Re: [board-discuss] It's ENOUGH!: Continued Nuisance with private emails
Believe me or not. It's not the only thing Thorsten did that made me lose my trust to him. Daniel A. Rodriguez 於 2022年11月30日 週三 凌晨4:46寫道： > I stated zillions ago that I was one of the targets of such behaviour in > previous term. And, indeed, it's fair intimidation. > > Also don't think that is quite new and, related to that, what surprises me > the most is that several boards has passed and no one raise his voice about > that. > > There are people who have my trust and full support, but Thorsten and Cor > are not among them. > > > > El 29 de noviembre de 2022 5:12:49 p. m. GMT-03:00, Andreas Mantke < > ma...@gmx.de> escribió: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I stated already twice on this list that I find this form of cautionary >> private emails pestering and not appropriate for an open Free Software >> project. I didn't published the name of the sender because I thought, he >> got the message and would change his behavior. But my assumption proofed >> wrong. I got bothered again with this sort of emails with strong advise, >> what I hadn't to talk about. Thus I decided that I have no choice and had >> to make the sender public now: it was always Thorsten Behrens. >> >> He is continuing ignoring that he has no permission to sent me emails in >> private. He loops in also other people into his agenda. At least TDF's >> employees only have a Hobson's choice how to react to that. >> >> I personal perceive the whole actions of the sender intrusive.This is >> intimidating. But that is only my personal perception as person >> concerned. But the intention seemed clear to me, that he wants to shut me >> up. >> >> I'm looking forward to work with the community on an improved environment >> at TDF, where an open and critical discussion will not be censored or >> blocked. >> >> I do not want to be threatened anymore by a member of the board. And it >> seems also others experience similar things, which is what today's emails >> from Emiliano, who is the vice chairperson, and Daniel, who is a member of >> the previous board, suggest. >> >> Regards, >> Andreas >> >> -- >> ## Free Software Advocate >> ## Plone add-on developer >> ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog >> >> -- > -- Franklin Weng 中華民國軟體自由協會理事長 LibreOffice 導入專家、訓練專家 LibreOffice 認證委員會委員
Re: [board-discuss] Conflict of Interest Policy
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Re: [board-discuss] Vote about Certification Updates
+1 -- Franklin Weng Deputy Chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Jul 6, 2021 22:36:50 Italo Vignoli : > As agreed during the last BoD call (July 2nd), I would like the BoD to > approve the following: > > 1. Develop a training for certification (attached), which allows to access > the "LibreOffice Certified" entry level (without specification about > migrations and training), after the usual certification review. Once the > training for certification has been approved, it will be transformed into a > series of online training classes provided through Udemy (which seems to be > almost a standard for certification training, as it is used by Microsoft, > Oracle and Cisco, plus others). > > 2. Keep the current "Migration Professional" and "Professional Trainer" as > main level certification for people who have a hands-on experience in > migrations or training (exactly as in the past). People with LibreOffice > Certification could apply for Professional Certification after 12 months from > the first certification, based on a migration/training project with extensive > documentation (a detailed report of the migration project, or a detailed > evaluation of the training project). Only people with full pre-requisites > compliance can directly access Professional Certification without going > through LibreOffice Certification. > > 3. Create the certification training for single applications: "LibreOffice > Writer/Calc/Impress/Draw/Base Certified Trainer", which is simple and > uncontroversial. > > 4. Create a "Senior Migration Professional" and a "Senior Professional > Trainer" certifications, only for certified professionals who have been > active in the project for a while and contribute as volunteers in some area. > > 5. Update all certification related documents to reflect all the above. > > Thanks, Italo > > -- > Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR > mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email it...@libreoffice.org > GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 > DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online freeze-related decisions
Emiliano Vavassori 於 2021/2/5 下午9:26 寫道: Il 02/02/21 18:10, Daniel Armando Rodriguez ha scritto: Hi, I think it's pretty clear that several BoD members, me included, have misunderstood the implication of such vote. Especially 1b. So, my take is to vote on Guilhems proposal, detailed bellow. Which I support. "rewind branches on https://git.libreoffice.org/online and for the time being deny all write operations to the repository, be it on the git or gerrit side. It'll freeze the state of the dashboard, notification, and other clones for free, and if/when we decide to accept contributions again everything will be just one switch away." +1, but I think the proposal misses some bits. I'll try to cope with them: * branches will be rewinded to commit (or the commits before) 4ca4fd34169dd386c2fa57bd28650c00b23d6864 (last commit before changes by Collabora) +1 * OpenGrok needs to point to the TDF git/gerrit +1 * revert decision 1b and (if feasible) point TDF repo on GitHub on git/gerrit on TDF infra. +1 -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online information in the release notes
+1 from me Florian Effenberger 於 2021/2/2 下午8:15 寫道: Hello, based on the previous discussion, putting the following to VOTE now: Ask the marketing team to summarize the new LibreOffice Online information website (see vote item #1 in https://listarchives.tdf.io/i/4bCUE2Lh2ffa-M8da8zEfPF7) in the release notes, adding a link to the full page [Note: The content of that website is currently edited and discussed and should be finished soon.] Florian -- Franklin Weng Member, Board of Director & Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online information in the release notes
+1 from me Florian Effenberger 於 2021/2/2 下午8:15 寫道: Hello, based on the previous discussion, putting the following to VOTE now: Ask the marketing team to summarize the new LibreOffice Online information website (see vote item #1 in https://listarchives.tdf.io/i/4bCUE2Lh2ffa-M8da8zEfPF7) in the release notes, adding a link to the full page [Note: The content of that website is currently edited and discussed and should be finished soon.] Florian -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online freeze-related decisions
Daniel Armando Rodriguez 於 2021/2/3 上午1:10 寫道: Hi, I think it's pretty clear that several BoD members, me included, have misunderstood the implication of such vote. Especially 1b. So, my take is to vote on Guilhems proposal, detailed bellow. Which I support. "rewind branches on https://git.libreoffice.org/online and for the time being deny all write operations to the repository, be it on the git or gerrit side. It'll freeze the state of the dashboard, notification, and other clones for free, and if/when we decide to accept contributions again everything will be just one switch away." +1 from me. -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online freeze-related topics
Florian Effenberger 於 2021/1/13 下午11:28 寫道: Hello, as discussed in the previous board call, there are some pending decisions to be made wrt. the temporary LibreOffice Online freeze. Here's a set of VOTES (for the board) based on the previous discussions. You may vote on each item individually, or in bulk. For DISCUSSIONS around this (for anyone), please open a separate DISCUSS thread. 1. Ask the marketing project to make a proposal to revamp the LibreOffice Online website (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/) to reflect the status quo Approve (+1) for this with some condition: The (text of) "status quo" on the web site should also be approved by the board before publishing. There is only one fact, but there are multiple ways to explain/express this fact. 2. Ask the team to keep an eye on BugZilla, and freeze/make read-only the BugZilla component for LibreOffice Online, should that be necessary (to avoid new bugs being filed, but do not delete existing content) Approve (+1) for this. 3. Point the OpenGrok repository to the mirrored Collabora Online repository, for the time being, as long as the development is not happening at TDF Disapprove (-1) for this. 4. Adapt the Dashboard for the Online repository and freeze contributions in the state immediately preceding the fork Approve (+1) for this. 5. Ask the team to remove the Online section from the release notes in the wiki Disapprove (-1) for this. -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice 7.1 marketing plan
Hi,
+1, Approve from me.
