Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Ask for additional employement budget

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > year, I'd therefore ask the board to approve € 600.00 on top of the > already-approved budget for employment, thus totalling an annual sum > of +1. Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, iti

Re: [board-discuss] additional FOSDEM budget

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 12:43 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > the board has previously approved [1] 2.000 € for FOSDEM collaterals. > Because we would like to opt for higher quality t-shirts, plus produce > some stickers in addition, I'd like to ask the board to approve an > additional 600 €

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expenses

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Italo, On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:29 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > Of course, I will incur is some additional expenses for fuel and meals > which could unfortunately exceed the approved budget of Euro 2,000. > > I therefore ask the BoD to approve an additional budget of Euro 500 to > cover expen

Re: [board-discuss] budget for business cards

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:32 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > I'd like the board to approve this sum for the production. +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

Re: [board-discuss] [4.0] Review

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Klaus, On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 12:05 +0100, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote: > Hi to all board members, > as 4.0.0 is rolled out there should be a review about what happened: > > The good points, the bad points > What can we do in the same way, what in a better way the next time? > What is needed

[board-discuss] [VOTE] extend Italo's Travel Expense request ...

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Sounds like we should have a formal vote on this: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 17:54 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > 1. Vote on having a budget of 2.500 € in total for your trips to > > POSSCON, LibrePlanet and FOSSC Oman, > > > 2. thereby revoking decision # 20121220-01 As pe

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] extend Italo's Travel Expense request ...

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:58 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > As per this thread, it'd be great to have a decision. My vote is +1 > naturally. And of course Florian in parallel started a vote elsewhere ;-) so vote there instead. ATB, Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] travel refund for Italo's trips

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > 1. Having a budget of 2.500 € in total for Italo's trips to POSSCON, > LibrePlanet and FOSSC Oman, > > 2. thereby revoking decision # 20121220-01 [1] +1. Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo En

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

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 13:15 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Florian Reisinger wrote: > > Thanks for helping out. If you have any question, don't hesitate and ask as > > I am subscribed to this ML.. > > The first question would be: what is the license

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call on Wednesday

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 14:08 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > this is just a quick reminder that the next BoD call takes place this > Wednesday, 1600 UTC. Dial-in details and agenda are available at > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings Unlikely that I'll be there ( t

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:12 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Robinson Tryon wrote on 2013-03-28 05:19: > > We're looking to purchase some swag and goodies for the contest. Some > > of the ideas we've come up with have included: > > please check with Thorsten first The stop

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: formal board meeting for annual report

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 10:27 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > I urge all board members to reserve this time for joining the call. In > case you cannot attend, please state your deputy 1. publically 2. by > name 3. in time. It is possible that I'll be on a plane/train at that time, as

Re: [board-discuss] dialling in via Google Hangouts

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:56 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > those of you who have issues with the phone line, here's another > approach that seems to work fairly well - dialling in to the confcall > via Google Hangouts: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Talkyoo#Connecting_from_your_co

Re: [board-discuss] dialling in via Google Hangouts

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:53 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: > Room for ESC call to do something similar ? Yep - I'd love to migrate us to a google hangout; we should get some quality webcam hardware for everyone to make that easier. > Also, just a quick question, are board meetings public? (i

Re: [board-discuss] hiring Christian Lohmaier

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 23:04 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in > > private, I hereby ask the board to > > > 1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one > > year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically

Re: [board-discuss] Hackfest Hamburg 2013 budget estimates

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 12:18 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 12:46 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > > Id like to raise the totral budget for the Hackfest in Hamburg 2013 (from > > the > > Hackfests part of the development budget) to 1500EUR. > > > > @Caolan, Michael: Could

Re: [board-discuss] inviting Brazilian community members to Freiburg

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 17:20 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > over the past weeks, the idea has grown to invite valued Brazilian > community members to the Freiburg Hackfest and afterwards have them > connect with local German hackers, like Eike, Björn and others, to > exchange thoughts and i

Re: [board-discuss] Board elections soon - think about your candidates!

