On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 12:19 +0100, Marina Latini wrote: > 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary > technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled > board calls?
Sure. > 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main > items and actions you will volunteer to oversee or that will be > assigned to you by the board? Sure. > 3. What is your willingness to delegate decisions, especially in lack > of time? I'm happy to delegate. > 4. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money > be spent, besides our fixed costs? I'm particularly keen on funding for elements on the ESC suggested tenders: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021 and similar where there isn't currently sufficient existing activity. > 5. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both > technical and non-technical? Sure, though we should be sure we also retain what we have. > 6. What actions do you suggest to increase the engagement and > participation of volunteers from local communities around the world > in project's activities? I think obviously covid has seriously hindered the ability to host in- person conferences and regional meetups so it's difficult to maintain energy without that regular face to face boost. Hopefully in the coming year circumstances improve to allow those to return. > 7. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice > project or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its > influence and promoting and defending Free Software and Digital > Freedom? wrt to promotion and defense, I'd like The foundation to also consider risks to the other projects that LibreOffice depends on; spell checking and hyphenation engines, spellchecking and hyphenation dictionaries, document liberation project filters, specialized spreadsheet external dependencies, cmis libraries and existence of fonts that are metrically equivalent to important competitors. > If yes, do you have ideas on what should be done about this? I'd like to see our dependencies recognized and categorized into what risks they pose if they were to go dark. Perhaps there is potential to more effectively cooperate with Mozilla Foundation where there is some overlap on some of these technologies. > 8. What's your idea to let TDF membership become more appealing? > Currently, the only difference from being Community member and TDF > member is the possibility to vote and be voted for TDF's governance, > and it's fine, but can you imagine anything to encourage more > Community members to become also part of TDF? I was unaware there was a gulf between the numbers of community members and actual TDF members. I'd be interesting in knowing the numbers and if there are identifiable subgroups of community members that feel it's undesirable, unnecessary or pointless to be TDF members. > 9. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of > directors, given that this position does not give you any specific > functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation > projects? I'd hope to act as a bridge to the development community, not just on LibreOffice itself, but as a sometimes contributor to a wider set of related projects. > 10. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? Vulnerability to the loss of one or more of the larger employers of developers that contribute to LibreOffice. > What is its biggest opportunity? LibreOffice is an established project and there is considerable good will held towards it and the foundation. > 11. If they will occur, how do you think to handle conflicts within > the board? I'm reasonably confident I can remain even handed if a problem arises. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
