Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-04-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, just a short reminder: Our call will be in five hours and ten minutes. Hope that avoids confusion. ;-) Florian

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-04-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le lundi 01 avril 2013 à 17:44 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2013-03-31 20:17: but..._practically_ the meeting time is adjusted so that it always occurs at the same CET time. so the announce could be made using UTC for convenience, but in fact that

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-04-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: The TDF BoD calls will take place every 2nd Wednesday at 1500 UTC, starting on April 3rd, 2013, and are scheduled to run for one hour. +1 -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-04-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 5 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote. The vote is quorate. A

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-04-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2013-03-31 20:17: but..._practically_ the meeting time is adjusted so that it always occurs at the same CET time. so the announce could be made using UTC for convenience, but in fact that UTC time has changed and will change according to the DST setting of CET...

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2013-03-30 18:09: www.google.com CET enter I have given up on that for certain things. ;-) Well, the issue here is that UTC, of course, does not have that funky 'daylight-saving' thing... so if you pick UTC then you will have to ask for a vote like this 2twice

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-31 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Em 29-03-2013 14:09, Norbert Thiebaud escreveu: may I suggest, to avoid that twice-yearly dance, to set the time based on CET once and for all.. rather than UTC with 2 adjustment a yer when CET switch in and out of DST. Norbert IIRC, the

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-31 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Olivier Hallot olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org wrote: UTC is very handy, believe me. Sure I find the whole DST mess stupid to start with... but... _practically_ the meeting time is adjusted so that it always occurs at the same CET time. so the announce

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2013-03-29 18:09: may I suggest, to avoid that twice-yearly dance, to set the time based on CET once and for all.. rather than UTC with 2 adjustment a yer when CET switch in and out of DST. I specifically went for UTC, as I have received many complaints in the

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-30 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 03/29/2013 01:53 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: in many countries, this Sunday daylight saving time will start again. In order to keep the effective time of the board calls constant, I'd hereby like to have a quick vote. My request is to change the call time from 1600 UTC to 1500 UTC. +1

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2013-03-29 18:09: may I suggest, to avoid that twice-yearly dance, to set the time based on CET once and for all.. rather than UTC with 2 adjustment a yer when CET switch