This subset is very well describing where we are and what we should do
in the next years. I agree with all the contents in this subset and
hope to take action following the plan with all the community friends.
And, Lothar's change (from 7.0 to 7.1) tells us that, we have already
had delays and should take action as soon as possible.
Franklin
Lothar K. Becker 於 2020/12/7 下午11:23 寫道:
Find the SLIDES for this vote at
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Z6Y2YeDKHoRW3s8
which are a subset of the initially shared PDF, that was made
available via Nextcloud. Removed from the aforementioned initially
shared PDF are the following slides, that are irrelevant for the vote:
slides 2, 10-14, 20-26, 36, 50-53, 62-64, 84
In the here shared PDF with the subset, slides 30, 36, 55 and 60 are
updated to reflect the version number change from 7.0 to 7.1 (in red
color).
_*Vote text:*_
- APPROVAL of the 7.1 MARKETING PLAN, especially the ACTION ITEMS from
the aforementioned shared slides slide 27 onwards.
- The board ASKS THE TEAM, especially the marketing group with Italo
and Mike, to WORK on the aforementioned ACTION ITEMS, as they are set
forth in the PDF.
- The board ASKS THE TEAM, especially the marketing group with Italo
and Mike, to MONITOR results and RECEPTION of this marketing plan and
its action items, and COLLECT AND BRING FORWARD PROPOSALS FOR CHANGES,
REMOVALS AND ADDITIONS when necessary, especially in time for the NEXT
MAJOR RELEASES and/or snapshots, or the LATEST IN SIX MONTHS' TIME
_*Notes on the vote: *_
- The vote on the TAG ("Label") will be sent in a separate e-mail
after this. It is marked as "TBD" (to be determined) in the slide deck.
I now ask ALL the board members to VOTE with APPROVAL (+1),
DISAPPROVAL (-1) or ABSTAIN (0).
The _*vote will CLOSE*_
Thursday, December 10, 1800 Berlin time
Thanks to everyone for your work on the marketing plan and your
commitment to making it a success.
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Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice 7.1 tag ("label")
Hi,
My vote is as follows:
3. Community : Though it may not be very meaningful to people outside
the FOSS community, but since this term (Community version) is quite
commonly used in many different software, such problem can be overcome IMO.
2. Advance : A neural one to me
1. Rolling: Not in favor of this since IMO it is quite tightly bound
with development.
Franklin
Lothar K. Becker 於 2020/12/7 下午11:28 寫道:
As announced in the previous mail, as follow-up to the marketing plan,
the board ALSO has to decide on a concrete TAG ("Label") for
LibreOffice 7.1.
Find the SLIDES with the THREE PROPOSED TAGS at
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/sTKeS4NipJ6X9XH
which are from the discussion with our members, and also contain
related information on their strengths and weaknesses, provided by the
marketing team.
The proposals, in ALPHABETICAL order, are as follows:
a. Advance
b. Community
c. Rolling
_*Vote text and procedures: *_
- Please VOTE with a clear RANKING for the three TAG ("label") proposals.
No double ranks are allowed. Each ranking can be assigned just once.
3 is the HIGHEST ranking (your most favorite tag), 1 is the LOWEST
ranking (your least favorite tag).
The winner will be the tag ranked best, i.e. with the highest
overall number.
We use the ranking to come to a quick and effective decision this week.
_*Notes on the vote:*_
- This vote is NOT about possible TRANSLATIONS.
Details of that is to be decided by the local communities together
with the marketing project.
If no appropriate translation is found, the original term in English
will be taken.
- This vote is NOT about the ABOUT BOX TEXT.
This will be decided after the tag is chosen.
I now ask ALL the board members to RANK.
