Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
+1 That being said, we should send out a note to accepted speakers how the refund process works, as soon as we know the available sum Jean Weber wrote on 2012-09-19 03:58: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. $ 454 = accommodation in Berlin $1546 = contribution towards airfare For reference, the cheapest round-trip economy fare from Australia is around AUD 2150, plus extra cost of flights between where I live and an airport with flights to Europe. -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
Hello, The Board of Directors at time of the vote consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 6 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote. The vote is quorate. A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes. Result of vote: 6 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals. Decision: The request has been accepted. This message is to be archived by the BoD members and their deputies. Florian Jean Weber wrote on 2012-09-19 03:58: I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. $ 454 = accommodation in Berlin $1546 = contribution towards airfare For reference, the cheapest round-trip economy fare from Australia is around AUD 2150, plus extra cost of flights between where I live and an airport with flights to Europe. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Jean Jean Hollis Weber -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] Budget - assignment and coverage
Hi Florian, *, Am 19.09.2012 09:40 schrieb Florian Monfort: Can't the board hire someone who's job would be to develop TDF's sponsoring channels ? If we lack people/money to hire for office tasks, then maybe we should think about having someone to develop our revenues ? In terms of sponsorship I suppose since we are a foundation and not a company. Some sort of salesperson but who's job would be to find contracts with potential partners, not clients. Well I'm not a board member, but this sounds like a good idea. Maybe engaging kind of kick-off officer might be worth thinking about, who helps kick off activities which are considered necessary but were not mounted yet. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier bitsfr...@documentfoundation.org wrote: [..] Friedrich -- Friedrich Strohmaier - Admin team - The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[tdf-discuss] Invitation to join LibO's QA Team
Hi Everyone, This is an invitation to our users to join the volunteers with the quality assurance team and help continue to make LibO a better software suite for everyone. No programming skills are needed (although if you have some it can be useful). What we do: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/qa-testers/ Our current project is to get our large backlog of bugs triaged (organized, confirmed, prioritized). Because our team isn't very large we have a difficult time keeping up with new bug reports (along with doing the other tasks needed to be done by QA) so we are looking to add a few (if not more) people. We are currently trying a group together to do a triage event on IRC where a group of us spend 1-2 hours triaging as many bugs as possible. If you're at all interested please reply to this email and we'll go from there. Best Regards, Joel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] Invitation to join LibO's QA Team
This sounds like something I would love to do. Although the IRC timing could get awkward as my time zone is so far ahead of Europe and the Americas! Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, This is an invitation to our users to join the volunteers with the quality assurance team and help continue to make LibO a better software suite for everyone. No programming skills are needed (although if you have some it can be useful). What we do: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/qa-testers/ Our current project is to get our large backlog of bugs triaged (organized, confirmed, prioritized). Because our team isn't very large we have a difficult time keeping up with new bug reports (along with doing the other tasks needed to be done by QA) so we are looking to add a few (if not more) people. We are currently trying a group together to do a triage event on IRC where a group of us spend 1-2 hours triaging as many bugs as possible. If you're at all interested please reply to this email and we'll go from there. Best Regards, Joel -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [board-discuss] Work to be done by TDF officers
Hi Michael, *, Am 19.09.2012 11:32 schrieb Michael Meeks: On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 22:10 +0200, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: I'm not against having paid officers in general, but they should do meta tasks, i.e. rather looking for people doing necessary work - for example by poking sponsors to provide manpower than doing the work themselves. I'm not sure this model generally works so well :-) Sponsors are not lacking tasks of their own and tend to value the ability to direct their own resources: that's why they pay them. Having said that I think you capture something really important: If we contract anyone it is critical to ensure that they are someone who works well with, and is a respected part of the community. Currently we have plenty of people full-time on the code who (I hope) work in that capacity: they do some of the less sexy work to allow volunteers to do the bits they love best, they help mentor people and empower them and so on - presumably that pattern can work elsewhere too ? Maybe I was not clear: I talk of what *TDF* pays for. I'm happy community work having done by paid people, paid by external resources as You describe. For example - we're contracting Tollef currently to do some bugzilla administration around freedesktop: he's the existing sysadmin in that space, is widely respected and is doing a great job: my hope is that that is not too controversial a pattern :-) Who is we? SuSE, TDF? Aside from that, we have a ton of un-met administrative needs that go far beyond system administration: you point out one: fund-raising, there is a lot more detail around the board that requires significant investments of time to get right - and these tend to fall through the cracks. Couldn't agree more! The boards intention though is to contract an *infrastructure* officer. Btw.: wasn't me pointing out the fund-raising issue ;o)). Anyhow - it's great to hear about the good work you're doing in the admin team, that sounds really encouraging, and is much appreciated. Thanks for the flowers! Generously waving the honey spoon is a nice gesture ;o)) regards Friedrich -- Friedrich Strohmaier - Admin team - The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
