[steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, given that the Foundation is close to being created, and that we have now nearly 100 approved members (thanks to the membership committee for their great work!), I guess that in the near future we should think about holding elections for the future board of directors. IIRC,

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think 100 is still quite small compared to the numbers of people actually involved. So the list of members is still more like a special-interest sub-set. The founder members are doing a great job and i hope that they stay in place for a long while yet. Regards from Tom :) -

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-06-06 11.22: I think 100 is still quite small compared to the numbers of people actually involved. So the list of members is still more like a special-interest sub-set. The founder members are doing a great job and i hope that they stay in place for a long

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 11:02:56 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi, 2011/6/6 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: Tom Davies wrote on

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread sophie
Hi Volker, all, On 06/06/2011 13:02, Volker Merschmann wrote: [...] I'd like to add that not every contributor wants to be a member of the foundation. Especially those who are payed for the work might not like to have a too personal connection. We can ask the membership committee if there is a

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 12:10:30 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi Volker, all, On 06/06/2011 13:02, Volker Merschmann wrote: [...] I'd like to add that

[steering-discuss] Donations page ...

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Marc, So ! thanks for your awesome work around the 3.4features page - very much appreciated. Since you're clearly so effective in making our webpages look pretty, I was wondering ... Is there any chance you could help fix / improve our donations page ? first - IMHO we

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: - Original Message From: sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 12:35:04 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi Tom, On 06/06/2011

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:41 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Until then it is pretty much vaporware and there is not much to do, even less to vote about. 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of / on our SC - since it seems some criticise them for being un-elected :-) Nice to knock

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:52:17 +0100, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com a écrit : On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:41 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Until then it is pretty much vaporware and there is not much to do, even less to vote about. 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/6/11 8:07 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Michael Meeksmichael.me...@novell.com a écrit : 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of / on our SC - since it seems some criticise them for being un-elected :-) Nice to knock down all the objections one by one of course. +1 +1