The _*ranking will CLOSE*_
Thursday, December 10, 1800 Berlin time
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Re: [board-discuss] [DISCUSS] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations
Eike Rathke 於 2020/11/27 下午9:45 寫道: Hi, On Thursday, 2020-11-26 11:02:46 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: 1. to freeze (not delete) the "online" repository at TDF's git, for the time being What exactly is meant here? Would it be mirrored from the Collabora github repo but gerrit disabled for it and no other write access? Or freeze in the sense that it won't be updated at all and will become stale? Even if the latter is not the original intention (but maybe it is for some people, who knows?), it will be like that after freezing. -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations
Simple answer: freezing the LOOL repository gives a very strong negative message. No matter what the alternative outcome will be, it will be better than watching the repo become stale, which is also some others' worries. Franklin Simon Phipps 於 2020/11/29 下午7:35 寫道: Please will those voting against the proposal explain their reasoning and the alternative outcome they are supporting? Thanks Simon On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:03 AM Florian Effenberger mailto:flo...@documentfoundation.org>> wrote: Hello, last Friday, the board discussed about LibreOffice Online. [1] During the call and in the discussions following, the request for a vote has been expressed, which I am hereby posting to this list. I start this here as a VOTE thread. For any discussions, please reply in the separate DISCUSS thread, which I will initiate as well. The vote that has been proposed is the following: 1. to freeze (not delete) the "online" repository at TDF's git, for the time being 1b. to switch the https://github.com/libreoffice/online <https://github.com/libreoffice/online> mirror to instead mirror the Collabora repo, for the time being, and make sure we catch pull requests there, e.g. via the mentoring alias on TDF side 2. to freeze (not delete) the translations for online in Weblate, for the time being The decision will then also be announced and shared with the various community mailing lists, to keep all the projects in the loop. Florian [1] Find the minutes at https://listarchives.tdf.io/i/enpAg8Q93rwP_69yePZQnKFT <https://listarchives.tdf.io/i/enpAg8Q93rwP_69yePZQnKFT> -- Florian Effenberger, Executive Director (Geschäftsführer) Tel: +49 30 5557992-50 | Mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org <mailto:flo...@documentfoundation.org> The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint <https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org <mailto:board-discuss%2bunsubscr...@documentfoundation.org> Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ <https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ <https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/> Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy <https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy> -- *Simon Phipps* /Office:/+1 (415) 683-7660 /or/ +44 (238) 098 7027 /Signal/Mobile/: +44 774 776 2816/ / -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations
Not sure if my previous post was successfully posted or not, here use my own email address to post again. Sorry if you got duplicated posts. Florian Effenberger 於 2020年11月26日 週四 18:03 寫道： > Hello, > > last Friday, the board discussed about LibreOffice Online. [1] During > the call and in the discussions following, the request for a vote has > been expressed, which I am hereby posting to this list. > > I start this here as a VOTE thread. For any discussions, please reply in > the separate DISCUSS thread, which I will initiate as well. > > The vote that has been proposed is the following: > > 1. to freeze (not delete) the "online" repository at TDF's git, for the > time being > -1, disagree. > 1b. to switch the https://github.com/libreoffice/online mirror to > instead mirror the Collabora repo, for the time being, and make sure we > catch pull requests there, e.g. via the mentoring alias on TDF side > -1, disagree. > 2. to freeze (not delete) the translations for online in Weblate, for > the time being > -1, disagree. Regards, Franklin
回覆： [board-discuss] [DISCUSS] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations
2020年11月26日 18:04:02 Florian Effenberger : > Hello, > > parallel to the VOTE thread that has been posted to this list a minute ago, > here's the respective DISCUSS thread for questions. > >> The vote that has been proposed is the following: >> 1. to freeze (not delete) the "online" repository at TDF's git, for the time >> being -1, disagree. >> 1b. to switch the https://github.com/libreoffice/online mirror to instead >> mirror the Collabora repo, for the time being, and make sure we catch pull >> requests there, e.g. via the mentoring alias on TDF side -1, disagree. >> 2. to freeze (not delete) the translations for online in Weblate, for the >> time being -1, disagree. -- Franklin Weng Deputy Chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Jona, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Jona Azizaj, elected substitute member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Jona Azizaj Ich, Jona Azizaj, gewähltes Ersatz-Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Jona Azizaj -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Dennis, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Dennis Roczek, elected substitute member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Dennis Roczek Ich, Dennis Roczek, gewähltes Ersatz-Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Dennis Roczek -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Uwe, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Uwe Altmann, elected substitute member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Uwe Altmann Ich, Uwe Altmann, gewähltes Ersatz-Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Uwe Altmann -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Shinji, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Shinji Enoki, elected substitute member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Shinji Enoki Ich, Shinji Enoki, gewähltes Ersatz-Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Shinji Enoki -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Haris, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Ahmad Haris, elected member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Ahmad Haris Ich, Ahmad Haris, gewähltes Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Ahmad Haris -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Gustavo, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco, elected member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco Ich, Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco, gewähltes Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Gabriele, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Gabriele Ponzo, elected member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Gabriele Ponzo Ich, Gabriele Ponzo, gewähltes Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Gabriele Ponzo -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Muhammet, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Muhammet Kara, elected member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Muhammet Kara Ich, Muhammet Kara, gewähltes Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Muhammet Kara -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Acceptance of MC role
Dear Marina, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your election into the Membership Committee. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the MC by answering to this message with a "Reply all". With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors Text: I, Marina Latini, elected member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this role within the Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts. My term will start September 19, 2020. Signed: Marina Latini Ich, Marina Latini, gewähltes Mitglied des Mitglieder-Komitees der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung Bürgerlichen Rechts an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 19. September 2020. Unterzeichnet: Marina Latini -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Results for the 2020 Membership Committee election
