Re: [steering-discuss] Fwd: Re: LibO Drupal site

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:18 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010 20:53:16 Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Well - nothing against giving appropriate credit - but the question is what does he think is appropriate? This would be my first question and would have to be negotiated.

Re: [steering-discuss] FOSDEM DevRoom Call for Papers

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:09 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: Below the draft for the announcement and the link to the wiki. Looks excellent. Do we want a deadline for the cfp ? Good question; normaly some flexibility is good here, along with prodding people into action. Do

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 01:57 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Cor Nouws schrieb: Has been considered that this leads to a situation where each year people have to get used to the tasks, the other board members etc. so that maybe it is a bit inefficient? This is fairly

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] official source code repository for CD distribution[was: DVD and Jewel case design]

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 13:25 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: No, it is sufficient to provide a link to the code, but this link must be valid for a reasonable time. It is well worth reading the LGPLv3 in this regard; http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Re: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:52 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Leave the mail for TDF oficials as @documetnfoundation.org +1, I would even add the following: @libreoffice.org are only available for official contributors and even they have to request it (I don't exactly see the

Re: [steering-discuss] connecting external services to our domain

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 13:45 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: So, don't take this as a refusal, but just a question for the ease of use: Would theoretically hosting Alfresco on one of our servers also be an option to consider, or do you see huge advantages of having it on yours?

Re: [steering-discuss] Trademark Policy of the Document Foundation

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 15:46 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Please find the more or less final draft of the trademark policy of the Document Foundation: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TradeMark_Policy We've done some analysis internally on it, and the good news is that

Re: [steering-discuss] Trademark Policy of the Document Foundation

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andre, On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:37 +0100, André Schnabel wrote: Thus uses of the Marks in a domain name, or business name without explicit written permission from TDF are prohibited. just to get this right: business name means name of a product, service, company, organization

[steering-discuss] Confused by our Trademark Policy ...

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Charles, On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:42 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: I inserted inside the Logo policy page the notion of substantially unmodified version of LibreOffice that already exists in the Trademark Policy. Sure - but the Logo page seems to suggest to me that you can

Re: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 11:26 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: A Free software solution, for which they do the maintenance ? Yep. Based on Postfix, probably amavis, ClamAV and other parts of the LAMP stack. They're doing OSS consulting. Will ask if I may make their offer

Re: [steering-discuss] Suggested blog about MC work and philosophy

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andre, On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 20:58 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: I'd like to blog about the start of the Membership process. Great blog content :-) Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe

Re: [steering-discuss] proofreading the German bylaws

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 17:12 +0800, David Nelson wrote: The clause granting merit for past OOo contributions and qualifying former OOo people is surely past now? Does that clause still have utility? IMHO, it needs updating, with the date moving forward to be more relevant.

[steering-discuss] TSC details - on wrong list ...

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, This huge, technical, detailed, bug specific discussion does not belong on steering-discuss. It belongs on the developer list - (the minutes belong there too FWIW). We should keep this list for more governance reasons; please reply to anything / move threads to the

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: TDF SC call in CW 20

2011-05-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:44 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: the call is now scheduled for Sunday, May 22th, 1300 UTC (=1500 German time) For your local date and time, see the poll above. OK - I won't make it. However - the ESC are all behind partially funding Lanedo to

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: TDF SC call in CW 20

2011-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:02 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Legally, I first have to ask our board if we (German association) can spend the money that way. Shouldn't be a problem normally, but before you make a fixed deal, wait for feedback :) Thanks for that ! :-)

Re: [steering-discuss] Having fixed-time calls

2011-05-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 14:20 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Having a call on Wednesday at 1700 UTC (=1900 German time), and the following week on Satuday at 1500 UTC (=1700 German time). Next week again Wednesday at 1700 UTC and so on. For me - anything is better than something

Re: [steering-discuss] Having fixed-time calls

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 14:18 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: NB: You can ignore the specific dates in the poll, just the days of week matter. http://www.doodle.com/bqcd2u4g5w5nfzqr Would love to ;-) the problem is the links I get 'Yes' '(Yes)' 'No' for each date don't do anything

[steering-discuss] Donations page ...