2013-10-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 10:41 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > This also means that _now_ is the time to think about your favorite > candidates ... ... > In Milan, we have already talked to many of you about the requirements > such a board role has, but for everyone who is interested in details

Re: [board-discuss] Stepping back

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Charles, On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 12:50 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > While I fully intend to stay and remain active within the project, Just a few quick words to say: thanks so much for all your hard work as a board member & the insight you brought there. Looking forward to continu

[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat -- Michael Meeks

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 36 years old, affiliated with Collabora. My day job is to try to rapidly grow the economic ecosystem a

[board-discuss] nominating Adam Fyne for the Board of Directors

2013-11-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I would love to nominate Adam Fyne (Adam Co / rattles2013) for the board elections. Adam has been involved in the project since April, and in that time has become a strong contributor both directly to the code, and also indirectly in his key role at CloudOn growing the ecosystem o

[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael Meeks, elected [Deputy] Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation". My term will start February 18, 2014. Signed: Michael Meeks Ich, Michael Meeks, gewählt

[board-discuss] Nominating deputies ...

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael, Meeks, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls, in the order set forth below: 1. Andreas Mantke 2. Eike Rathke 3. Norbert Thiebaud

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

2014-02-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 16:18 +0100, Thorsten Behrens 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: Thanks; +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><

Re: [board-discuss] vote on travel policy changes

2014-04-10 Thread Michael Meeks
+1 for both. > Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http

Re: [board-discuss] Vote on changed rules of procedure

2014-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 10:30 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > based on an offlist discussion, I hereby propose the board to vote on > changing the rules of procedure. +1 - with thanks to Andreas for his work here. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@coll

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expense Approval

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:47 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > I will represent the project at the upcoming SFScon in Bolzano, on > November 14. This year, we will have a 2 hours long workshop in the > afternoon, focused on migrations and certification, in addition to a > booth (staffed by local TDF me

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expense Approval

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 12:14 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > I was not asking for a vote, but for a simple approval on a public > mailing list. Of course, it belongs to the marketing budget, but - being > myself an approver - I did not want to handle it privately between > myself and Charles.

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Proposal for Budget Process

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 14:12 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > I ask the board to vote on this, so we can formalize the process. +1 thanks for that Florian ! Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [VOTE] Re: [board-discuss] Grant request: LibreOffice project dashboard/"All about LibreOffice"

2015-08-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 08:31 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: > I'm still a little confused as to why this is happening through the > grant request process instead of the budgeting process - I read the > thread thrice and wasn't clear on an answer but...none the less. Ditto; but it's good to get

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Michael Meeks ...

2015-11-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. * Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 38 years old, affiliated with Collabora. My day job is to try to rapidly grow the economic ecosystem a

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

2015-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 11:21 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > The proper results should read: > Directors are the candidates, in this order: > Marina Latini, Michael Meeks This piece matches my pocket calculation too =) and FWIW; I think it's good to have Marina at the top o

[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board

2016-01-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Cor, Thanks for the reminder. I, Michael Meeks, elected Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation". My term will start February 18, 2016. Signed: Michael Meeks Ich, Mic

[board-discuss] Representation in the board in my absence

2016-02-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi, I, Michael Meeks, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls, in the order set forth below: 1. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud 2. Deputy Björn Michaelsen 3. Deputy Andreas

Re: [board-discuss] Representation in the board in my absence

2016-02-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Simon kindly pointed out that I'm not Eike ;-) even if I happened to borrow his mail ~verbatim; so lets try again: I, Michael Meeks, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice nominate the following deputies to represent me d

Re: [board-discuss] time for next board call

2016-03-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:56 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > the next scheduled board call would be Easter Monday, March 28, which is > a public holiday and a "long weekend" in many countries. ... > How's the board's availability ? Pretty terrible from the previous poll =) Can we not

Re: [board-discuss] Fwd: OSCAL Tirana

2016-03-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 00:32 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > The attached message is still waiting for an answer. In the meantime, I > have booked my travel, and the expense is going to be less than half the > amount originally forecasted. > > I need the approval of the expense from the marketing/com

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] change of travel policy wrt. kilometers driven

2016-03-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 16:21 +0200, Marina Latini wrote: > > Change our travel policy at > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel#Personal_Cars > > to read > > Vote: Yes +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

Re: [board-discuss] Harassment and lack of code of conduct

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bubli, On 12/01/17 11:24, Katarina Behrens wrote: > it has been brought to my attention that one of our (female) contributors, > who > is also a TDF member (this is why membership committee is in Cc:) has been > harassed in a private mail by someone who reads development and general user >