Dear members, With the preliminary MC election results posted last Friday, and having received no objections within the challenge period, that ended a few hours ago, it is my pleasure to now declare the official results of the 2020 Membership Committee election. *FINAL RESULTS*: The board declares the following Members of The Document Foundation elected into the Membership Committee. Candidates are sorted in their order of election preference, after all preferences have been considered according to the Meek STV method with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional setting, default threshold. *Elected Members*: * Marina Latini * Muhammet Kara * Gabriele Ponzo * Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco * Ahmad Haris *Elected Substitute (Deputy) Members*: * Shinji Enoki * Uwe Altmann * Dennis Roczek * Jona Azizaj Full detailed election materials are to be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2020-mc/ with the processed STV result here: https://elections.documentfoundation.org/results.php?election_id=13 and the list of all votes here: https://elections.documentfoundation.org/votes.php?election_id=13 The board wants to take the opportunity to thank all past and new members of the Membership Committee for their service to the Community, and all candidates for running. Congratulations to the newly elected Committee Members and their deputies! With best regards, Franklin Weng on behalf of The Document Foundation Board of Directors -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Preliminary Results for the 2020 Membership Committee election
Dear Members, With the vote closing last night, we've now processed the results using OpenSTV, and I'm hereby announcing the preliminary results ready for review. The number of members that cast their votes is 147, 74 members did not. The board thanks all candidates for running, and all voters for their participation! *PRELIMINARY RESULTS:* Candidates are sorted in their order of election preference, after all preferences have been considered according to the Meek STV method with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional setting, default threshold. *Elected Members:* Marina Latini Muhammet Kara Gabriele Ponzo Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco Ahmad Haris *Elected Deputies:* Shinji Enoki Uwe Altmann Dennis Roczek Jona Azizaj *CONFIRMATION PERIOD:* The detailed results of running OpenSTV will soon be published at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/results.php?election_id=13 and a list of all votes cast is already available at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/votes.php?election_id=13 You can run the calculation yourself using OpenSTV; the machine-readable votes are at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/blt.php?election_id=13 and the preference ordering is achieved by sorting according to the order of election (from top to bottom, look for 'elected' in the results table). If there is more than one candidate elected in one step, their actual voting count determines their rank order. Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary results by mailing electi...@documentfoundation.org *prior to Tuesday, 2020-09-15, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2 (end of the day) *with a detailed explanation of their challenge. The board encourages every voter to now validate the correct entry of their ballot by comparing the matching row from https://elections.documentfoundation.org/votes.php?election_id=13 with your vote - the anonymous token shown to you at the end of the vote process needs to show up in that list, and the list of names associated with that token has to match your ballot. Thanks again for everyone for participating the vote! With best regards, Franklin -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Voting Reminder for Elections for next TDF Membership Committee
Dear Community, You have some time left for casting your vote, as the voting phase will end at Thursday, 2020-09-10, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2 (i.e. end of the day) You should have received your Membership Committee elections voting token from the sender "electi...@documentfoundation.org" with a subject of "Your The Document Foundation 2020 Membership Committee Elections Voting Token" If you haven't voted yet, please check for the mail as soon as possible and cast your vote now! With the election you have the opportunity to express your preferences and elect your representatives at the Membership Committee. Don't loose this opportunity and take an active part in the daily life of The Document Foundation. Your vote can make the difference! Regards, Franklin -- Franklin Weng Deputy Chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..
Maybe, but you still don't answer my question. In what rules forbid Daniel to do this? BTW, If I would reply Michael's question mail I would be negative too, because I don't like his way to ask such questions, just like I don't like the way you ask Daniel either. F. Simon Phipps 於 2020/9/4 下午10:12 寫道: > Hi Franklin. > > Daniel appeared to be responding negatively to Michael's question > rather than asking any of his own. I see no reason why Board members > need to argue between themselves on this thread when you've plenty of > scope for that on your secret lists. > > Best regards, > > Simon > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:09 PM Franklin Weng <mailto:frank...@slat.org>> wrote: > > Did you mean that Daniel has no rights to speak out his question? > If so, In what rules say only candidates can reply questions to MC > candidates? > > If no, then why did you ask such a question? > > F > > Simon Phipps 於 2020/9/4 下午9:47 寫道: >> I was not aware you were a candidate, Daniel. Did I miss your >> nomination? >> >> S. >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:29 PM Daniel Armando Rodriguez >> > <mailto:drodrig...@documentfoundation.org>> wrote: >> >> El 2020-09-04 08:17, Michael Meeks escribió: >> > 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 >> >> members / contributors a voice and a say. >> > >> > Fair enough =) good point - here are a few questions >> I came up with. >> > Please note - it is trivial to ask more questions in a few >> minutes than >> > can be answered in a lifetime - but here are a few things >> I'd love to >> > know >> > from each candidate: >> > >> > What is the right list for that ? board-discuss I hope. >> > >> > * 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 do you plan to gain lots of new contributors ? >> >> Don't need to be 'a lot' >> >> > + Do you think we expand the membership by accpting >> > more marginal contributions for membership cf. >> > >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Role#Contributing >> >> What's the 'more marginal contributions' meaning? >> >> > + what effect do you expect that to have on the project ? >> > >> > * If you've stood before, approximately how many people have >> > you encouraged to apply for membership ? >> > >> > * How many applications have you voted against ? >> > >> > * Do you believe we should have a half-way house / badge >> > between membership and non-membership that encourages >> > a person, and gives the a path via more contribution to >> > achieve full membership ? >> > >> > * When there are no concrete metrics (such as translated >> strings, >> > code commits, wiki changes, ask comments, etc.) available to >> > decide on a person's contribution; what is best practice for >> > MC members vouching for their friends' contributions, and how >> > should other MC members validate that ? >> > >> > * To what degree should the MC's decisions & discussion >> > be transparent (ie. publicly available) ? >> >> Any relation to MC Open Letter? >> >> > * How do you believe we can improve the existing election >> > system - assuming the statutes can be tweaked ? >> > + I'm interested in where we have the situation that >> > being too
Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..
