RE: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It is none of my business how TDF establishes its governance and qualifies its officials. Just the same, I thought it strange that there was a question of any conflict seen in Drew Jensen's participation on Apache projects. I want to say two things, because I have Drew in high regard and I

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: [...] First about the ASF. This is not about ASF. ASF is just a mean to an IBM goal in that story. Now, some individuals This is not so much about individuals either... AOOo owe its existence to Corporate

[board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times

2011-11-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, it seems we didn't yet come up with a solution. Everyone voted (thanks for that!), and e.g. Wednesday 1600 UTC looks rather good, with 7 people joining and 2 possibly, giving a total of 9. On the weekend, however, it looks rather bad. Neither Saturday nor Sunday has many people who

Re: [board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times

2011-11-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Florian, Le 06/11/2011 13:14, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, it seems we didn't yet come up with a solution. Everyone voted (thanks for that!), and e.g. Wednesday 1600 UTC looks rather good, with 7 people joining and 2 possibly, giving a total of 9. On the weekend, however, it

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I am not questioning the prerogatives of the TDF to govern itself in any manner. Norbert is correct that I have no standing in the matter. I don't think that was the meaning of my reply, if that is what you take

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Drew, Thanks for suggesting to help in the MC and your answer on Michaels questions. drew wrote (05-11-11 21:31) Howdy Micheal, et al, I believe that I bring a number of personal attributes that fit quite well to such a task. As far as I have had contact with you over the past years,

Re: [board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times

2011-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 6/11/11, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times To: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Sunday, 6

RE: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think OpenOffice before the forking was under some fairly strange leadership. ie a company that worked hard to increase community participation but not being very trusting of the communities they had grown = actively blocking many proposed patches and stuff developed by the community.

Re: [board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times

2011-11-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 11/06/2011 02:57 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: I was actually wondering if we would always need one call every week. We had a year of setup phase and obviously we still have much work to do, however, if we see things 6 months down the road maybe the BoD won't have to gather that often and