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Marc, So ! thanks for your awesome work around the 3.4features page - very much appreciated. Since you're clearly so effective in making our webpages look pretty, I was wondering ... Is there any chance you could help fix / improve our donations page ? first - IMHO we

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:41 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Until then it is pretty much vaporware and there is not much to do, even less to vote about. 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of / on our SC - since it seems some criticise them for being un-elected :-) Nice to knock

Re: [steering-discuss] proposed bylaws changes

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 16:33 +0800, Varun Mittal wrote: Can we add some clarification for the case if AB wants to replace their representative mid way of his/her tenure ? I had anticipated that since the STV election process produces an ordered list - we would just select the next

Re: [steering-discuss] proposed bylaws changes

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 12:31 +0300, David Nelson wrote: Cool. I'll watch this thread and write back before starting work and after finishing work. :-) Ho hum; I'm personally averse to widespread small changes - they tend not to get the level of review that is required, and we were IMHO

Re: [steering-discuss] proposed bylaws changes

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:24 +0300, David Nelson wrote: I recall that people were requested to read the bylaws properly before voting on the original draft... :-P That was not possible at a time of extreme workload, when so much changed so quickly right before approval and then was

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:02 +0300, David Nelson wrote: I remember that, some time ago, Michael Meeks suggested OpenSTV as a tool (http://www.openstv.org/). Right. STV (Meek) is a key part of the election and bylaws since it produces a 'fair' result; it requires ranking the candidates

Re: [steering-discuss] proposed bylaws changes

2011-06-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Counting votes we had: Florian, Charles, Andre, Olivier, Italo and Sophie voting in favour; so I've made all of the edits in the wiki. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [steering-discuss] Wiki Work Items updated

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:59 +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: By unilaterally chosen - the reality included private discussion with and approval from IBM Ah, thanks for disclosing this non-trivial detail. Of course, like everybody, I can only comment on what happens in public and not on

Re: [steering-discuss] sponsoring for the Hackfest

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 19:54 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: Am 04.07.2011 14:14, schrieb Florian Effenberger: We have the offer from a service provider that they sponsor one round of food and beverages for all attendees, roughly about 250 €. In return, they would like to be mentioned

Re: [steering-discuss] funding for system operations meeting

2011-08-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jonathan, On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 09:25 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: hey florian im just curious how does one get to be a system admin? Is it limited to those people in germany or can people such as myself based in malta help out as a systems admin as well? I would like to see

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 19:26 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: I think most of the companies i mentioned already employ devs to work on projects relevant to those organisations. If they could each give one person half a week to Base Sure - but if they could each give one person have a week

Re: [steering-discuss] addition to trademark policy

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 11:02 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: if we do so, are there any objections to my proposed trademark policy change? Here it is again for convenience: So - FWIW, IMHO all of this is a bit over complicated; the more text we add the weaker the policy. I would

Re: [steering-discuss] LinuxCon Europe

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:45 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: That's an odd rule. A reimbursement for a guest or for an emissary should include Travel, Accommodation and Living. The only place in recent memory that has told me it does not pay for Living is TDF. Paying for everything is

Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?

2011-09-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tom, On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: A few people have asked about starting up a new mailing list to try to bring together people that want to work on Base. People from Documentation, Developers perhaps later on some people from Design. Is there already a

[steering-discuss] funding key Windows cross-compilation work ...