Did you mean that Daniel has no rights to speak out his question? If so, In what rules say only candidates can reply questions to MC candidates? If no, then why did you ask such a question? F Simon Phipps 於 2020/9/4 下午9:47 寫道: > I was not aware you were a candidate, Daniel. Did I miss your nomination? > > S. > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:29 PM Daniel Armando Rodriguez > <mailto:drodrig...@documentfoundation.org>> wrote: > > El 2020-09-04 08:17, Michael Meeks escribió: > > 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 > >> members / contributors a voice and a say. > > > > Fair enough =) good point - here are a few questions I > came up with. > > Please note - it is trivial to ask more questions in a few > minutes than > > can be answered in a lifetime - but here are a few things I'd > love to > > know > > from each candidate: > > > > What is the right list for that ? board-discuss I hope. > > > > * 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 do you plan to gain lots of new contributors ? > > Don't need to be 'a lot' > > > + Do you think we expand the membership by accpting > > more marginal contributions for membership cf. > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Role#Contributing > > What's the 'more marginal contributions' meaning? > > > + what effect do you expect that to have on the project ? > > > > * If you've stood before, approximately how many people have > > you encouraged to apply for membership ? > > > > * How many applications have you voted against ? > > > > * Do you believe we should have a half-way house / badge > > between membership and non-membership that encourages > > a person, and gives the a path via more contribution to > > achieve full membership ? > > > > * When there are no concrete metrics (such as translated strings, > > code commits, wiki changes, ask comments, etc.) available to > > decide on a person's contribution; what is best practice for > > MC members vouching for their friends' contributions, and how > > should other MC members validate that ? > > > > * To what degree should the MC's decisions & discussion > > be transparent (ie. publicly available) ? > > Any relation to MC Open Letter? > > > * How do you believe we can improve the existing election > > system - assuming the statutes can be tweaked ? > > + I'm interested in where we have the situation that > > being too popular can stop you being able to > > engage at all as a deputy - as we saw with > > Miklos/Jona in the last MC election, and Kendy > > in the last Board election. > > 'Too popular'? What about that tiny little issue callled affiliation? > > > > > > -- > DAR > -- Franklin Weng 中華民國軟體自由協會常務理事 文件基金會（LibreOffice 法人代表）認證 LibreOffice 導入專家、訓練專家 文件基金會（LibreOffice 法人代表）董事會副主席、認證委員會委員
[board-discuss] Membership Committee elections voting tokens sent
Dear Community, the mail with the token and invitation to vote for the new Membership Committee has been sent out to all members. It was sent with the subject "Your The Document Foundation 2020 Membership Committee Elections Voting Token" and the sender is "electi...@documentfoundation.org" Please don't forget to check your spam folder too, in case you do not see the mail. If that message with the instructions and the token is missing, please reach us at electi...@documentfoundation.org and/or contact with me as soon as possible. We'll take action to solve the issue. The voting phase will be from *Friday, 2020-09-04, 00:00 CEST/UTC+2* (i.e. beginning of the day 04) until *Thursday, 2020-09-10, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2* (i.e. end of the day 10). A list of candidates and their reasons for running is available at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2020-mc/candidates.html . Your participation in voting the new MC members is highly appreciated! Best of luck to all candidates, and thank you for running for elections! Franklin -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Membership Committee election: List of candidates
Dear Community, The nomination phase has been ended. There are 13 candidates running for the election of the next Membership Committee. Thank you to everyone for your will to take on the duty; this is truly appreciated! You can find an overview of all the candidates, their affiliations and their candidacy statements at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2020-mc/candidates.html (The listing is in random order each time you reload the page.) Please feel encouraged to ask questions to the candidates on the public board-discuss@documentfoundation.org <mailto:board-discuss@documentfoundation.org> mailing list, where a discussion has been started already. The mail with the token and invitation to vote for the new Membership Committee will soon be sent out to all the members. You will receive another announcement on this list when this is done. The voting phase will be from *Friday, 2020-09-04, 00:00 CEST/UTC+2* to *Thursday, 2020-09-10, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2* (00:00 is beginning of the day, 24:00 is end of the day). *If you don't get the voting token, or you know any TDF member not getting the token **before Saturday, 2020-09-05**, please contact with me as soon as possible.* Your participation will be highly appreciated! Regards, Franklin -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Announcing elections for the next TDF Membership Committee
Dear Community, we hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Membership Committee of The Document Foundation. As per § 12 II of our statutes, [1] <§ 12 II of our statutes,> the Membership Committee's term lasts two years. The current Membership Committee started its duty on September 19, 2018. Therefore, the old Membership Committee remains in charge until the end of September 18, 2020, so the new MC will be in charge the day after that, which is September 19, 2020. That upcoming term will then (regularly) end on September 18, 2022, so the next election of the Membership Committee will take place before. As per § 6 III, only members of the Board of Trustees of The Document Foundation, as well as current members of any of its bodies, are eligible to be elected into the Membership Committee, and the election is overseen by the Board of Directors (§ 12 II). The active electoral right is reserved to those who have been members of the Board of Trustees before this announcement (§ 12 II). § 6 III also states that members of the Board of Directors or their substitute members may not be members of the Membership Committee and vice versa. There is one more notable limitation: Per § 8 IV of the statutes, a maximum of 1/3 members of the Membership Committee is allowed to work on an employment basis for the same company, organization, entities, affiliates or subdivisions. Nomination of candidates fulfilling the above requirements, as well as self nomination is welcome. In total, at least five members of the Membership Committee are required, and given there are enough candidates, up to four substitute members can be elected based on the last board decision on this matter. Re-election of current members of the Membership Committee is explicitly permitted (§ 12 II). Please send nominations and self-nominations via e-mail to electi...@documentfoundation.org (which reaches the Board of Directors in private) and *also (!)* to board-discuss@documentfoundation.org (which is a public mailing list). We kindly ask nominees who would like to stand for elections to provide a statement of up to 75 words - longer statements will be cut off at the maximum - on their candidacy as continuous text (so no bullet lists or multiple paragraphs). In addition, you have to provide your full name, e-mail address and your corporate affiliation, if any, and please announce that you will provide information on all future changes as soon as possible. Specifically, it is necessary to indicate all information regarding § 8 IV of the statutes. Discussions with the candidates and questions to them as well as questions about the elections should take place on the public board-discuss@documentfoundation.org mailing list. For details on how to use the mailing list, see https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ Eligible voters will receive further details via e-mail prior to the start of elections, including a summary of the candidates, details on how to access the voting system, and instructions on how to independently verify the vote count. Please ensure we have your recent and correct e-mail address on file. For questions, you can reach the Board of Directors in private at electi...