Re: [board-discuss] Candidacies to the BoD elections so far

[Daniel A. Rodriguez]

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Am 25.11.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Daniel A. Rodriguez:
>>
>> I just thought that is nice to see some faces
>>
>> http://s9.postimg.org/ur0iv0zxb/TDF_Board_Candidates.png
>>
>>
>> sorry for the missing picture by the way
>
>
> You've forgotten Joel and Andreas.

Joel was there already
Now I've added Andreas and Simon

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I am Jan Holešovský, 38 years old, married, father of two girls, living
in the Czech Republic.  Many people know me under my nickname "Kendy".
I work for Collabora as Engineering Manager.

In the LibreOffice community, I currently serve in the Membership
Committee.  Regarding my contributions, I am a developer with deep love
of the user interface - hacking it, improving it, measuring it.  I am
active in the Design team, organize the calls there, and take & send
minutes to the appropriate mailing lists.  I represent the Design team
in the Engineering Steering Committee.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring and
onboarding of new community members.  Every year I am a mentor of a
student or two via the Google Summer of Code.  I am also actively trying
to lower the barriers to entry for non-developers, either in the Design
team, or recently in the Documentation team too.

Should I be elected into the Board of Directors, I will resign from
the Membership committee.  Also, I recuse myself from overseeing the
elections due to conflict of interest.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in the
Board to help making decisions that support doers in their work, and
that lead to having more people involved in the project. I can offer my
experience from cross-team work: I am primarily a developer, but very
active in the Design team, and recently interested in the work of the
Documentation team too. I am deeply committed to LibreOffice and its
success."

To answer Charles' questions:

Charles-H. Schulz píše v Po 02. 11. 2015 v 17:38 +0100:

> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary 
> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled 
> board calls?

Yes.

> 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main 
> items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been 
> attributed to you by the board?

Yes.

> 3. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money 
> be spent, besides our fixed costs?

>From my point of view, the main reason of existence of the foundation is
to support people doing (fun) stuff; ie. on top of the tools that are
necessary for the day-to-day operation, it has to offer & improve tools
that lead to more people being involved.  I think it is wise to spend
money on lowering the barriers: Like eg. developing infrastructure for
easier editing of help files, and similar. 

> 4. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both 
> technical and non-technical?

Definitely.

> 5. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice 
> project or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its 
> influence and promoting and defending Free Software and Digital Freedom? 
> It is, after all, an integral part of its mission per its very Statutes. 
> If yes, do you have ideas on what should be done about this?

As LibreOffice and Document Liberation projects grow, The Document
Foundation itself has to grow too of course.  Having said that, the
focus on _documents_ and their relation to Software and Digital Freedom
has to stay; we have it in the name, and there is no need to become a
general Free Software foundation - there already is one :-)

> 6. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of 
> directors, given that this position does not give you any specific 
> functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects?

I suspect it will mean more of the invisible or "boring" work, like
attending more meetings, writing minutes, finding consensus between two
(or more) competing ideas, and similar.  But that is something I am used
to, and willing to do; after all, I am prepared to _serve_ in the board.

> 7. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What 
> is its biggest opportunity?

I don't think we have any particularly big problem at the moment from
the foundation point of view.  We just must not forget that we are still
at the beginning of the journey - there is still so much to do for the
LibreOffice growth.

All the best,
Kendy




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[board-discuss] Candidacy: Bjoern Michaelsen

[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 in the first election, and am serving as a
full member of the board since November 2013.

I have been a contributor to LibreOffice since long before the Document
Foundation became incorporated to be its steward and a contributor to this
codebase even longer. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal
bodies (the Board of Directors, the Engieering Steering Committee, the
Certification Committee) I try to keep up at least casual code contributions to
LibreOffice itself. OpenHub tells me that -- at least by commit count as of
today -- I continue to be in the Top Twenty of code contributors over the last
12 months. Beyond coding I had a role in a wide set of efforts and projects in
LibreOffice, for example:

