Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco
Hi Michael, members, community! Sharing my answers, thanks for the questions! On 04.09.2020 08:17, Michael Meeks wrote: ... * 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,

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Telesto
Op 5-9-2020 om 18:07 schreef Dennis Roczek: I talked to many different contributors and mostly they simply do not know that there is something like a membership and also do not have any interest in another mail address and ask what are their gains in getting into the club. Still not really a

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Uwe Altmann
Hi again :) Am 05.09.20 um 18:32 schrieb Muhammet Kara: > By the way, let me try to explain the problem/unfairness described above a  > bit by example, for the ones who are not familiar with the issue: > > A and B are working in the company X > C and D are working in the company Y > > They all 

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Uwe Altmann
Hi Am 04.09.20 um 13:17 schrieb Michael Meeks: > .. > + Do you think we expand the membership by accpting > more marginal contributions for membership cf. > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Role#Contributing As § 10 (3) of our statutes read "The

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Roczek
Hi Michael, I missed something. ;-) Am 05.09.2020 um 18:07 schrieb Dennis Roczek: >> * To what degree should the MC's decisions & discussion >> be transparent (ie. publicly available) ? > Most internal discussions are about improving the tools or about > concrete applications. The discussion

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Muhammet Kara
Hi Michael, Andreas, dear members of BoT, On 9/4/20 2:17 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: 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

Re: [board-discuss] MCC questions ..

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Roczek
Hello Michael, Am 04.09.2020 um 13:17 schrieb Michael Meeks: > * 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

Re: [board-discuss] Collecting proposals on TDF subsidiary

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Roczek
Hi Paolo, Hi Florian, Thanks Florian for the new proposal. Personally I do like the idea of having a Lux-based company. I still have some questions about the "TDF Services SIS Proposal Draft" 1) "TDF’s fully owned Social Impact company (Société d’Impact Sociétal)" --> Does that mean that the

Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates

2020-09-05 Thread Muhammet Kara
Hi Andreas & all, On 8/31/20 9:06 PM, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi Uwe, all, Am 29.08.20 um 06:39 schrieb Uwe Altmann: Hi Andreas Am 28.08.20 um 08:18 schrieb Andreas Mantke: (...) b) What is your personal take on a 'cooling down' periode between being a member of leading bodies of the

Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates

2020-09-05 Thread Muhammet Kara
Hi Andreas, On 8/28/20 9:18 AM, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi, I have two first questions to the candidates: a) regarding the mission of the MC (§ 12 of the statutes) have you already participated in board calls during the last two years as external (non-member)? Yes, a few times. But I