@documentfoundation.org Following the time line set forth in § 12 II, requiring a 45 day advance notice, we hereby announce the following time line for the elections: (00:00 is beginning of the day, 24:00 is end of the day) 1. (no later than) Friday, 2020-07-17: announcement of the election; and start of the nomination phase 2. Thursday, 2020-08-27, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2: end of the nomination phase (one week before the election starts, as per § 12 II) 3. Friday, 2020-09-04, 00:00 CEST/UTC+2: official start of the elections (at least 45 days after announcement of the election, as per § 12 II) 4. Thursday, 2020-09-10, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2: end of the election 5. Friday, 2020-09-11: announcement of the preliminary results and acknowledgement of role 6. Saturday, 2020-09-12, 00:00 CEST/UTC+2: start of the challenging phase 7. Tuesday, 2020-09-15, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2: end of the challenging phase 8. afterwards: official announcement of the final results 9. Saturday, 2020-09-19: new Membership Committee officially in charge, and election of a Chairperson from among its members Be advised that the newly elected Membership Committee will only be in charge beginning from September 19, 2020. Challenges to this election announcement with respect to the deadlines outlined have to happen no later than seven (7) days after this announcement, via e-mail to electi...@documentfoundation.org (which reaches the Board of Directors in private). Challenges to the preliminary results of the election have to happen until the deadline set forth above, via e-mail to electi...@documentfoundation.org (which reaches the Board of Directors in private). On behalf of the Board of Directors, Franklin Weng [1] https://www.documentfoundation.org/satzung.pdf (b
[board-discuss] Board statements to the 7.0 rc "Personal Edition" label
Dear LibreOffice Community, supporters and friends, Thanks to the hard work put in by many individual and ecosystem contributors, working together as a team in different fields, such as development, QA, design, marketing, localisation, release engineering, infrastructure, just to mention some, in a few weeks’ time we will be welcoming our LibreOffice 7.0 milestone. At the same time, we are discussing our vision for the next five years, with a starting point being marketing and branding. See our marketing and board-discuss mailing lists. Due to draft and development work in the area of branding and product naming, some speculations, in particular related to the “Personal Edition” tag shown in a LibreOffice 7.0 RC, have started on several communication channels. So let us, as TDF Board of Directors, please provide further clarifications: 1. None of the changes being evaluated will affect the license, the availability, the permitted uses and/or the functionalities. LibreOffice will always be free software and nothing is changing for end users, developers and Community members. 2. Due to the short time frame we are working with the tagline appeared on the RC and we apologise if this caused some of you to think we unilaterally implemented the change. Rest assured that the consultation with the Community is still ongoing. 3. This "Personal Edition" tag line is part of a wider 5 years marketing plan we are preparing and it has the purpose of differentiating the current, free and community supported LibreOffice from a LibreOffice Enterprise set of products and services provided by the members of our ecosystem. The marketing plan is still under development and discussion so we are eager to receive and evaluate your feedback! 4. Any feedback (in an appropriate way) to our marketing plan is welcome. There are several ways to send feedback to the Board of Directors: the most preferred way is to subscribe to the "board-discuss" mailing lists (e-mail to board-discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org), in which many of the discussions will take place in public and be archived (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/). Besides the mailing list, we have a regular time slot (around 10-15 minutes maximum) in our Board meeting public section (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings), for which we welcome all the Community members to join and raise their questions. The Board meetings are held every two weeks and are announced in a timely fashion on the board-discuss mailing list. 5. We are strongly opposed to any form of harassment, on any medium. Feedback itself is not an harassment, but personal attacks are. Please stay focused on the objective and be polite in your conversations! 6. The team of editors for the marketing plan is weighting all the input, as it is important to get the feedback to define a clear strategy supported by the entire Community. We encourage everybody to support the Board, the marketing team and the Community working out the details; certainly we don’t want to make any decisions that is backed only by a small minority. 7. This is a complex decision involving many overlapping concerns. We encourage people to read the detailed background slide-deck that Italo has produced at https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/jzryGw7XDkJadmo so that they can contribute to the current state of the discussion. Apologies again if misunderstandings arose! We would very much appreciate your feedback and support! Best Regards, >From all of The Document Foundation Board members -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan
gt; them to contribute to, and how that should be communicated to them. This is a > matter of the social contract between the Foundation and volunteers -- not > just marketing. > > There are many options here, to suit the Board's needs, and doing things > differently need not make finding consensus on already hard topics, more > difficult. The current draft plan is broad in scope, covering community > management, branding, and touching on ecosystem design. Tough topics could be > split into other sections, or strategy documents if necessary, freeing the > marketing team with more room to influence the narrower, purely marketing > topics which remain. With some brainstorming or reference to other Open > Source projects, additional means of cooperating with the team could no doubt > be found. > > Sam. > -- Franklin Weng Deputy Chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[board-discuss] Representation statement
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 and meetings, in the order set forth below: 1. Nicolas Christener 2. Paolo Vecchi -- Franklin Weng Member, Board of Director & Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role
I, Franklin Weng, 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: Franklin Weng Ich, Franklin Weng, gewähltes Mitglied des Vorstands der "The Document Foundation", nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2020. Unterzeichnet: Franklin Weng Gabriele Ponzo 於 2020年1月9日 週四 17:48 寫道： > Dear Franklin, > > Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for > having been elected as member of the Board. > Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the Board > by answering to this message with a "Reply all". > > I wish you a Happy New Year! > Kindest regards. > --- > Gabriele Ponzo, Chairman of the Membership Committee > The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin > Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts > Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > > " > I, Franklin Weng, 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: Franklin Weng > > Ich, Franklin Weng, gewähltes Mitglied des Vorstands der "The Document > Foundation", nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The > Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2020. > > Unterzeichnet: Franklin Weng > " >
Re: [board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?