Re: [board-discuss] Harassment and lack of code of conduct

2017-02-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi K-J & Simon, On 01/02/17 14:38, Simon Phipps wrote: > We should also include João's reactions in this discussion. > There should be a real stop to defame a member or anybody else in > our community. Indeed - it is good timing =) > Maybe if we can't get a code of conduc

Re: [board-discuss] Re: COSCUP Taiwan

2017-05-05 Thread Michael Meeks
On 05/05/17 08:51, Jan Holesovsky wrote: >>> Unfortunately, travel cost to Taiwan are not negligible. At the moment >>> the combination between flight ticket and accommodation is around 1,400 >>> Euro. Based on these figures, I ask for approval of the expense (being +1 - I forget who the

Re: [board-discuss] Stepping down from Membership Committee

2017-07-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bubli, On 23/07/17 22:57, Katarina Behrens wrote: > The change I would love to see in TDF and in the community around Libreoffice > is unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future. I tried to change a thing > here or there, but I failed and I feel burned-out from fighting a very lonely > fig

Re: [board-discuss] Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bjoern, TLDR; I think we should try this - not because it is without potential problems (I'll elaborate below), but because encouraging trying new ideas is an important thing that we should be doing =) and quite probably this is another great idea from you. And then of course a

Re: [board-discuss] Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-08-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Shinnok, On 30/08/17 09:55, Shinnok wrote: > On this topic, I just probed the idea with Thorsten in my last one on one > with him > about having a BoF talk at the two tech Unis in Iasi, Romania, my hometown: The whole idea sounds like an extraordinarily effective use of time =) I love

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 29/10/17 12:37, Andreas Mantke wrote: > Am 29.10.2017 um 13:02 schrieb K-J LibreOffice: >> The announcement of the elections was done by the >> current chair of the membership committee. Of course, I'm interested in an ideal process - but I'm more interested in a good outco

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Michael Meeks

2017-11-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. Like Franklin, self-nomination feels uncomfortable as a concept, but lets try: * Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 40 years old,

Re: [board-discuss] No Candidacy To The Next Board

2017-11-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 26/11/17 23:56, Andreas Mantke wrote: > I have been (deputy) member of the board for about six years now and > from my personal view it's time to take a break or a change. I have been > involved in other volunteer projects for a while now and got the offer > to work further within t

Re: [board-discuss] No Candidacy To The Next Board

2017-11-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 28/11/17 16:34, Andreas Mantke wrote: > I'm really sure that I wouldn't take a workload again, where I used my> whole > (awake) spare time to work on the project and take no real vacation, > break etc. and get in return not too much positive feedback, but some > complaint.

[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role

2017-12-20 Thread Michael Meeks
o =) I, Michael Meeks, elected Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation". My term will start February 18, 2018. Signed: Michael Meeks Ich, Michael Meeks, gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied d

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Meeting Minutes for call on Wednesday Jan 10th, at 18:00 Berlin time

2018-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi K-J, Thanks for your mail, On 10/01/18 20:04, K-J LibreOffice wrote: > Am 10.01.2018 um 20:11 schrieb Olivier Hallot: >> Documentation meeting Minutes Wednesday January 10th 2018 >> Presents: Dave B,  Andreas K, Olivier H. >> >> Topics: >> * Book cover: >>     + By consensus of the pre

[board-discuss] Representation statement

2018-02-28 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael Meeks, elected member of the board of directors of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls and meetings, in the order set forth below: 1. Jan Holešovský 2. Simon Phipps 3. Osvaldo Gervasi -- Michael

Re: [board-discuss] Re: License information for extensions on LO's extension site

2018-08-31 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, (and thanks for raising this Stephan) I appreciate the work that you do maintaining the extensions repository - and it is always difficult to handle feedback. As you know - if people have a legal concern - they are encouraged to raise it directly with legal@ -

Re: [board-discuss] About LibreOffice Online

2018-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Daniel, On 10/10/18 14:51, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: > Is there any plan to add another way to deploy LibreOffice Online to the > current docker image alternative? https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/ Has a LibreOffice Online image. HTH, Mich

Re: [board-discuss] Apache ODF Toolkit migration

2018-11-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, First - thanks for working on this, (and Svante too) - it looks positive overall. On 28/11/2018 09:40, Michael Stahl wrote: > so i'll propose to migrate the ODF Toolkit to The Document Foundation. Seems like something the BoD should vote on, In general, subject to the

