[board-discuss] REMINDER: Board of Directors nomination phase ending on Thursday, 2021-11-25, 24:00 CET/UTC+1

[Marina Latini]

Dear Community,

the nomination phase for the election of the next Board of Directors is 
still open until

Thursday, 2021-11-25, 24:00 CET/UTC+1

If you haven't done yet, please consider to nominate yourself or another 
TDF Member that you think could be a good fit for the role.


Please send nominations and self-nominations via e-mail to
electi...@documentfoundation.org (which reaches the Membership Committee 
in private)

and *at the same time (!)* to
board-discuss@documentfoundation.org (which is a public mailing list).

This election is one of the most important moment of the democratic life 
of our Foundation and now you have the opportunity to stand up and make 
the difference


At this link[0] you can see the full timeline of the election.

[0] https://listarchives.tdf.io/i/tFJzSYUUGcSjf0c0NtNiEOou

Don't be shy, stand up!

Sincerely yours,
Marina

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Caolán McNamara

[Caolán McNamara]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I'm Caolán McNamara, full time developer on LibreOffice and member of
the ESC. I'm employed as a Principal Engineer by Red Hat as part of the
Desktop Team and have been involved with LibreOffice since its
inception and had involvement with its predecessors back to a stint as
a Sun Microsystems employee on StarOffice. I'm currently living on the
damp and windy west coast of Ireland.

For LibreOffice the type of things I currently work on are the existing
Gtk3 port and the work-in-progress Gtk4 port. I also act in the
LibreOffice security team as the liaison for LibreOffice's CVE
Numbering Authority, helping to turn security reports into fixes and
managing the admin work required. I oversee the oss-fuzz continuous
fuzzing of LibreOffice and maintain our continuous document
import/export crashtesting process, discovering and fixing crashes
close to the time of their introduction. 

Full name: Caolán McNamara
Email: caol...@redhat.com
Corporate affiliation: Red Hat, Inc.

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"I'm a long term contributor to LibreOffice on the development front
and I would like to serve in the Board to help represent the
perspective of contributors to our project in order to aid the Board in
making decisions that sustain existing contribution sources and
encourage growth"


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Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Approve version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy

[Emiliano Vavassori]

Il 24/11/21 00:41, Thorsten Behrens ha scritto:

calling for a VOTE on the just-published draft update to the CoI
policy [1], to modify our Rules of Procedure [2] - such that we
reference version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy:

---

Preamble

In addition to § 7, (5) of the statutes, the Board of Directors hereby
agrees on the following rules of procedure. Notwithstanding any
regulations in the statutes, this document defines board processes,
decision making, as well as sharing and delegation of board tasks.

Binding part of these Rules of Procedure is the Board’s Conflict of Interest 
Policy: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf

Should elements of the Rules of Procedure be in collision with the
Conflict of Interest Policy, the rules of the Conflict of Interest
Policy always shall prevail.

---

According to § 1, 2. of said Rules of Procedure, this vote runs for
one week, until December 1st, 2021. After approval, the amended Rules
of Procedure will be published and enter into immediate effect.

[1] 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_rules


+1

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Board of Directors: Gabriel Masei

[Gabriel Masei]

Hi there,



I would like to run as candidate for the Board of Directors.


My name is Gabriel Masei and I’m a senior C/C++ developer at 1&1 company,

Mail & Media department, Free Products team, Bucharest - Romania. My main

task is to integrate Collabora Online / LibreOffice Online into our Online 
Office

products which I’m successfully doing for more than three years. Three years ago

we integrated LibreOffice Online (LOOL) into our Online Office products and 
later,

a year ago, we migrated to Collabora Online. As far as I know we were/are the

biggest deployer of LOOL/COOL with hundreds of instances in production deployed

through Kubernetes and tens of thousands of documents edited on a daily basis.

During the time of working on this project I contributed, and I’m still 
contributing,
as developer to COOL/LOOL/LibreOffice Core with focus on Online projects,

although the volume of contribution is by far not so consistent as I would like

because I need to split my work time between my company and community.

Currently I’m contributing to LibreOffice community as a developer, as a TDF

member and as a member of Engineering Steering Committee (ESC).


While reading about some of the current members of TDF I feel somehow

overwhelmed when I learn about their FLOSS experience which, in many cases,

is practically a lifetime experience. This is not the case on my side. I’m 
relatively

new to FLOSS (for more than 3 years), and, so far, my only experience with FLOSS

is through LibreOffice/Linux. With more than 17 years of experience as developer

of which about 14 years as developer at different companies focused mainly on

Windows platform I was pleasant surprised when I came in contact with FLOSS

and Linux platform and my interest in it grew in time. As an argument for this

I confess that I replaced Microsoft Office on my personal computer with 
LibreOffice :)

and I’m more than satisfied. Although I’m still using Windows on it, for 
historical

reasons, on my office computer I’m using Linux platform (Ubuntu) and , again,

I’m more than satisfied.

Since 2018 I attended all the LibreOffice conferences where I met a lot of 
welcoming,

passionate, highly skilled and open-minded people with whom is a pleasure to 
work and

cooperate and I’m looking forward to continue to expand this experience. 
Wherever I go

I share this experience and encourage people to get involved into FLOSS, 
something I

wouldn’t have imagined a few years ago. Also, I’m doing this inside my company 
by

trying to lobby to the deciders to get more involved into the TDF at as many 
levels as

possible including development, promotion and donations. In my home country, 
Romania,
the community is almost non-existent and this also could be a direction of 
improvement.

