Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-04-18

2012-07-02 Thread Florian Effenberger

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


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[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-04-18

2012-07-02 Thread Florian Effenberger

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

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Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13

2012-07-02 Thread Florian Effenberger

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


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[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13

2012-07-02 Thread Florian Effenberger

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

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June 2012 profits losses (was: Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-06-26)

2012-07-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
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,

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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









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[board-discuss] Declaration of Internet Freedom

2012-07-02 Thread Simon Phipps
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

2012-07-02 Thread Olivier Hallot
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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.
 

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