[board-discuss] Incoming call: LibO at nonprofit
Hello, since it's mostly Thorsten and me having the joy of dealing with incoming calls, I'd like to make all of you participate. ;-) Therefore, I post incoming calls that we did not manage to pick up e.g. due to absence, in anonymized form, hoping someone will follow-up. There's one request from October 19th, from a nonprofit organization. They seem to have issues with LibreOffice, and didn't manage to send us an e-mail. A short callback, probably pointing them to our mailing list, would be required. German language seems to be required as well. Volunteers? Otherwise, I'll simply delete the task, because I'm constantly overworked. Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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 not be shared with third parties Hummm, every member of the Board of Trustee would qualify no ? Norbert
[board-discuss] Travel refund volunteers needed
Hello, unfortunately, as of today, we have three events that have not been refunded to the participants yet, some have been waiting more than a month for their refund, which is a very unfortunate situation. The bottleneck is that most of the work is within Thorsten and me, and we are constantly overworked (I speak for myself here, but I guess it's similar with Thorsten). I'd like to call out to the board to find one volunteer helping us to deal with managing travel refunds. I guess Thorsten is happy with doing the accounting, and I am also happy to support for legal questions, but there are several more steps required. In a nutshell, it's: (1) Getting to know the approved budget from the board (2) Asking the organizers for a list of all participants (3) Knowing our travel refund policy (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies) and its limitations plus the workflow (4) Collecting all receipts, putting all (valid) requests in a table or database (5) Making the cut after a deadline, to then see whether funding is available for everyone, or whether we need to limit it (like: everyone only gets 80% of the requested amount) or ask the board for topping-up the budget (6) Sending the receipts for refunding either to TDF or SPI, depending on who pays Agreeably, this is no joyous task, but it's part of the boards duties to take care of it, and it will make our contributors happy if they don't have to wait for a too long time. Any volunteers? Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] Incoming call: LibO at nonprofit
Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2012-10-25 10:58: Hummm, every member of the Board of Trustee would qualify no ? I think there's no real legal issue if the board asks XYZ to return a call. However, thinking of the caller, speaking to TDF's own voicemail, and getting a return call from someone who is TDF member - I don't know if I'd like that if I were the caller. Thoughts welcome, of course. Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] daylight savings time
Hi Florian, Am 23.10.2012 13:31, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, in many countries, the daylight savings time will end soon. In Germany, in the night to October 28th, clocks will be set one hour back, so the local time will be UTC+1 from then on, instead of UTC+2 like it is now. In other words: For many countries, our 1500 UTC scheduled board calls will soon be one hour earlier, like 1600 local time instead of 1700. Shall we reschedule to 1600 UTC, to keep the same local time for most countries? please reschedule. 16.00 local time would be too early for me. Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de
