The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting 2022-05-30
Meeting Minutes
Date: 2022-05-30
Location: Jitsi
Session chair: Thorsten Behrens
Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht
In the meeting:
Board Members - Thorsten Behrens, Emiliano Vavassori, Cor Nouws,
Caolán McNamara, Paolo Vecchi, Jan Holesovsky, Laszlo Nemeth
Board Deputy Members - Gabriel Masei, Gabor Kelemen
Membership Committee Members -
Membership Committee Substitute Members - Uwe Altmann
Team - Stephan Ficht, Heiko Tietze, Sophie Gautier, Florian
Effenberger, Hossein Nourikah, Olivier Hallot, Guilhem Moulin
Community - Michael Meeks,
Representation: None
The Board of Directors at time of the call consists of 7 seat holders
without 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 or represented in the call.
The board waives all formal statutory requirements, or requirements in
the foundations articles, or other requirements regarding form and
invitation, time limits, and for the topics discussed in this meeting.
The meeting is quorate and invitation happened in time. From now on,
motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those
remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 4.
Any updates regarding director affiliations & statements of conflicts of
interest for agenda items:
* no changes, current affiliations see election page:
https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2021-board/candidates.html
The public meeting commences at 16:03 UTC / 18:03 Berlin time.
Public part
1. Answering questions from the community (tdf-board, 5 mins)
Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask
questions to the board and about TDF
* any questions (Thorsten)
* possible to have a representative of BoD at LATAM-conference in
Brasilia
* great idea (Cor)
* even to have more people here should not be a problem (Thorsten)
* big community and a lot of interest for LO in this area
* any deadline? (Thorsten)
* ~ August (Olivier)
* great opportunity to present LO (Olivier)
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* summary: one or more directors invited to attend
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full): full
* next step(s): AI Thorsten define person(s) to attend, get back to
Olivier within 2 weeks
2. Status Report: Onboarding non-profit workshop (Florian Effenberger, 5
mins)
* some small delay (Florian)
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* summary: on the radar, will follow-up with board late
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full): -
* next step(s): AI Florian to follow-up
3. Status Report: LibreOffice conference planning (Florian Effenberger,
5 mins)
* Italo & Sophie handling it (Florian)
* schedule / planning for meetings
* one day of BoD-meetings
* then joint meetings with the team/MC/community, too
* meetings: at least board, board+team - Monday 26 September,
Tuesday 27 September
* invite mid-june expected
* bi-weekly team calls on LibOCon, going forward
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* summary: planning & scheduling meetings around LibOCon
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full): full
* next step(s): AI Sophie reach out to MC for joint meeting
4. Report from Univention summit (Thorsten Behrens, 5 mins)
* great event (Thorsten)
* mostly ecosystem talks/meetings
* finally German federal gov putting public money into Open Source
* News from Dataport and their Phoenix project? (Paolo)
* open doors, explained to many how Open Source works (Thorsten)
* it would be nice to welcome them in TDF's AB in future then (Paolo)
* those things are sometimes slow, many people help here, positive
it'll work out (Thorsten)
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* summary: see blog post:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/05/24/libreoffice-at-the-univention-summit-2022/
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full):
* next step(s): keep the conversations going
The public meeting ends at 16:22 UTC / 18:22 Berlin time.
Private part
5. Status Report: Reporting from the oversight groups (Thorsten Behrens,
tdf-board, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR, tax or legal topics.
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* summary: reminder to provide the reports
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full): full
* next step(s): deadline in 2 weeks, during strategy weekend
6. Status Report: HR topic (Florian Effenberger, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR, tax or legal topics.
* shared details w/ Stephan to give a hand (Florian
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* summary: status update - in progress
* status of consent (none, poor, mostly, full): -
* next step(s):
7. Vote, Discuss: Advisory boardU (Florian Effenberger, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR, tax or legal topics.
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* summary: needs