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Host the ODF Toolkit project at TDF

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On 30/11/2018 17:03, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > as the discussion seems to have calmed down, and also folks over at > Apache seem to be supportive - let me call a vote: > > * TDF to formally offer the ASF to take over the ODF Toolkit project > * by copying the existing github repo (minus perhaps

Re: [board-discuss] creation of The Document Collective (TDC)

2019-09-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Uwe, On 26/09/2019 15:28, Uwe Altmann wrote: > Just read the paper. It raised some questions. It would probably help to come to the next board call and raise your concerns. > And what I do not understand at all is the reasons there is such a > complicated and a difficult to zero contr

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] public vote resolution on TDC (The Document Collective)

2019-09-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On 30/09/2019 11:12, Marina Latini wrote: > at the end of the last board meeting (27.09.2019) I was asked to send > out this email vote to be posted on this public board-discuss list. > > The following vote was proposed during the last meeting: > > --

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Michael Meeks

2019-11-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. Self-nomination feels uncomfortable as a concept, but here goes: * Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 42 years old, I try to she

Re: [board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?

2019-11-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, As you know, I'm a fan of you & your work on improving LibreOffice. What you write is (I assume) intended as humorous, but doesn't seem a terribly fair characterization from many angles. I'm rather encouraged that lots of board members want to make TDF a saf

Re: [board-discuss] Self-nomination for next Board

2019-12-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, I for one am grateful for all candidates that stand in the election. I expect each of them to act as individuals in the best interest of TDF and for all of them to have a shared primary affiliation to LibreOffice. I also think we should be encouraging those people that stand, a

[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role

2020-01-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Thanks Gabriele, I, Michael Meeks, elected Director of the Board of "The Document Foundation", hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation". My term will start February 18, 2020. Signed: Michael Meeks Ich, Michael Meeks, ge

Re: [board-discuss] creation of The Document Collective (TDC)

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dennis, On 07/02/2020 17:43, Dennis Roczek wrote: There are some attractions however to having multiple jurisdictions involved - we've really appreciated the flexibility that SPI has helped us with over the years (as an example). As I do not find the numbers in the already published led

Re: [board-discuss] Representation statement

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 20/02/2020 13:57, Andreas Mantke wrote: > Am 20.02.20 um 14:47 schrieb Franklin Weng: >> I, Franklin Weng, elected member of the Board of Directors of The >> Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the >> following deputies to represent me during board calls a

[board-discuss] Representation statement

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael Meeks, elected member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls and meetings, in the order set forth below: 1. Nicolas Christener 2. Paolo Vecchi -- Michael

Re: [board-discuss] Trademark policy

2020-02-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dennis, On 28/02/2020 13:04, Dennis Roczek wrote: > you just were telling us in the public part of the board meeting that > the TDF can remove the trade mark of the TDC with a prenotification of > 30 days. That is the plan. > Is the trade mark policy basically the one published in the

Re: [board-discuss] How is TDC compelled to keep the user first?

2020-02-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Brett, First thank you for your questions; cogent, lucid, well articulated & challenging :-) On 28/02/2020 14:04, Brett Cornwall wrote: > Other Free Software projects have had for-profit entities created > underneath the stewardship of a non-profit; Mozilla Corporation and > Canonical

Re: [board-discuss] Invitation to public TDF board meeting on Friday, March 13th at 1300 Berlin time

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Drew, On 11/03/2020 17:43, Drew Jensen wrote: > I was wondering about the 'FOSDEM goals' is there something that should > be read before that meeting or is the meeting meant to introduce them? The latter =) the old & new boards came up with some key goals for the year a month or go or

Re: [board-discuss] OwnCloud offering

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Uwe, On 19/03/2020 10:23, Uwe Altmann wrote: > Just got a mail from OwnCloud offering owncloud.online as "ownCloud as a> > Service" - advertising "integrated OnlyOffice for easy and secure > real-time collaboration on documents, spreadsheets and presentations" > > Is someone there to talk to

Re: [board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Sam, On 26/06/2020 17:32, Sam Tuke wrote: > It seems like only one member of the current Board of Directors was > present in that meeting (though there may have been some who stayed > silent; please correct me). Interestingly the slides were also posted here a week ago, and discussed i

[board-discuss] Some problems.