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, For various reasons this proposal has fallen through the cracks enough times, and had enough effort put into it that I believe it is best to fund it ourselves. Indeed, I believe we had informally agreed this some time back, but I forget the exact details. I propose that

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [tdf-announce] BoD Election Candidates

2011-10-05 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:34 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: You did indeed apply on September 29th[1], and I replied to you on-list[2] As you just did again. I suspect John is yet-another innocent victim of reply-to mangling. ie. he never got a reply from you because it went to the list, to

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi David, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:40 +0300, David Nelson wrote: Sorry, I just want to add this small comment/question to my preceding posts in this thread: These belong on discuss - as has been pointed out. They are also rather tangential to the role of the board IMHO - which devolves

Re: [steering-discuss] appointing Thorsten as election officer for MC

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 16:27 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: As Thorsten is elected BoD member, he is not running for an MC seat, and thus should have no conflict of interest in acting as election officer. +1. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot --

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 13:28 -0200, David Emmerich Jourdain wrote: - In a nutshell, this means: We either can decide to nominate the current MC as the first MC and have a gentlemen's agreement that they step back as soon as the foundation is in place, leading to new elections about 45 days

[steering-discuss] minutes of conf-call 2011-10-29 ...

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Sorry for the delay, weekend got in the way, no doubt this is not the canonical location for these, but ... hopefully someone can fix that for me. Action items are prefixed with 'AA'. Thanks, Michael. Present: Andre, Andreas, Bjoern, Thorsten,

Re: [steering-discuss] Vote for MC elections

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 10:30 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: == We postpone the MC elections and will have elections next year, so the next MC will be in place by July 1st, 2012. This also helps us to not having elections of BoD and MC in parallel. (NB: This is a gentlemen's agreement,

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [steering-discuss] BoD and deputies: vote on fixed times for regular BoD calls

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 17:36 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Michael Meeks wrote on 2011-11-03 16:45: Ah - I'd prefer to have a fixed time in the working week if we can make it. Also - I wonder why the doodle stops at 7pm - if we are going to .. 9pm your time is 10pm my time, which

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

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 13:14 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: 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. Right. On the weekend,

Re: [board-discuss] New foundation web pages published

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 18:59 +0100, André Schnabel wrote: as noticed before, I published some new pages at the foundation website: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/ Looks lovely ! :-) thanks for that. Hopefully it'll shame Andreas, Simon, Fridrich and Norbert into

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] End of the line for 3.3 family and regressions

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 11:46 +, Pedro Lino wrote: This isn't simply a matter of checking and reporting bugs. It involves the Quality of a product this Community claims to be Enterprise ready. IMO there can be NO regressions. Having no regressions is really a feature. That

Re: [board-discuss] PostgreSQL project - Document Foundation liaison

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Lionel, On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 10:17 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: As main maintainer of PostgreSQL-SDBC, the native driver for LibreOffice to connect to a PostgreSQL database server which is going to be bundled with LibreOffice 3.5, I'm putting myself as manager of the The Document

Re: [board-discuss] FOSDEM travel funding

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:52 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Going via train is about 8,5 hours, but available for approximately 200 €. Still rather expensive, but the cheapest I can get. I plan to arrive on the 3th and leave on the 5th, so depending on the hotel costs, I guess I need

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. Excellent by me :-) Thanks,

Re: [board-discuss] Google summer of code

2012-02-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 12:51 +0100, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote: this weekend Google starts the GSOC2012: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 Yep - it's a wonderful initiative :-) Is it something for LibO for this year? I very much hope so,

Re: [board-discuss] Market Share

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jaime, On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:13 +0100, Jaime R. Garza wrote: does anyone have a reliable source for the actual Office Suite Maket Share? Not really a question for the board list :-) Basically I need to know how is LibreOffice/OpenOffice, GoogleDocs and MSOffice. Back

Re: [board-discuss] next BoD call on Wednesday

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 12:06 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: IMHO, as per the statutes, you need to explicitly nominate someone to be your deputy. Sorry for nitpicking here, but trying to make things correctly. :-) Gosh; why didn't we make that automatic, that's a pain. I propose

Re: [board-discuss] StartSSL certification

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 08:21 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: I propose that I act as certificate master, and request that I may do so on behalf of TDF, with total fees of 119,80 USD for this year. And $60 per year from next year ? it sounds reasonable to me. I guess we should start

Re: [board-discuss] PayPal account

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 19:34 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: I'd like to call the board for a vote on the creation of a PayPal account for the new entity. I would like to create the appropriate account at PayPal (charity, and if that is not available, business account). +1 - thanks

Re: [board-discuss] buying a new server

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 22:30 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: we just experienced a disk failure on our mirror server - the hardware/kernel is simply too old for having SSDs working properly, so we right now have to switch back to the normal SATA disks, which are rather slow.

