Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-04-18
Finally managed to get to this one Just some minor formal corrections, will send it out in a few seconds Thanks for taking notes! Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-06-18 14:39: Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 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 2012-04-18
Hello, find attached the meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on April 18th. Sorry for the long delay. This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Florian The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 Location: Phone conference room Keeper of the minutes: Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors) Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board) Attending: Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Caolán McNamara (Board of Directors), Charles Schulz (Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board) Others: Björn Michaelsen, Andreas Mantke, Sophie Gautier, Simon Phipps Representation: None. 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 without 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) Italo on Certification: * Made some last minute changes on the certification program, will send to the attendees * It should be clear that TDF is not legally responsible for certified people's actions. Certify competences but no act on behalf of TDF and avoid confusion from the legislation * Announcements next Wednesday, start with certification of developers * Create a certification committee * Use LinuxTag for 1st certification meeting, one full day for the task. * Do not certify someone we don't know about 2) Florian on digital certificate, spending of EUR 30,00 3) Charles Schulz on OSI: Confirmation of the go-ahead and join OSI 4) Thorsten Behrens on Apple Developer program: Request for EUR 160,00 for Apple developer support, will get some developers tools too Request: Approve all three proposals. Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals Decision: The request has been accepted. 5) Andreas Mantke on banks service offers: advise to get other offers for evaluation 6) Thorsten Behrens on travel policy: will send latest changes to internal lists The meeting adjournes at 15:33 UTC 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
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
June 2012 profits losses (was: Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-06-26)
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-06-26 This is a non-binding draft, which does not include advisory board fees. Empty fields declare either no spending, or amount already booked. Incoming Bank account 41.024,54 ⬠PayPal 937,08 ⬠Outgoing recurring fees, extrapolated to the rest of the year Servers and bandwith -4.571,00 ⬠Mail forwarding service -1.249,50 ⬠SIP line -139,30 ⬠Phone fees Domain names -678,22 ⬠Membership stiftungen.org Insurances Tax advisory (est.) -1.500,00 ⬠Authoritiy fees -150,00 ⬠Authority fees reserve -621,47 ⬠INCOMING TOTAL 41.961,62 ⬠OUTGOING TOTAL -8.909,49 ⬠TOTAL BALANCE 33.052,13 ⬠SAFETY RESERVE -15.000,00 ⬠BUDGET 18.052,13 ⬠Dear members, TDF supporters, please find attached our June 2012 profits losses report. I apologize for the German account names, which originate from tax authorities-mandated forms. Help with translations appreciated. With best regards, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Title: The Document Foundation, Berlin Profit & Loss For Period Covering 2012-06-01 to 2012-06-30 The Document Foundation, Berlin Profit & Loss For Period Covering 2012-06-01 to 2012-06-30 Revenues 3220 Erhaltene Spenden/Zuwendungen EUR 0.00 3221 Geldzuwendungen gegen Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 130.00 3223 Geldzuwendungen ohne Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 2,968.50 3225 Sachzuwendungen gegen Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 0.00 3227 Sachzuwendungen ohne Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 0.00 3230 Aufwandszuwendungen gegen Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 0.00 3232 Aufwandszuwendungen ohne Zuwendungsbestätigung EUR 0.00 Total Revenue EUR 3,098.50 Expenses 2560 Reisekostenerstattungen EUR 36.75 2565 Verpflegungskosten Mitglieder EUR 66.08 2701 Büromaterial EUR 0.00 2702 Porto, Telefon EUR 0.00 2704 Sonstige Kosten EUR 0.00 2752 Abgaben Fachverband EUR 0.00 2753 Versicherungsbeiträge EUR 902.41 2802 Geschenke, Jubiläen, Ehrungen EUR 0.00 2803 Ausbildungskosten EUR 0.00 2804 Lehr- und Jugendarbeit EUR 0.00 2810 Repräsentationskosten EUR 250.00 2894 Steuerberatungskosten EUR 0.00 2900 Sonstige Kosten ideeller Bereich EUR 0.00 2900-1 Hostingkosten ideeller Bereich EUR 697.70 2900-2 Bürodienstleistung Berlin EUR 178.50 2900-3 Allgemeine Kosten Softwarebereitstellung EUR 0.00 Total 2900 Sonstige Kosten ideeller Bereich EUR 876.20 3251 Gezahlte Spenden/Zuwendungen EUR 0.00 4712 Nebenkosten des Geldverkehrs EUR 0.00 4752 Versicherungen EUR 0.00 4894 Steuerberatungskosten EUR 0.00 4900 Sonstige Kosten Vermögensverwaltung EUR 0.00 Total Expenses EUR 2,131.44 Net income for Period EUR 967.06 pgp9vJs9X8e0X.pgp Description: PGP signature
[board-discuss] Declaration of Internet Freedom
Please will the Board consider adding TDF as a signatory to the Declaration of Internet Freedom: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom Thanks, S.
Re: [board-discuss] Declaration of Internet Freedom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes. Absolutely. +1 Em 02-07-2012 22:34, Simon Phipps escreveu: Please will the Board consider adding TDF as a signatory to the Declaration of Internet Freedom: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom Thanks, S. - -- 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/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP8lkBAAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxje0H/RuRC560N0yPRCwlBecPuEt9 SfRRqwXKBsdhnYPO++yiPrJU0pJvWm6Ul8VtOW9VjXeQ5sKTigXCbE+TpDDSaOaG eiVUdUeLhoXTTG+gYUsaK3Tv7qRYwWiultKGzuV2soU5SHGzVNI2E31hu3X+ExmI AN/HYk2yn0j1SBbkMrjCy7BKHBqFABwkBIk7g/EaDBa9JbO5NTtNQJ243ikswB9V PrVO4SFQXp5SxJ3q9ksq3hF2LvScazkAof05ps3f3dBvL/YQW1z2KYj6j3gP50c4 SCVyuYsfYGh5wsxEGxVvEY1a90MVtax208Hz7aqkwETcX88694FqDXJhwgOmkn8= =OlR9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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