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi all, This is a short summary of some of the problems that I see with LibreOffice, and this is written with my personal / Collabora hat on. People are welcome to question my motivations - but my mission is to try to nurture a successful FLOSS project that creates excellent FLOSS Office P

[board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Meeks
One clarification since it caused some private questions: On 07/07/2020 21:13, Michael Meeks wrote: > Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into > LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing > lots of marketing, being the largest code

[board-discuss] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
re interested. Clearly next time we'll do more shouting from the roof-tops. > And I personally think, arguments like Michael Meeks (quoting from IRC): > > "Individual users don't need to contribute, but they would be OK with > Personal. But corporate users, that also

Re: [board-discuss] Personal Edition label and define is wrong.

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Peter, On 07/07/2020 00:46, Peter Dolding wrote: > Well will all new enterprise need features now appear in the > "LibreOffice Enterprise" first and then "LibreOffice Enterprise" users > have to beta test them before they come to Personal Edition? I think there were some slides which

Re: [board-discuss] UPDATED Draft Marketing Plan 2020-2025

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On 09/07/2020 16:23, Italo Vignoli wrote: > All community members should look regularly at the dashboard, is a very > useful tool which provides a good overview of activities. Indeed; you can see it here: https://dashboard.documentfoundation.org/ Though I believe it is

[board-discuss] LibreOffice Personal & TDF's statutes & purpose

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Alex, On 06/07/2020 10:27, Alexander Werner wrote in bugzilla at > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486#c23 > Cleary, The Document Foundation must release a version that is open > to all intended audiences. As clearly stated in the statues, the > intended audience is: ever

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On 09/07/2020 17:00, Paolo Vecchi wrote: > That was a temporary placeholder used while the developers implemented a > potential tag line features that may or may not be used depending on the If nothing else, it served a good purpose to actually get the discussion started after we'd had s

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kev, I havn't had a chance to get back to your rather detailed and interesting feedback en-mass; but let me respond to just this one (nearly totally off-topic) nugget =) On 10/07/2020 05:15, Kev M wrote: > Personally, in the IT world, I usually ignore the "contact us for > pricing" ven

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On 10/07/2020 11:12, Florian Effenberger wrote: > With all the feedback received, I strongly propose to leave 7.0 without > tagging and finalize the plan for a later release. I share Thorsten's view. While I've generally been a big proponent of getting everything nailed down in one try,

[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Lionel, First - thanks for your thoughtful feedback. I essentially agree =) On 10/07/2020 02:40, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > Redhat will sell you a yearly subscription for a single workstation, > as low as 180 USD. So will SuSE for 32 GBP. Will any ecosystem company > scale down ? That

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Toki, On 12/07/2020 22:41, toki wrote: > They might be mistaken, but in as much as Collabora has > stated that they have had zero new customers since 2018 To correct this mis-apprehension; I spoke about new Desktop product customers, and Thorsten reported a similar experience at CIB.

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Toki, On 13/07/2020 01:11, toki wrote: > By way of example, whenever I open a document in> Apache OpenOffice I think I've detected the location of the bug already. > and that AOo and LibO are slowly migrating towards > mutual incompatibility. I expect that this is a matter of

Re: [board-discuss] Some problems.

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Uwe, On 13/07/2020 11:01, Uwe Altmann wrote: > TLTR?: Become a professional managed organization I imagine it's not just Italo that has concerns with that =) > Teach people that LibreOffice is not the gratis version of MS > Office but a real great idea which they can and shall suppor

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Regina, First - thank you for your help getting at least one TDF tender un-blocked to get that ODF 1.3 support implemented. That's much appreciated :-) On 13/07/2020 14:13, Regina Henschel wrote: > "Edition" itself is dangerous too, because it implies, that the download > from TDF migh

Re: [board-discuss] Some problems.

