+1 . May I add my humble self for a liaison and membership budget (membership fees to other orgs)?
Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint 2012/5/3 Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> > Hello, > > since voting on each and every single expense during the BoD calls is a > bit tedious, but required by the statutes, I would like to propose an > alternative solution to make the daily operations a bit easier. > > In a nutshell, I would like to have the board appoint responsibilities to > not only, but mainly, BoD members. As an example: > > - Thorsten and Florian for administrative issues > - Alex (from the admin team) and Florian for infrastructure topics > - Michael and Caolan for development resources > - Italo for marketing projects > > and so on. Every area gets a fixed budget, either per month, quarter or > year, and if the goals fit into the statutes, the tax law and the > foundation's objectives, upon approval of one of the responsible parties, > the money can be spent without the need to have a formal BoD vote. > > Excluded should be long-term contracts and anything that is not part of > the daily operations, like entering 10 year contracts fors infrastructure, > signing exclusive advertising deals and so on - you get the point. ;-) > > Real life examples: Signing the contract with a new domain registrar, > buying a bunch of new domain names, ordering the SMS gateway, or buying one > additional machine is something the board could leave at my discretion for > infrastructure. Making expenses for the tax advisor is something the board > could leave at Thorsten's discretion, and buying one development machine or > buying required software is something Michael and Caolan could decide. > > Things like capital investments, trademark registrations, establishing a > certification program and other non-daily operations would still require > the approval of the full board. > > While the above is no readily written proposal to formally vote upon and > issue warrants, what do you generally think about it? I think if we limit > the amount to a senseful value, and have the budget on the radar, this is > something that would ease our daily operations and give people a bit more > flexibility, so we can focus on work rather than administration. > > The German FrODeV e.V. has a similar rule in their rules of procedure > ("Geschäftsordnung"), but they forsee a "veto time" of four working days, > which I'd like to either shorten for TDF or even avoid at all. > > By the way, this is something that should not go into our community bylaws > or the rules of procedure, since changing it then has some hurdles, so an > individual decision of the BoD that can be changed or revoked anytime makes > sense. > > Florian > > -- > 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<http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint> > >