Re: [board-discuss] buying a new server

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:01 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Michael Meeks wrote on 2012-03-21 10:57: Sounds like an obviously correct decision to me - I assume it'll be sub $2k or so ? depending on what we need about 1-1,5k per year. :) More later in the call, plus

Re: [board-discuss] membership at German head association

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 14:01 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I've just filed our application with the German head association of foundations (Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen, www.stiftungen.org). Great work ! :-) Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo

Re: [board-discuss] RRPproxy domain account

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 15:25 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Next to taking over the DomainDiscount24 contract, I'd therefore like the BoD to vote on signing a contract with RRPproxy. I need some votes on this... ;-) So you have my support: +1 :-) Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] Hamburg HackFest - additional funding request

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 17:46 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: I'd therefore ask the board to approve additional funds for catering, capped at EUR 20 per participating TDF member. +1. Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant

Re: [board-discuss] Travel refund for LinuxTag - Florian Effenberger

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 12:30 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: costs of my stay to take approx. 280 € for the hotel plus approx. 140 € for the train, a total of 420 €. Payment via SPI would be sufficient for me. +1 Michael. PS. I loved your budget proposal avoiding

Re: [board-discuss] funding for admin weekend

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:34 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: like last year, the admin team of TDF would like to gather for an internal meeting, in order to discuss and work on important topics, such as virtualiziation, HA/failover, system upgrade and such. Sounds really important.

Re: [board-discuss] budget request: audit of TDF contracts by a tax advisor

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:08 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: for a few contracts, texts and procedures TDF has setup by now, I'd like to have a German tax advisor review them for being in accordance with our charitable status. ... For the time being, there are two draft contracts I'd like to

Re: [board-discuss] OSCON Expenses

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 14:09 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: I've asked around and it seems I am the only member of the Membership Committee or Board likely to be going to OSCON and/or the Community Leadership Summit in Portland, OR, USA in July. I'm attending at my own expense (well, I am

Re: [board-discuss] travel fund request for project weekend

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 13:47 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: +1 from my side, of course And +1 - but again I really loathe voting over trivial sums :-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe

[board-discuss] Google search / ODF files ...

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jeremy, On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:03 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 11:38 +0200, mike schinagl wrote: there is an option in the advanced Google search (www.google.de/advanced_search) allowing the search of certain filetypes, i.e. .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf etc.. ODF (.odt

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice at OSCON CLS

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jean, On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:12 -0700, Jean Weber wrote: In a talk on Open Source Community Growth as a User Experience Problem, the LibreOffice easy hacks page was used as a good example of doing something right to make it easy for people to join the coding community, feel empowered,

Re: [board-discuss] call now?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:17 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: ... aren't we supposed to have a call now? We did; I guess you can listen to the recording :-) OTOH - we only talked about the conference program committee IIRC. ATB, Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 11:58 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: $ 454 = accommodation in Berlin $1546 = contribution towards airfare Sounds reasonable to me; +1 Look forward to your talk :-) Regards, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer,

Re: [board-discuss] Budget request: EUR 3500 for LibOCon 2012 video / streaming service

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 15:17 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: I'd like to get aforementioned budget approved for paying the wonderful folks from Beuth college for their efforts during the LibreOffice conference (filming and streaming), and their ongoing work on post-processing the video footage.

