Re: [board-discuss] Privacy Mission Statement

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Florian Effenberger wrote: >> the Board of Directors has discussed and approved a Privacy Mission >> Statement [..] >> > Thx Florian & team for tirelessly working on this rather substantial > document! > > In this day and age, I'm glad

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Preliminary results 2015 Elections TDF Board of Directors

vasi, Simon Phipps, >> Eike Rathke. >> And as deputies: Norbert Thiebaud, Bjoern Michaelsen, Andreas Mantke. >> >> My apologies for the initial announcement and thanks to all people that >> responded. >> > As someone affected by this change: I accept the new rank

Re: [tdf-core] [board-discuss] Marketing Budget Approval for FUEL GILT 2015

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Le 25 octobre 2015 16:40:31 GMT+01:00, Italo Vignoli > a écrit : >>FUEL GILT is one of the largest conferences focused on localization >>issues, and is organized by a number

Re: [board-discuss] Design team leads

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Astron told me that the idea to have positions within the design team was not well-received and that I should discuss it with you. What do you find problematic about having positions within the team? To be clear, leads

[board-discuss] Re: [VOTE] Rules of Procedure changes

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: The draft text was not fully ready during our board call on Wednesday, I'd therefore ask the new board plus deputies to vote via email on this list: +1 Norbert -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[board-discuss] Nominate Lionel Mamane

I'd like to nominate Lionel Mamane for the upcoming Board of Directors election. Lionel as been an active volunteer contributor to the project for 3 years, becoming our de-facto Base maintainer. He is very smart, patient, considerate and has demonstrated a capacity to work well with others. I

Re: [board-discuss] asking permission to use name / logo

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: 5. Enclosed you find a document with three possibilities for a 'logo' at the header of the website of the trainingcenter. A is the one that a designer drafted after my initial info. B is extended mentioning OO C is a

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

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

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

Re: [board-discuss] FTP space for LibreOffice Server Install GUI

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Florian Reisinger wrote on 2013-03-15 20:57: I continue to work at gerrit. I just wanted to ask, when I am able to re-publish my program? (In other words: When I am able to publish @TDF FTP?) if

Re: [board-discuss] FTP space for LibreOffice Server Install GUI

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Florian Reisinger reisi...@gmail.com wrote: Am 05.03.2013 09:45, schrieb Florian Reisinger: Hi, [...] SI-GUI maybe?? Do I have the rights to do git push IMHO not... 4 days ago I asked you: 1/ I need you to register to gerrit.libreoffice.org and send me

Re: [board-discuss] FTP space for LibreOffice Server Install GUI

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Florian Reisinger wrote: So I am asking for TDF webspace as a place for releasing the program. As the current size is extreamly low, I wouldn't need more than 50 -70 M to keep ~30-50 version of the program

Re: [board-discuss] FTP space for LibreOffice Server Install GUI

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, However, someone has to check Florian's product and see if it fits into TDF. So, I have not looked into deep details (and I won't since it is in C#). but on principle it seems to address a useful

Re: [board-discuss] FTP space for LibreOffice Server Install GUI

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Florian Reisinger wrote: So I am asking for TDF webspace as a place for releasing the program. As the current size is extreamly low, I wouldn't need more than 50 -70 M to keep ~30-50 version of the program

Re: [board-discuss] Development Budget Request

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2013-01-29 18:25: We looked into some offers, and it seems e.g. Hetzner's EX4 is economical in terms of spec/price ratio

Re: [board-discuss] Splashscreen Startscreen proposals for the 4.0

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: So, votes should happen only on mailing lists. We can decide to get the random opinion of users on Google+, but it should be clear that this is not going to have the same value as the same concept expressed on the

Re: [board-discuss] Format of the BoD votes announcement

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) but there are times when a vote needs to be taken anonymously. Can you give a concrete example of such time ? I mean for a BoD vote. note: there is a distinction between private deliberation, temporarily non-public

Re: [board-discuss] Format of the BoD votes announcement

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if this would cause a group think mentality within the BoD. I know that if a name is public, being the only dissenter might dissuade a current or future BoD from dissenting. Dissenting are usually not

