Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Approve version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy
Hi There was an issue with receiving the TDF mails on my end and I'm sorry for the possible late response. Nevertheless: I support this VOTE and version 1.3.1 of the CoI policy. All the best, Nicolas On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 00:41 +0100, 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. -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors 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
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online freeze-related topics
Hi On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 16:28 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: [...] > 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 > > 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) > > 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 > > 4. Adapt the Dashboard for the Online repository and freeze > contributions in the state immediately preceding the fork > > 5. Ask the team to remove the Online section from the release notes in > the wiki +1 from my side. I still hope we'll see "online" back at TDF in the future. All the best, Nicolas -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors 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
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice 7.1 marketing plan
Hi all :) On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 16:23 +0100, Lothar K. Becker wrote: [...] > 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 As already mentioned by Michael the Lool parts should probably be revisited. But the plan has my +1 in general. All the best, Nicolas -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors 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
Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice 7.1 tag ("label")
Hi all :)
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 16:28 +0100, Lothar K. Becker wrote:
> 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
My ranking is:
* Community
* Rolling
* Advance
Thanks a lot to all who contributed time and thoughts into this!
All the best,
Nicolas
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Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] LibreOffice Online - repository and translations
Hi all On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 11:02 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: [...] > 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 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 +1 to the three items on this list. I hope this leaves the door open to bring back the code at some point. All the best, Nicolas -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors 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
Re: [board-discuss] Initiative to improve communication channels
Hi all On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 01:51 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: [...] > One comment: > > - I'd strongly suggest that any new tool we introduce comes with a > commitment to shutdown / discourage at least one (but better more!) > existing tool. We'll otherwise quickly get to https://xkcd.com/927/ ;) > > So if https://democraciaos.org/ is to solve the > too-many-communication-channels problem - are we then shutting down > IRC/Telegram, or even the mailing lists? IMHO IRC/Telegram and mailing lists have different aims. One is for "instant communication" the other is for "more complex discussions". I love mailing lists and was quite "shocked", when other big F/OSS projects started to move away (see for example [0]). However at some point I realized, that the hurdles to participate in discussion on mailing lists are indeed too high([1]) for many people. I'm not sure if killing all mailing lists is what I would propose - but why not discussing to move most of the "non developer" lists to something like discourse (and migrate AskBot as well)? Some half-baked thoughts: * Talk to e.g. the Gnome folks about their experience regarding Discourse * Discuss a migration of AskBot to tool xyz -> could be Discourse or whatever people like * Discuss migrating a set of mailinglists to the same tool Thoughts? [0] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2019-February/msg1.html [1] Younger people don't have an e-mail address anymore, signing up requires too man steps, spam is an issue, most people don't know how to quote mails, etc. All the best, Nicolas -- Nicolas Christener, Deputy Member of the Board of Directors 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
Thanks Gabriele, I, Nicolas Christener, elected Deputy 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: Nicolas Christener Ich, Nicolas Christener, gewähltes Ersatzmitglied 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: Nicolas Christener -- 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] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Nicolas Christener
Hi all, As a LibreOffice user since the very first day and long term member of different F/OSS organizations and communities I'd like to give something back to the LibreOffice project and therefore stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. I'm Nicolas Christener, living in Switzerland, married, love skiing & music and I was born between RFC 812 and 813 :) I currently work for Adfinis SyGroup which is a company delivering services (engineering, managed services, development) around F/OSS software. We partner with Collabora and together with them we brought LibreOffice to iOS. I helped to organize LibreOffice Conference 2014 in Switzerland, the company I work for hosts some TDF servers and lately I was busy to help make the iOS app a reality. I contributed comment translations (de -> en) in the code, filled many bugs and convince user and organizations to use LibreOffice. I was also appointed by the current Board (which I'm not part of) to help start the The Document Collective (TDC). This transitional group only bootstraps the legal entity and I won't automatically be involved in the future entity. I believe that I have a good understanding of the enterprise requirements and am very community oriented which gives me a well balanced view where and how we could improve LibreOffice for the good of all of us. Full name: Nicolas Christener E-Mail: nicolas.christe...@adfinis-sygroup.ch Corporate affiliation: * Adfinis SyGroup (CEO/CTO, Member of the Board) * WineBarrel GmbH (CEO, my pet project, buy & sell rare wines) * Medelexis AG (Member of the Board) For my past engagements please also see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christener/ 75 words statement: "I'd like to serve the Board to help to grow the project and its global impact. LibreOffice has a huge potential and I would like to help getting things done more quickly and enable and motivate as many individuals as possible to grow the community. My goal is to help shape common goals and bring my experience to the table to actually reach them." If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me :) All the best, Nicolas -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Nicolas Christener, CEO | CTO, GPG KeyID: 0x5897DDEE05029923 Giessereiweg 5 | CH-3007 Bern Office +41 31 550 31 11 | Direct +41 31 550 31 13 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