Re: [board-discuss] Request budget for Berlin Foundation Day 2012

2012-11-22 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 10:49 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: I'd like to request a budget of € 263.90 for booth and travel +1 Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

Re: [board-discuss] Request: approve 523,60 € lawyer fees for drafting a work contract

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 01:57 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: we had hired counsel to come up with a suitable work contract to hire Florian. This has concluded, and the aforementioned fees are due, please approve the not-yet-budgeted amount. +1 Thanks ! Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] POSSCON + LibrePlanet

2012-12-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 12:39 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: I ask the board to approve the trip and a provisional budget of 2,000 euro (estimated to cover all expenses) for this trip. Makes perfect sense: thanks for doing that Italo ! Regards, Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] Reimbursement for Attending Events

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 11:36 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: I ask the board to approve a reimbursement for the above amount of money. +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: BoD call tomorrow

2013-01-22 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:04 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: this is a short reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, at 1600 UTC, our next BoD call takes place. That's the middle of the night for me in Australia I think; so - I'll be sleeping; I hereby nominate as my deputy whomever was

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Ask for additional employement budget

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: year, I'd therefore ask the board to approve € 600.00 on top of the already-approved budget for employment, thus totalling an annual sum of +1. Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer,

Re: [board-discuss] additional FOSDEM budget

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 12:43 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: the board has previously approved [1] 2.000 € for FOSDEM collaterals. Because we would like to opt for higher quality t-shirts, plus produce some stickers in addition, I'd like to ask the board to approve an additional 600 € for

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expenses

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Italo, On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:29 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: Of course, I will incur is some additional expenses for fuel and meals which could unfortunately exceed the approved budget of Euro 2,000. I therefore ask the BoD to approve an additional budget of Euro 500 to cover expenses

Re: [board-discuss] budget for business cards

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:32 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: I'd like the board to approve this sum for the production. +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

[board-discuss] [VOTE] extend Italo's Travel Expense request ...

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Sounds like we should have a formal vote on this: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 17:54 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: 1. Vote on having a budget of 2.500 € in total for your trips to POSSCON, LibrePlanet and FOSSC Oman, 2. thereby revoking decision # 20121220-01 As per this

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] extend Italo's Travel Expense request ...

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:58 +, Michael Meeks wrote: As per this thread, it'd be great to have a decision. My vote is +1 naturally. And of course Florian in parallel started a vote elsewhere ;-) so vote there instead. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me

Re: [board-discuss] travel refund for Italo's trips

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: 1. Having a budget of 2.500 € in total for Italo's trips to POSSCON, LibrePlanet and FOSSC Oman, 2. thereby revoking decision # 20121220-01 [1] +1. Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: formal board meeting for annual report

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 10:27 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I urge all board members to reserve this time for joining the call. In case you cannot attend, please state your deputy 1. publically 2. by name 3. in time. It is possible that I'll be on a plane/train at that time, as

Re: [board-discuss] dialling in via Google Hangouts

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:56 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: those of you who have issues with the phone line, here's another approach that seems to work fairly well - dialling in to the confcall via Google Hangouts:

Re: [board-discuss] dialling in via Google Hangouts

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:53 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: Room for ESC call to do something similar ? Yep - I'd love to migrate us to a google hangout; we should get some quality webcam hardware for everyone to make that easier. Also, just a quick question, are board meetings public? (in

Re: [board-discuss] hiring Christian Lohmaier

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 23:04 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in private, I hereby ask the board to 1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web

Re: [board-discuss] inviting Brazilian community members to Freiburg

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 17:20 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: over the past weeks, the idea has grown to invite valued Brazilian community members to the Freiburg Hackfest and afterwards have them connect with local German hackers, like Eike, Björn and others, to exchange thoughts and

[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat -- Michael Meeks

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 36 years old, affiliated with Collabora. My day job is to try to rapidly grow the economic ecosystem around

[board-discuss] nominating Adam Fyne for the Board of Directors

2013-11-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I would love to nominate Adam Fyne (Adam Co / rattles2013) for the board elections. Adam has been involved in the project since April, and in that time has become a strong contributor both directly to the code, and also indirectly in his key role at CloudOn growing the ecosystem

[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael Meeks, 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, 2014. Signed: Michael Meeks Ich, Michael Meeks, gewähltes [Ersatz-]Vorstandsmitglied

[board-discuss] Nominating deputies ...