[board-discuss] Format of the BoD votes announcement

I'd like to suggest that the summary of the BoD vote as exemplified below be slightly changed to included nominative informations relative the the vote. In a representative democratic system, like it is the case here, where the BoD represent the Board of Trustee, It is important that the

Re: [board-discuss] Incoming call: LibO at nonprofit

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Florian Effenberger wrote on 2012-10-25 10:36: Volunteers? From the board, MC and their deputies, that is; otherwise I cannot share the call details, since it was directly to TDF and therefore should

[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-core] change in membership confirmed by authorities

Now that TDF is fully established, It is time to perform the final step of the bootstrap process and to have a membership-elected MC. I that spirit, I hereby resign from the Membership Committee. I will continue to carry on my MC duty until such time as a duly elected Membership Committee is in

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expenses Reimbursement Policy

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The Travel Expenses Reimbursement Policy (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel) appears to say that if one chooses not to fly the cheapest way, or chooses to stay at an expensive hotel, then no

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:55 AM, David Emmerich Jourdain jourd...@gmx.de wrote: If the MC need help to translation, I think I can help, 'cause I have knowledge in some languages. I already had offered my help in another situation and I offer again, if the MC wishes. As I said earlier, that

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, However, most of us is not all of us, and indeed it is one of our strenghts that we have a wide, open and diverse community, active in many countries and on many languages. I really feel

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:59 AM, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:25 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't speak

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use

Re: [board-discuss] next BoD call on Wednesday

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: At the very least, one could, once and for all, until revoked, make a actually one _should_ , since missing a call is not always a planned event :-) Norbert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h

Re: [board-discuss] Rules of Procedure

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2012-02-27 20:35: Our bylaws are an internal non-german-legal document that we use as _our_  constitution. it is not meant to be used in court. wrong. I recall one

Re: [board-discuss] AB-Member and ESC-Member on TDF-Website

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: Hi all, I looked on the TDF-Website and found out that there is no entry about the member of the AB and of the ESC. Although they are no organs of the TDF (like BoD, MC or Board of Trustees) they are very important for

Re: [board-discuss] call recordings or only minutes?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, I was wondering whether we should upload call recordings as we did in the past, or only keep them internally until the minutes are done, and then upload them to the wiki. I seriously doubt

Re: [board-discuss] PostgreSQL project - Document Foundation liaison

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu wrote: Hi, As main maintainer of PostgreSQL-SDBC, the native driver for LibreOffice to connect to a PostgreSQL database server which is going to be bundled with LibreOffice 3.5, I'm putting myself as manager of the The

Re: [board-discuss] [RESULT] New Membership Committee voted by the board

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Thorsten, * Datum: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:08:21 +0100 Von: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org [...] We would like to ask all successful candidates to formally accept their vote, by replying to this email.

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: [...] First about the ASF. This is not about ASF. ASF is just a mean to an IBM goal in that story. Now, some individuals This is not so much about individuals either... AOOo owe its existence to Corporate

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I am not questioning the prerogatives of the TDF to govern itself in any manner. Norbert is correct that I have no standing in the matter. I don't think that was the meaning of my reply, if that is what you take

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I have assumed that Thorsten has not stepped down from MC or something.   Whatever he was stepping down from was in order for him to be able to do some work that he is being blocked from doing anyway right?  So

Re: [steering-discuss] appointing Thorsten as election officer for MC

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Oct 2011, at 15:34, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-10-30 16:34: +1 from my side... do we only need one? IMHO one is enough, as we had it for the BoD elections. Note that, for

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011/10/26 André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net: We had some discussion, if we should freeze again the membership process. BoD should decide on that (I personally would not like to have again some weeks where we do not accept new members, at the other hand it might be easy to challenge the

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:38 PM, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) Minor addition after a few hours sleep and before starting work: This kind of design documentation is really essential for various reasons. What would happen if there was some kind of disaster and we were to

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:22 AM, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hello Norbert, No amount of documentation will turn a 'non-geek' into a core dev. Clean, well written code, with the least amount of 'trick' is the best documentation: It is by definition accurate, complete and

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [tdf-announce] BoD Election Candidates

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:01 AM, John Rose john.aaron.r...@googlemail.com wrote: I applied to be a candidate 5 days ago. Please advise me as to why I am not on the list below. You did inded and Simon answered to you John: Are you a TDF Member as per the election rules[1] please? I can't find

Re: [steering-discuss] [tdf-discuss] Seat at the BoD

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@apache.org wrote: If people feel that it would be helpful to TDF to have a board member who has a tight relationship with Apache, I would accept a nomination if it would be useful.

Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:05 AM, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: Why not find a way to integrate connectivity to all the major databases such as mysql and MsSQL servers? Yes, that would be great

Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: HI :) Base needs to have some documentation to help devs understand what it's trying to do. With the other apps it's much easier to have an overview even without having any documentation but Base is a lot more

Re: [steering-discuss] SPI BoD meeting

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The Board of Directors of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., will hold a public board of directors meeting on Wednesday, 14th September 2011 at 20:30 UTC. The agenda for the meeting is open for

Re: [steering-discuss] LinuxCon Europe

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 26 Aug 2011, at 10:32, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Italo, thanks for your engagement! Italo Vignoli wrote on 2011-08-26 11:04: Including food, I will spend a maximum of 300 Euro. I am asking the Steering

Re: [steering-discuss] decision on screenshots

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) +1 Possibly omit the middle paragraph. I agree with that. The second paragraph serve no practical purpose. Norbert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [steering-discuss] decision on screenshots

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think that unnecessarily exposing TDF (or people doing work for it) to a risk in a way that could NOT be fix easily quickly would be really dumb.  It is an easily avoidable risk. I think it is unnecessary

Re: [steering-discuss] funding for system operations meeting

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi David, David Nelson wrote on 2011-07-28 15:09: *Some*  being the operative word... I never heard about this... Was it publicized at all on the website mailing list and I missed it? no, it was in

Re: [steering-discuss] funding for system operations meeting

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2011-07-29 17:35: Now you are getting me really confused. Who decided what, and who is paying what ? the board of directors of the German association, which will stay

Re: [steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, David Nelson wrote on 2011-07-12 03.59: My suggestion would be to replace the words meritocratic Foundation, created by with meritocratic organization created by. Maybe that that would still create

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 09/07/11 23:26, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi all, Someone suggested I sling in some caselaw or other references on whether copyright protection is available for UIs : US Just one caselaw review :

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 13:09, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Except screen-shots in Windows can't have any useful arrows or circles to point out the exact thing being talked about in the documentation. Only screenshots of

[steering-discuss] Bootstrap BoD campaign (was: Joining the OASIS Consortium)

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, this is indeed a good point... what do the others think? We can give our +1 as recommendation to the new BoD, but I guess it will indeed be hard to bind them on decisions they have not taken.

Re: [steering-discuss] MC-meeting minutes 2011-06-16

2011/6/16 André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net: Hi, meeting minutes are at the wiki:  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2011-06-16 (Cor, Fridrich - please edit the wiki, if I forgot something important.) I'll inform the approved members (and

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Thanks for the explanations... [...] Then we communicate the anonymous token to the voter, and tell him to write it down somewhere so that he can check his vote later. how does one figure out what information is in the

Re: [steering-discuss] FYI: Apache Incubator is now voting

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to bring an FYI that the Apache Incubator has begun its voting process on accepting the OO.o proposal to become a podling within the Incubator. Thanks for the update [...] If you wish to make your

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

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] Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Let me start with a request.  If we are going to have a productive discussion, it would be best if it were done using respectful terms. If, however, as described below it is the intent of TDF [...] we can start by working

[steering-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to direct them my way (on whatever list). I'm here to listen and understand, and to offer up answers where I can. I have a question: Why would

Re: [steering-discuss] Recent incomplete or non-existent records of SC meetings

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) In addition to the recording of the SC meeting of 2011-05-12 [1] being incomplete (which is a pity since it contained some *interesting* discussion about the Brazilian community and about the MC), the same

Re: [steering-discuss] Recent incomplete or non-existent records of SC meetings

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Norbert, :-) On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 23:12, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: That must have been a recent glitch, because I do recall having listen to these recording in their entirety a the time

[steering-discuss] Announcing the ESC?

not to nit-pick, but I've just re-read the ByLaws, and nothing in there require member of the ESC to be Member of the Foundation. The Engineering Steering Committee [ESC] is composed of developers who are appointed: they are not required to be elected, and the ESC can be staffed by as many