- I helped LibreOffice getting rid of the old OOo build system
- I started bibisect to allow QA to pinpoint regressions more quickly
- I helped with administrative task needed for the Document Foundation, e.g.
  interacting with authorities, representing the Stiftung and boring
  banking administration
- I helped kickstarting the LibreOffice QA community that these days thankfully
  going strong all by itself
- I helped organize and coordinate LibreOffice events, from conferences to
  Hackfests
- represented and advertised LibreOffice at a wide range of events
- steamlined EasyHacks to be easily found and maintained and kept up-to-date
  for mentors via Bugzilla
- helped the execution of tendering the Android work from the foundations side,
  navigating quite a few challenges this posts to an NGO
- helped setting up other tenders and job positions, interviewing candidates
- contributed in kickstarting some of TDFs employees into the crazy world of our
  project
- encouraged, supported and pushed to get LibreOffice to use tools and means to
  improve the onboarding for newcomers: e.g. the recent TDF hiring of a mentor, 
but
  also gerrit code-review and CI

To biggest challenge for LibreOffice as a project continues to be bridging the
gaps from end users and enterprise users over casual contributors to core
developers and helping everyone to strive towards our common goals. As
LibreOffice grows, I will continue to support efforts to bring together
contributors from different backgrounds to ensure we push LibreOffice, the
product and the project, to new heights.

75-words version:
Im a longtime contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and maintain LibreOffice
packages on Ubuntu. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal
bodies, I am still regulary active on the code. Beyond that I did take part and
led various efforts beyond pure code at both TDF and for LibreOffice:
from administration, training to organization and coordination. I aim to help
LibreOffice to continue to grow organically.

Best,

Bjoern

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[board-discuss] Candidacies to the BoD elections so far

[Daniel A. Rodriguez]

I just thought that is nice to see some faces

http://s9.postimg.org/ur0iv0zxb/TDF_Board_Candidates.png


sorry for the missing picture by the way







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Re: [board-discuss] Candidacies to the BoD elections so far

[K-J LibreOffice]

Hi Daniel,

Am 25.11.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Daniel A. Rodriguez:

I just thought that is nice to see some faces

http://s9.postimg.org/ur0iv0zxb/TDF_Board_Candidates.png


sorry for the missing picture by the way


You've forgotten Joel and Andreas.


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

[Simon Phipps]

I see Charles asked some questions. Here are my responses (in-line).

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary
> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled
> board calls?
>

Yes.


>
>
> 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main
> items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been
> attributed to you by the board?
>

Yes.


> 3. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money be
> spent, besides our fixed costs?
>

The budget should be delegated to Directors and staff to minimise the
rediscussion of decisions each time spending is required. TDF's income
should be spent primarily on tasks for which there are no volunteers but
which the Board and Trustees have identified as important to unlocking
future volunteer contribution. Current activities promoting technical
tendering and community engagement are good examples of worthwhile
expenditure.


> 4. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both
> technical and non-technical?
>

Yes, although we need to take care not to create intrinsic motivations that
conflict with the extrinsic motivations of contributors.


> 5. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice
> project or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its
> influence and promoting and defending Free Software and Digital Freedom? It
> is, after all, an integral part of its mission per its very Statutes. If
> yes, do you have ideas on what should be done about this?
>

Yes. TDF should continue to carefully grow its scope, as it did by adding
DLP. TDF must take care that its growing mission and influence relates to
documents, communications and the standards associated with them, rather
than branching out into unrelated evangelism.


> 6. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of
> directors, given that this position does not give you any specific
> functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects?
>

I covered this in my candidate statement.


> 7. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What is
> its biggest opportunity?
>

TDF needs to remember its roots and purpose as it grows. It's important to
balance growth and stability, so that neither dominates to the detriment of
the other. TDF has great potential addressing the needs of the software
freedom communities regarding document-centric communication and
collaboration, and this is sorely needed because of the dominance of
proprietary solutions in the lives and minds of the world's computer users.

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[board-discuss] [DECISION] contract Jan Iversen as Development Mentoring Lead

[Florian Effenberger]

Hello,

the following decision has been taken in private and is now made public 
in accordance with our statutes:


Request: contract Jan Iversen as Development Mentoring Lead

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 7 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote. 
The vote is quorate.


A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.

Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals.
Decision: The request has been accepted.

This message is to be archived by the BoD members and their deputies.

Florian

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