-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes
Date: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 Location: Phone conference room Keeper of the minutes: Olivier Hallot (BoD) Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board) Attending: Caolán McNamara (BoD), Olivier Hallot (BoD), Florian Effenberger (BoD & Ch), Michael Meeks (BoD), Thorsten Behrens (BoD), Charles Schultz (BoD). Deputies: Bjoern Michaelsen (Deputy for Italo Vignoli (BoD)) Others: Norbert Thiebaud, Drew Jensen, Andrea 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). 7 Votes for savings account 2) OASIS membership. Fee USD 1100,00 per year, for NGOs/non-for-Profit organizations 7 Votes for OASIS membership 3) German Foundations Association meeting. Proposal for EUR 500,00 for Mike Schnagl to attend the meeting. 7 votes in favor. 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 EUR 5000,00 for high-level consulting in BZ, to be carried by FDT specialists. 7 votes in favor. 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: Porposal for funding up to USD 2000,00 covering parto of ticket and hotel. 7 votes in favor. 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. - -- 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/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP3yRPAAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxUWUIALMRtTOIjxdUbdUFRRxomDPA N0nVXWTxckJGQ5ZmRLVIlFY2kZads8D5R3Rtk5nHIUixitJUc/Jksg2tLi5KxFwC 4TYE82sypYIuGOJIVcZ564C73E4urymI0+Z8FCBe8BxhYY9tjQC0a7VVUXPhyH4z +lszR5Sptpt4xFHxNFyG7JHAc+mFpdZ3Iq8ouwdwHTV8LgFZZw3/MTJAnIOMV4si UYVbzvQquJMij6WwJ/5CQHN9wu6KscKExLhbmLIUAhBfVCxQ7tkAN/SpF7g9drdR 5ivmM6ZWsQ1n5IWQpv/QO5+uixQn6O4rLDTvOjXeB62p6z05VDXQRuSzlt4I6ZM= =faVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