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
essage would be great that does this differentiation in one place outside of the software. > Ultimately, the goal should be to somehow convince organizations > currently using other office suites to migrate to LibreOffice > (Enterprise), and I think that the popularity of TDF's Li

Re: [board-discuss] Proposed rebranding in global perspective

2020-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
edition is not > something you want to rely on in an "enterprise" setting. Fair enough. > I'd like to thank Michael Meeks for his thought-provoking analysis, > though, which makes the motivations behing the branding change more > understandable. While I'm not

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Leo, On 13/07/2020 22:07, Leo Moons wrote: > It strikes me that there's a lot of talk about large organizations, that > don't contribute to the community. But why not talk to these > organizations? Its a good idea, and of course everyone is trying to do that. For example when C'bra fi

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jonathon, On 12/07/2020 20:32, toki wrote: > On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: >> I think Thorsten stated more cleanly as: >> >> "The market for desktop libreoffice is tough; >> sales cycles frequently count in multiple years"

Re: [board-discuss] New Version of Strategic Marcom Plan

2020-07-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 15/07/2020 18:48, kainz.a wrote: > If you are at an LibreOffice conference there are 40% people from > ecosystem and 40% volunteers. By head-count - there are a vast number of volunteers doing great stuff, they completely swamp the full-time paid developer head count. Many

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
cture things to be deliberately unfair. To a large degree TDF helps to seed the environment for the ecosystem to flourish around the codebase and fulfill its mission with it. Arguably (and I would say this) TDF cannot fill every niche, and serve every market itself - for a host of reasons. On 14/07

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On 14/07/2020 12:22, Sophi wrote: > There is another item here, I know several orgs buying services from > companies that are not good players with FLOSS communities. This is > something in my view which is important to address Absolutely. So - the original plan here was not just just to

Re: [board-discuss] Initiative to improve communication channels

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On 17/07/2020 18:52, Daniel Armando Rodriguez wrote: > Well, misunderstanding of ideas can be avoided simply by communicating > in such a way that no aspect is taken for granted when making the > request for feedback. I have no problem with tools to get polls / feedback from our userbase

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Telesto, On 28/07/2020 21:35, Telesto wrote: > I'm still getting a little annoyed by the 'free beer' matter. =) > While at GNU they state "We sometimes call it “libre software,” > borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to > show we do not mean the software is g

[board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 03/09/2020 19:59, Andreas Mantke wrote: > b) TDF currently has 221 members and none of them asked any question to > the candidates! > > That's something to think long and hard about. What does this mean to > the democratic culture of the foundation. It was created to get the > memb

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Daniel, On 04/09/2020 14:29, Daniel Armando Rodriguez wrote: >> * many MC members say they want to expand the membership. >>   Given that LibreOffice is rather static in terms of its >>   number of those involved in development: coding, UX, >>   translation, documentation etc. >> >> + how d

[board-discuss] an Online move ...

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, This is a detailed mail, so it shows up as a TLDR; then a status quo / resolution / benefits triplet, and a link to our FAQ. We're excited about this as a way to decisively unwind a number of inter-related problems at TDF. We'll keep an up-to-date version of this in the FAQ. * T

[board-discuss] Re: TDF-Business-Entity

2020-10-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andreas, On 30/09/2020 09:40, Andreas Mantke wrote: >>  c) form sub-group to work out and publish business entity proposals >>     URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3294 >>     Status: Criteria list (Lothar) Draft proposal for Luxemburg entity >> (Paolo), next meeting orga(Thor

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Quentin, On 29/10/2020 00:00, Quentin Christensen wrote: > I must admit I will have to go back and have a look at the current state > of issues with LibreOffice 7 and NVDA 2020.3. If you can come up with a list of prioritized / bucketed a11y issues - we can try to estimate what it cost

Re: [board-discuss] [DISCUSS] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations

2020-12-01 Thread Michael Meeks
and leaves the > door open in all directions. Keeping that door open is useful; as I wrote in my original mail: https://www.mail-archive.com/board-discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg04727.html On 01/10/2020 10:13, Michael Meeks wrote (here): > Of course, we would love to see TDF co

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations

2020-12-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Daniel, On 02/12/2020 17:21, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: > I consider that contributions to COOL, should not taken into > consideration for TDF membership. I'm sure the membership committee will take all of these things into consideration as they deliberate. If that is their decision, p

[board-discuss] Re: [VOTE] LibreOffice 7.1 marketing plan

2020-12-08 Thread Michael Meeks
these would be removed. If that is the case - then I support the plan, +1, otherwise it will need significantly more thought. Was that an oversight in shrinking the slides ? and of course, luckily it's a link so easy to tweak ? Thanks, Michael. -- Micha

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