My FLOSS experience as developer combined with what I’ve learned about other’s

experience encouraged me to get more involved into FLOSS and one of the ways to 
do

that is to understand how it works at organizational level and get involved in 
other ways

than just as developer, and, since my only experience is with LibreOffice, I 
decided

to stand for TDF BoD as a way to achieve that. I count on your support!



Full Name: Gabriel Masei

Email: gabriel.ma...@1and1.ro

Corporate affiliation: 1&1

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

“With 17+ years of experience in software engineering and as a relative 
newcomer to FLOSS

I’m eager to get more involved in it. One of the ways to do that is by getting 
involved in TDF

and helping at decision level. By supporting my candidacy you’ll support my 
efforts of contribution

to and promotion of the principles and goals of the TDF as stated in its 
Statutes. I count on your support!”


Thank you,


Gabriel Masei

Senior C/C++ Developer, Free Products Development Romania

Phone: +40 31 223 90 62

Mobile: +40 721 934 131
gabriel.ma...@1and1.ro


1&1 Internet Development Romania SRL
Sky Tower, 246C Calea Floreasca,
13th Floor, 014476, RO Bucharest

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Approve version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy

[Lothar K. Becker]

  
  
Hi all,

+1 for it as approval from me.

Many thanks to all people from the board, the membership committee,
the attorney, the team, the advisory board, members who worked hard
to get this to this compromise version since that was a slightly
longer process with efforts on various sides. 

All the best
Lothar

Am 24.11.2021 um 00:41 schrieb Thorsten
  Behrens:


  Dear directors, all,

calling for a VOTE on the just-published draft update to the CoI
policy [1], to modify our Rules of Procedure [2] - such that we
reference version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy:

---

Preamble

In addition to § 7, (5) of the statutes, the Board of Directors hereby
agrees on the following rules of procedure. Notwithstanding any
regulations in the statutes, this document defines board processes,
decision making, as well as sharing and delegation of board tasks.

Binding part of these Rules of Procedure is the Board’s Conflict of Interest Policy: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf

Should elements of the Rules of Procedure be in collision with the
Conflict of Interest Policy, the rules of the Conflict of Interest
Policy always shall prevail.

---

According to § 1, 2. of said Rules of Procedure, this vote runs for
one week, until December 1st, 2021. After approval, the amended Rules
of Procedure will be published and enter into immediate effect.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_rules

Best,

-- Thorsten



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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Ayhan Yalçınsoy

[ayhanyalcinsoy]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I am Ayhan Yalçınsoy, 43 years old, married,
father of a girl, living in the Turkey.  I am working in public sector as a Technician, graduated doctorate on Management and Administration and I have been contributed (as a developer and packager) Pisi GNU/Linux project since 2013. 

In the LibreOffice community, I have been translated ui and help documents to Turkish since 2010. Resently, I study for localization of the user guides of LibreOffice compenents and coordinate it. In addition, I have been fixed easy hacks since 2019. However, an important part of my contribution in LibreOffice is localization.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Ayhan Yalçınsoy
Email: ayhanyalcinsoy@pisilinux.org
Corporate affiliation: Pisi GNU/Linux

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in
the Board to help make decisions that support contributors in their
work and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I
want to offer my experience from localization work, because LibreOffice is an important part of my
life."

All the best,
Dr. Ayhan YALÇINSOYManagement and Organization05072315779  

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Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Approve version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy

[Paolo Vecchi]

+1

Paolo

On 24/11/2021 00:41, Thorsten Behrens wrote:

Dear directors, all,

calling for a VOTE on the just-published draft update to the CoI
policy [1], to modify our Rules of Procedure [2] - such that we
reference version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy:

---

Preamble

In addition to § 7, (5) of the statutes, the Board of Directors hereby
agrees on the following rules of procedure. Notwithstanding any
regulations in the statutes, this document defines board processes,
decision making, as well as sharing and delegation of board tasks.

Binding part of these Rules of Procedure is the Board’s Conflict of Interest 
Policy: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf

Should elements of the Rules of Procedure be in collision with the
Conflict of Interest Policy, the rules of the Conflict of Interest
Policy always shall prevail.

---

According to § 1, 2. of said Rules of Procedure, this vote runs for
one week, until December 1st, 2021. After approval, the amended Rules
of Procedure will be published and enter into immediate effect.

[1] 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/21/Mike_BoD_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy_ver1_3_1.pdf
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_rules

Best,

-- Thorsten


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan "Kendy" Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation (again).

I am Jan Holešovský, known as "Kendy" to many, 44 years old, married,
father of two girls, living in the Czech Republic.  I work for
Collabora as an Engineering Manager, but still love to be close to the
code whenever possible.

In the LibreOffice community, I used to serve in the Board of Directors
as a member and a deputy, but have a gap of one term.  While not in the
Board, I was attending many of the public parts of the Board meetings,
not to lose contact.  Otherwise I am a developer contributing to the
LibreOffice codebase, member of the Engineering Steering Committee and
member of the Developer Certification group.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring.  I
often help the team members with their code, or review patches in
gerrit.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in
the Board to help make decisions that support contributors in their
work and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I
want to offer my experience from cross-team work and from the past
years in the Board, because LibreOffice is an important part of my
life."

All the best,
Kendy

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