[board-discuss] proposal for travel policy changes
Hello, as discussed during the last board call, I'd like to propose a change of the travel policy, adding the wish for a short written report after each trip. The reason is that the amount of ready-to-use text snippets for the annual report [1] is rather low. Agreeably, we never have asked for that, which is why I want to ask for it now. :-) We have lots of items, which is really great, but it's always lots of work to come up with a continuous text to fill the report [2] with all the wonderful things we have been doing. Hearing what happened directly from the community members who attended the events is much better rather than writing it afterwards based on some notes, and if we fill the 2014 report (to be published in 2015, it's too late for the 2013 one, to be published soon) with voices of many community members, we can show the diversity and engagement of our community. Therefore, I'd like to continue the discussion we had one year ago [3] and propose the following addendum to the travel policy. Being not a friend of overly strict rules, I'd like to first phrase it rather relaxed and not as a binding requirement. Should we see that only a very few people send in trip reports, I would make it a strong and mandatory requirement later on, but let's see how it goes with kindly asking first. :-) Here's the proposal: To illustrate the diversity of the community, and all the projects and event we engage with and participate in, the board strongly encourages everyone applying for a travel refund to send in a short written report along with their request. A few sentences about the event and your general impression would be wonderful, and ideally you send it in under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, so we can use it in our annual report. Feel free to also blog about your impressions and send us a link - in fact, this would be even better, to spread the word already during the year! Thank you very much for your support, and to everyone who takes the time to send in travel reports about their trip! Thoughts? ;-) Florian [1] http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/annualreport [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:TDF2012AnnualReportDE.pdf [3] http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg03210.html -- Florian Effenberger, Executive Director (Geschäftsführer) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@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/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [board-discuss] proposal for travel policy changes
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: A few sentences about the event and your general impression would be wonderful, and ideally you send it in under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, so we can use it in our annual report. Feel free to also blog about your impressions and send us a link - in fact, this would be even better, to spread the word already during the year! +1 It's much easier to write about a trip just after you've completed it than a few months later when different events start to all merge-together in your mind. A blog post is a perfect way to summarize the experience, and helps to remind everyone about the great outreach work done by everyone at TDF/LibreOffice. Cheers, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@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/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [board-discuss] proposal for travel policy changes
Hi Florian, To illustrate the diversity of the community, and all the projects and event we engage with and participate in, the board strongly encourages everyone applying for a travel refund to send in a short written report along with their request. A few sentences about the event and your general impression would be wonderful, and ideally you send it in under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, so we can use it in our annual report. Feel free to also blog about your impressions and send us a link - in fact, this would be even better, to spread the word already during the year! Thank you very much for your support, and to everyone who takes the time to send in travel reports about their trip! Thoughts? ;-) Looks great - just one question send in a short written report. Where would this be sent to? Public/Private/Personal email? Else it looks great. Maybe a couple examples of what we're looking for would be nice. Best, Joel -- Joel Madero, Member of the Board of Directors GPG Key ID: 0x8FFB1B14 - EE32 6D0F 81FF 6FAC 5AD8 10E4 0141 27C6 8FFB 1B14 The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@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/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
