Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

[Andreas Mantke]

Am 02.11.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz:
> (...).
>
> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary
> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled
> board calls?

Yes. I already did that in the last nearly four years. I asked my
employer for some days of vacation to attend all in-person meetings
(including informal ones).
And I have no issue to use the tools provided by the TDF infra team.

>
>
> 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main
> items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been
> attributed to you by the board?

I did that already within the current board.

>
>
> 3. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the
> money be spent, besides our fixed costs?

The project TDF and LibreOffice needs a good technilogical
infrastructure. We invest already in this area and had to go further in
this way. This means not only invest in hardware and the use of free
software but also in growing up the infra structure team that drive this
area (e.g. organize frequent infra meetings/hackfests).
Beside this we need to invest more resources in building local (and
global) communities with technical and non-technical members. We need to
make more local meetings and especially also such with attending devs
and non-technical members.
We should focus more on educating people about our free office suite and
the importance of free standards, especially the default use of ODF.
Thus we need to spend more resources and  money on traveling of
especially local people to events, schools, universities and other
opportunities to get our messages across.
TDF will support the growth of the ecosystem and will point of the
opportunity of business entities to contract developers for implementing
features, fixing bugs etc.

>
>
> 4. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both
> technical and non-technical?

We already have a vital community of developers and we just contracted a
mentor for (especially new) contributors to the LibreOffice development.
But I think it's important to focus in the same way onto the more
non-technical part. We need to invest more in helping and growing up our
local communities, e.g. support more local community meetings, local
marketing (roadshows, events etc.) (and joint meetings of technical and
non-technical contributors).

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>
> 5. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice
> project or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its
> influence and promoting and defending Free Software and Digital
> Freedom? It is, after all, an integral part of its mission per its
> very Statutes. If yes, do you have ideas on what should be done about
> this? 

It's part of the mission and I'm promoting free software and open
standards as often as possible, e.g. I attended meetings about open data
for this reason and talked there about the use of ODF as standard.

> 6. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of
> directors, given that this position does not give you any specific
> functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects?

The members of the board are responsible for running the entity
according to the regulations. Aside this they are only member of the
community with their area of contribution. Their opinions etc.   - like
those of other community member  too - may have some bigger influence in
the discussion process because of their experience and knowledge. But
that has nothing to do with sitting on the board.

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>
> 7. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What
> is its biggest opportunity?
>
I would not speak about the biggest problem, but it is always an issue
of organisations and it's the field of our biggest opportunity at the
same time:

Organisations as well as groups tend to have their own language and
struggle always with openess, transparency and the culture of welcome.
TDF has done a good job in this field already with making decision,
income and spendings as transparent as possible. We need to go further
in this direction. This is not an easy task, but it is worth to put some
effort into this, especially to strengthen TDF's widely recognized
organisational culture. This will help us to attract more (also
non-technical) contributors and to get supported by other institutions.

Kind regards,
Andreas

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Re: [tdf-members] [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

[pierre-yves . samyn]

Hi

>De: "Charles-H. Schulz" 
>I would like to thank the candidates who already took the time to answer 

+1

>I hope their answers will help our members get a better idea

Certainly, in my case and I expected answers with great interest.

So I would also like to thank Charles-H for his initiative.

Best regards
Pierre-Yves

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Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

[toki]

On 02/11/2015 16:38, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:

> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary
> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled
> board calls?

Can you be more specific with what you mean by "necessary technological
tools"?

By way of example, one organization that has been trying to recruit me
for years, uses software that is only available for Windows 7, for their
board meetings. (Software that doesn't run under WINE.)

jonathon



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Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

[Joel Madero]

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On 11/28/2015 09:57 AM, toki wrote:
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> On 02/11/2015 16:38, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
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>> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary
>> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly schedule
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>> board calls?
> 
> Can you be more specific with what you mean by "necessary technologica
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> tools"?
> 
> By way of example, one organization that has been trying to recruit me
> for years, uses software that is only available for Windows 7, for the
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> board meetings. (Software that doesn't run under WINE.)

We use phone and Google Hangouts for our meetings - some people don't
use Google products so they just call in to the conference line with a
phone which is perfectly fine. Then computer access is usually required
to see live minutes (not OS specific). We currently use Google Docs for
a few things due to the live collaboration/viewing but hopefully will be
able to move to LibreOffice Online at some point next year.

That's the technology that comes to my mind that would be required to
actively participate in board calls.

Best,
Joel

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