2019年12月3日 06:21:43 Sam Tuke : > Thanks Thorsten; that's very helpful context. The 48% chance you referenced > does indicate that the issue is still larger than this particular election. > It's also worth noting that Gabriele, Italo, and others did a great job of > reminding us of the opportunity to stand, and the deadlines. > As the election has a strict timetable, it seems that a procedural change > would now be necessary in order to avoid a board devoid of women. > Were procedural changes possible, they could include extending the nomination > phase, or keeping one or more seats open explicitly for a female board member > in future. If such changes are impossible, then those ideas could be explored > by the next board. > Thoughts from other Board members or Trustees? This might be the most direct > stimulus to this subject for another two years. > Thanks, > Sam. IIRC in the current term the board has only few decisions regarding genders. Currently I care more about the diversity of the community itself, i.e. to motivate communities in different countries, to include different fields of people like designing, marketing, politics, …etc. We may need more spaces to make these people shining in the FOSS world. Also, ages may be a more serious problem than genders especially in some local communities. That's why I proposed the students program, to try attracting more young people into the community. As for the board, I'm sure that it will eventually be diverse enough as long as 1) the composition of our community members are broad enough, and 2) we don't block the interactions between the board of trustees and the BoD and the MC. -- Franklin Weng, Member, Board of Director & Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint [https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint]
[board-discuss] Self nomination to BoD
Hi all, --- Nov. 22, 2017 --- The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries. Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX." --- Oct. 22, 2019 --- The above paragraph was my candidacy statement when I first ran for BoD position. Thanks to the support from the community, I was very honoured to be elected that time. After joining the board, I surprisingly realized that there are so many works and tasks to run a foundation like TDF. I also realized how great the staffs behind TDF are. Without these people working so hard the LibreOffice community and TDF would not be such a great community. They also inspired me to keep going on the way to promote LibreOffice and ODF in Taiwan and other Asian countries. During these two years I've invited many great friends from Japan, Korean, Indonesia and Taiwan to join TDF as members. I held the first certification interview in Taipei, helped and attended LibreOffice Indonesia in Surabaya, LibreOffice Asia Conference and the second certification interview in Tokyo. I have kept promoting ODF and LibreOffice (and its derivatives) in Taiwan, where the KPI of our central government agencies in 2020 is to deliver 100% ODF/PDF files in digital document exchanging. Thanks to support and help from all the community friends. I'm proud to say I have delivered my commitment in my first term of BoD. Nevertheless during these two years I also see some problems and constraints of LibreOffice community and TDF. Some from the law, and some from the reality which we need to overcome. I'm not going to say in too much detail; rather just mention one thing here: IMHO we need more new blood getting involved into this beloved community. Therefore I started working on some programs, both in Asian community and TDF, to try attracting more people, especially young students to join us. Now I decide to run for another term of BoD. If I am elected again as a BoD member, I'll put more focus on 1) co-work with community friends from different countries -- not only Asian -- to try attracting more people to get involved in; 2) to further promote Open Document Format, which I think it the core spirit of LibreOffice, in more countries and areas; 3) to make the LibreOffice ecosystem more complete, by enhancing and completing the LibreOffice certification system. IMHO the above three things are highly related, even actually the same thing. I believe that's what we should do, and I'll keep doing it. --- My Candidacy --- Full name: Franklin Weng (Weng, Chia-Chi on my passport) E-mail address: frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw, frank...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: Software Liberty Association Taiwan The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, I'll keep the work to connect Asian communities together as in my first term, and furthermore I'll co-work with community friends to try attracting more new blood getting involved in this community. I'll also keep promoting ODF, which IMO is vital to enhance and complete the LibreOffice ecosystem." Regards, Franklin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] public vote resolution on TDC (The Document Collective)
+1 from me. Marina Latini 於 2019/9/30 下午6:12 寫道: > Dear Directors, > 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: > > - > The Board RESOLVES to start creation of The Document Collective > (TDC) by taking the following acts: > - Broadly, to implement the concepts in the Board's Document > "The Document Collective" version 0.4 > (https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/6FLTHyR8kYTAjrY) > - Appoint a transitional leadership Group comprising Nicolas > Christener, Eike Rathke, Michael Meeks, Thorsten Behrens, Uwe Altmann > - Direct the Group to sign an agreement with Public Software CIC > hosting TDC as an unincorporated association > - Allocate a line of credit of €5 to be requested > incrementally as needed by Public Software CIC for TDC when the Group > so directs, > to be returned once a surplus is available and at the Group's > discretion concerning timing and portioning, with the addition of 3% > annual interest. > - Grant Public Software CIC a trademark license for > "LibreOffice" when used in the context of an online application > software store > - Direct the Group to initiate availability of LibreOffice for > Mac OS and Windows through the appropriate app stores for an > appropriate fee > - Request the Group to take over making available Impress Remote > and LibreOffice Viewer if each or either proves appropriate for TDC > - Direct the Group to commission a mechanism to spend TDC's > income surplus in the manner agreed by the Board's Document > - Direct the Group to plan for the transfer of all TDC > activities and liabilities to an independent legal entity as soon as > practical, > with governance implementing the concepts in the Board's > Document. > - > > ATB, > Marina > -- Franklin Weng Member, Board of Director & Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Host the ODF Toolkit project at TDF
Hi, Thorsten Behrens 於 2018年12月1日 週六 01:05寫道： > Dear board, > > 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 the simple API) > * taking the existing markdown documentation & website, and on a > best-effort > basis either importing that into MediaWiki, or keeping a static HTML > copy available > * offer to take over ownership of the odftoolkit.org domain > > Vote is open for the usual 72h. > > Cheers, > > -- Thorsten > Absolutely support. +1. Regards, Franklin
Re: [board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board web meeting on Friday, November 23rd, at 1400, Berlin time
Besides ESC I would suggest to get some more professional visual designers
into this topic.
Simon Phipps 於 2018年11月19日 週一 下午6:36寫道：
> Since this primarily affects the software would it not be a topic for the
> ESC?
>
> {Terse? Mobile!}
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 11:32 Heiko Tietze
>> I'd like to ask again for a decision regarding the MIME icon. Question
>> was if we can find a more appearing icon for LibreOffice or create
>> something more special for TDF (the brand is too close to the product). And
>> I received a request to restart the mascot topic. Belongs to the same
>> topic, somehow.
>>
>> On 18.11.18 21:20, Marina Latini wrote:
>> > Dear Community,
>> > the board will meet again
>> >
>> > on Friday, November 23rd, at 1400, Berlin time
>> >
>> > We'll meet using our own Jitsi instance at
>> > https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard
>> > or at
>> > https://meet.jit.si/TDFBoard **ONLY** as fallback.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Public part
>> >
>> > 1) LibreOffice Online for other organizations
>> >
>> > 2) FOSDEM meeting and agenda
>> >
>> > 3) quarterly reports
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > If you have something to discuss with the board, please, reply to this
>> > message and join us during the meeting.