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Meeks
I, Michael, Meeks, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls, in the order set forth below: 1. Andreas Mantke 2. Eike Rathke 3. Norbert Thiebaud

Re: [board-discuss] vote on travel policy changes

2014-04-10 Thread Michael Meeks
+1 for both. Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- 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:

Re: [board-discuss] Vote on changed rules of procedure

2014-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 10:30 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: based on an offlist discussion, I hereby propose the board to vote on changing the rules of procedure. +1 - with thanks to Andreas for his work here. ATB, Michael. --

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expense Approval

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:47 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: I will represent the project at the upcoming SFScon in Bolzano, on November 14. This year, we will have a 2 hours long workshop in the afternoon, focused on migrations and certification, in addition to a booth (staffed by local TDF

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expense Approval

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 12:14 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: I was not asking for a vote, but for a simple approval on a public mailing list. Of course, it belongs to the marketing budget, but - being myself an approver - I did not want to handle it privately between myself and Charles.

Re: [VOTE] Re: [board-discuss] Grant request: LibreOffice project dashboard/All about LibreOffice

2015-08-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 08:31 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: I'm still a little confused as to why this is happening through the grant request process instead of the budgeting process - I read the thread thrice and wasn't clear on an answer but...none the less. Ditto; but it's good to get

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Proposal for Budget Process

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 14:12 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I ask the board to vote on this, so we can formalize the process. +1 thanks for that Florian ! Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Preliminary results 2015 Elections TDF Board of Directors

2015-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 11:21 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > The proper results should read: > Directors are the candidates, in this order: > Marina Latini, Michael Meeks This piece matches my pocket calculation too =) and FWIW; I think it's good to have Marina at the top of

[board-discuss] Representation in the board in my absence

2016-02-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi, I, Michael Meeks, elected member of the board of The Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice nominate the following deputies to represent me during board calls, in the order set forth below: 1. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud 2. Deputy Björn Michaelsen 3. Deputy Andreas

Re: [board-discuss] time for next board call

2016-03-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:56 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > the next scheduled board call would be Easter Monday, March 28, which is > a public holiday and a "long weekend" in many countries. ... > How's the board's availability ? Pretty terrible from the previous poll =) Can we not

Re: [board-discuss] Fwd: OSCAL Tirana

2016-03-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 00:32 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > The attached message is still waiting for an answer. In the meantime, I > have booked my travel, and the expense is going to be less than half the > amount originally forecasted. > > I need the approval of the expense from the

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] change of travel policy wrt. kilometers driven

2016-03-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 16:21 +0200, Marina Latini wrote: > > Change our travel policy at > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel#Personal_Cars > > to read > > Vote: Yes +1 Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant

Re: [board-discuss] Harassment and lack of code of conduct

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bubli, On 12/01/17 11:24, Katarina Behrens wrote: > it has been brought to my attention that one of our (female) contributors, > who > is also a TDF member (this is why membership committee is in Cc:) has been > harassed in a private mail by someone who reads development and general user >

Re: [board-discuss] Stepping down from Membership Committee

2017-07-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bubli, On 23/07/17 22:57, Katarina Behrens wrote: > The change I would love to see in TDF and in the community around Libreoffice > is unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future. I tried to change a thing > here or there, but I failed and I feel burned-out from fighting a very lonely >

Re: [board-discuss] Hackfests, the next generation: A Call To Action

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bjoern, TLDR; I think we should try this - not because it is without potential problems (I'll elaborate below), but because encouraging trying new ideas is an important thing that we should be doing =) and quite probably this is another great idea from you. And then of course

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