up a conference call on next Sunday (September > 3rd, 2017) european afternoon. Sunday afternoon as it should allow as many > interested volunteer communit

[board-discuss] Re: Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-08-28 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:30:58PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > If you are interested in helping with this, either as: > > - someone on the ground helping to organize the Hackfest > - someone who wants to pair program with a hired certified developer at a > Hackf

[board-discuss] Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-08-22 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, I recently had a look at a variety of challenges the LibreOffice community is facing wrt Hackfests and especially also tenders: Status Quo == - due to a set of reasons based in the size of the project, the scope and selection of tender topics, the rules of properly running an

Re: [board-discuss] Harassment and lack of code of conduct

2017-01-18 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Michael, Bubli, Im late to this discussion, sorry. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:28:11PM +, Michael Meeks wrote: > I'm aware of some sensitive situations in the past that have been > handled adroitly by some community members. At some conference or other > we had had a: "If you have

Re: [board-discuss] 3 proposed items for the Agenda of the BoD Call of Feb 29

2016-02-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 07:40:44PM +0100, Osvaldo Gervasi wrote: > KNOWING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY > > I'm confident such information will be tremendously useful in the future. So the MC is tasked with tracking this and not every member is eager to share all achievements in widely public. So how

[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board (Bjoern Michaelsen)

2016-01-01 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, I, Bjoern Michaelsen, elected Deputy Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation". My term will start February 18, 2016. Signed: Bjoern Michaelsen Ich, Bjoern Michaelsen, gewähl

[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Preliminary results 2015 Elections TDF Board of Directors

2015-12-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 02:18:26AM +, Michael Meeks wrote: > This piece matches my pocket calculation too =) and FWIW; I think it's > good to have Marina at the top of the list for several reasons; though > personally I'm not a fan of any special difference between elected >

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Preliminary results 2015 Elections TDF Board of Directors

2015-12-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > To choose a chairperson from the votes, we could pick the Condorcet > winner as Chairperson :) (there usually is one, even though not > mathematically guaranteed). Note that we are not even using Condorcet voting for

Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

2015-11-29 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
ties: The LibreOffice 5.0 release finally established us a strong and unchallenged fundament to grow our user share and by extension the numbers of contributors and contributions we will need to accommodate for making open source productivity the default for everyone. I am looking forward to face the

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Bjoern Michaelsen

2015-11-25 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation. Im Bjoern Michaelsen, the Ubuntu maintainer for LibreOffice and am working for Canonical. I have been elected to be a deputy to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Grant Request: Madrid Hackfest, December 2015

2015-11-13 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 12:27:59AM +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:30:55PM -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > > Could you point me to details of the hackfest? I would like to add it to our > > events calendar. > > Ill pop up a wiki page once the fundi

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Grant Request: Madrid Hackfest, December 2015

2015-11-08 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:30:55PM -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > Could you point me to details of the hackfest? I would like to add it to our > events calendar. Ill pop up a wiki page once the funding is approved. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[board-discuss] Grant Request: Madrid Hackfest, December 2015

2015-11-04 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, please find attached the grant request for a Hackfest in December in Madrid shared with GNOME as discussed during the ESC calls. Thank you for your consideration. Best, Bjoern -- Bjoern Michaelsen Member, Board of Directors Key fingerprint = C8BE 3F1F 92CB 2646 17FE 361D DCD9 C191 E48D

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Proposal for Budget Process

2015-08-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:12:41PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I ask the board to vote on this, so we can formalize the process. Approving this. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [board-discuss] cooperation with Do-FOSS?

2015-07-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:38:40AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: this looks rather supportable to me. Same here. Do-FOSS does quite some good noise about OSS including us, which is well appreciated. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[board-discuss] Board report 1st quarter 2015: events

2015-04-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
/LibreOffice was present at two open source events: - Scale: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2015/SCALE - LibrePlanet: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2015/LibrePlanet Best, Bjoern -- Bjoern Michaelsen Member, Board of Directors Key fingerprint = C8BE 3F1F 92CB 2646

[board-discuss] Board report 1st quarter 2015: development

2015-04-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
management on a separate branch (feature/vclref) - cleanup of old unmaintained change proposals from gerrit patch review Best, Bjoern -- Bjoern Michaelsen Member, Board of Directors Key fingerprint = C8BE 3F1F 92CB 2646 17FE 361D DCD9 C191 E48D BF5F The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707

[board-discuss] Board report 1st quarter 2015: releases schedules

2015-04-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
-- Bjoern Michaelsen Member, Board of Directors Key fingerprint = C8BE 3F1F 92CB 2646 17FE 361D DCD9 C191 E48D BF5F The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

[board-discuss] Vote on changed rules of procedure

2014-07-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: based on an offlist discussion, I hereby propose the board to vote on changing the rules of procedure. § 3, the internal delegation of responsibilites, should be adapted. Andreas Mantke, so far listed for contracts, taxes, legal

Re: [board-discuss] Design team leads

2014-06-19 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Mirek, On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 05:56:35PM +0200, Mirek M. wrote: Astron told me that the idea to have positions within the design team was not well-received and that I should discuss it with you. What do you find problematic about having positions within the team? To be clear, leads

[board-discuss] Representation in my absence

2014-02-21 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
I, Bjoern Michaelsen, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls, in the order set forth below: 1. Deputy Andreas Mantke 2. Deputy Eike Rathke 3. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud Best

[board-discuss] Hackfest Hamburg 2013 budget estimates

2013-06-13 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Id like to raise the totral budget for the Hackfest in Hamburg 2013 (from the Hackfests part of the development budget) to 1500EUR. @Caolan, Michael: Could you sign this off? Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[board-discuss] Adjustments to the QA budget usage: netbooks, contest budget

2013-06-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Recent developments have caused me and Norbert to adjust the use of the QA budget as follows: - we will only buy three netbooks for QA triagers now (at 300EUR each) - we reserve up to 200 EUR for the top five contributors during the contest - we reserve addditional up to 200 EUR for swag

Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14

2013-01-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:06:19PM +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: The QA netbooks have already been discussed on QA Call. The idea is to have a budget for a set of netbooks that we can give publically as prizes to our most active QA contributors in QA marathons and triage contests. A few

Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14

2013-01-15 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: QA netbooks (Björn) I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so the

[steering-discuss] Re: confcall tomorrow

2011-10-29 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:45:38PM +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 10/28/2011 12:05 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: tomorrow, at 1400 UTC, the next conference call takes place. Right now, we are in a transition phase from the Steering Committee to the Board of Directors, so I would like to

[steering-discuss] Re: confcall tomorrow

2011-10-28 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Florian Effenberger floeff at documentfoundation.org writes: tomorrow, at 1400 UTC, the next conference call takes place. Right now, we are in a transition phase from the Steering Committee to the Board of Directors, so I would like to explicitly invite those who are new with us to join