>> >
>> > ATB,
>> > Marina
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Heiko Tietze
>> UX designer
>> Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509
>>
>>
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Franklin Weng
中華民國軟體自由協會理事長
LibreOffice 導入專家
LibreOffice 法人代表文件基金會董事、認證委員會委員
KDE 協會成員、歐洲自由軟體基金會成員
[board-discuss] Nominate Ahmad Haris to run for next Membership Committee
Hi all, I hereby nominate Ahmad Haris, an active FOSS enthusiast from Indonesia, to run for Membership Committee. Haris is the founder of BlankOn, an Indonesian Linux distribution based on Debian testing. He led the Indonesian FOSS community for some years. In early years he had run business providing (FOSS) system building and services for government. During that time they resided WebODF in their system successfully. In March 2018 Haris hosted the LibreOffice Conference Indonesia very successfully. I believe that he should get involved more and play an important role in LibreOffice community. Therefore running for MC is a good chance, also because he can attract more people for participating FOSS tasks. Name: Ahmad Haris E-mail: ahmadharis1...@gmail.com Affiliation: (left empy to let him fill) Regards, Franklin -- Franklin Weng, Member, Board of Director & Certification Commitee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] limited ability to contribute for some time
Hi Cor, Take care! Wish you heal well soon. Franklin On 2018年6月20日 下午6:44:30 [台北], Cor Nouws wrote: >Hi all, > >Some already know, but repeating for others to know: 10 day's ago I've >broken the elbow of my right arm, the one that is leading, so I'm in a >phase where I have to be careful and am limited in what I can and not. >This in the situation where we just moved home (and office) to a new >house, with lots to do. >This eats quite some energy and attention. So apologies for me being >silent and slow in answering etc. But please always do poke me if >needed, but then in a way that it's e.g. visible in the subject of the >mail. > >I'm confident that all will be well, and we're happy with and grateful >for the new home :) > >Cheers, > >-- >Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors >The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin >Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts >Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > >GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 >80A6 >mobile : +31 (0)6 25 20 7001 >skype : cornouws >blog: cor4office-nl.blogspot.com >twitter : cor4office >jabber : cor4off...@jabber.org > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: >board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org >Problems? >https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: >https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: >https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ >Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- Franklin Weng, Member, Board of Director & Certification Commitee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
[board-discuss] Representation statement
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 and meetings, in the order set forth below: 1. Jan Holešovský 2. Simon Phipps 3. Osvaldo Gervasi -- Franklin Weng, Member, Board of Director & Certification Commitee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role
Hi everyone, Here is my statement to accept the position: I, Franklin Weng, 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: Franklin Weng === Germany version === Ich, Franklin Weng, gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2018. Unterzeichnet: Franklin Weng
[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role
It's my honor to accept this position and responsibilities. I accept. Regards, Franklin 2017年12月21日 上午5:59，"Gabriele Ponzo" <gabriele.po...@documentfoundation.org >寫道： Dear Franklin, Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate with you for your election as member of the Board. Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the Board by answering to this message with a "Reply all". I wish you a Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year! Kindest regards, --- Gabriele Ponzo, Chairman of the Membership Committee " I, Franklin Weng, 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: Franklin Weng Ich, Franklin Weng, gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied der The Document Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2018. Unterzeichnet: Franklin Weng "
[board-discuss] Self nomination for BoD
Hi all, Well, I have been struggling for a long time, thinking if I should self-nominate or not. Marina sent messages to me to strongly suggest me to run for the BoD. I have the will to contribute more to the community, but I told her that self-nomination is really not a part of our culture. In Eastern Asian culture (Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, ... most areas affected deeply by Confucius) self-nomination usually means arrogant. Especially I have just got involved more into TDF for only around 2 years, which means "running for BoD position" is really a bold decision (and it would usually be interpreted as arrogant by people here). You may feel strange or funny, but that is exactly why I'm struggling. Today I just finished the first version of subtitles of Bjoern's interview video in LibreOffice Conference 2017. (It's on Amara https://amara.org/en/videos/JzyUE4THGsVz/en/2028661/ it's still just a draft and please feel free to proofread it). I found that we have common thoughts and ideals. In my interview I said that, what LibreOffice needs is to make more people understand that, everyone can contribute to LibreOffice (or any FOSS). It's not an easy task as we've worked hard on it for more than a decade in Taiwan. Bjoern's interview made me think more and decide to self nominate for the BoD. IMO the position of BoD is not "leading" the community. Of course members of BoD need to make decisions for many important things but I don't think it as "leading". IMO the BoD should be "the intersection of the community", which means most people in the community agree, approve, and recognize the BoD to make decisions for the community. So an important part of BoD is to communicate with people. What I can (and have been doing) contribute to LibreOffice (either as a member of BoD or not) is to spread the words everywhere, and connect LibreOffice community to Asian people more closely. Also, I'd like to keep focusing on marketing both ODF and LibreOffice, especially to the governments, either in Taiwan or in other countries. Also, I'd like to communicate and make the UX of LibreOffice more close to Asian people, or say, make it more diverse. Currently there are some UI design not friendly to Asian people (for example, in Calc there's a shortcut key Ctrl-Space, which for us is to switch the input method and hence would never transfer to Calc). Currently in Taiwan I think we're in a historical high point of adopting ODF and (derivatives of) LibreOffice, which also means that we're now in a plateau period. We're still running for a new 3-year projects and setting more rules to governments. I'd like to connect closer with ODF committee, and share my experiences to different places about ODF and LibreOffice. As for myself, I own a small company in Taiwan running for training courses and migrating projects of FOSS. But actually in most occasions I'll use the identity of the President of Software Liberty Association Taiwan, which was founded in 2001 and is an NPO to promote FOSS. In the past decade we focused a lot more on education, which I think gives us a good base to promote FOSS/ODF/LibreOffice now. Phew, that's it. I hope to have the chance to contribute to the whole community in different ways. --- separate line --- Full name: Franklin Weng (Weng, Chia-Chi on my passport) e-mail address: frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw, frank...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: Software Liberty Association Taiwan The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries. Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX." Regards, Franklin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
