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

2011-01-15 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 14.01.2011 09:11, schrieb Florian Effenberger: However, as we had lots of irritating issues with @openoffice.org e-mail addresses, I would like to avoid these mistakes. Well, the real problem at OOo with such adresses was, that anybody could register at the website and then could use

[steering-discuss] Draft for membership process announcement

2011-04-18 Thread André Schnabel
and list at least two contacts who can confirm your contributions. The TDF Membership Committee, Sophie Gautier, Fridrich Strba, André Schnabel, Cor Nouws Links: application form: http://www.documentfoundation.org/application-for-tdf-community-membership/ community bylaws

Re: [steering-discuss] Draft for membership process announcement

2011-04-18 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, ok, I'll send it to the lists in ~1hr ... can someone please post it to the TDF blog (or send me quick instructions how to post there - I somehow lost it). regards, André Am 18.04.2011 19:13, schrieb André Schnabel: To be sent to annou...@documentfoundation.org libreoff

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

2011-04-24 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Cor, Am 23.04.2011 23:57, schrieb Cor Nouws: the next part is more about the process /merits on which members are accepted. Is it that you want to say that on the one hand not each contribution is a ground for membership and on the other hand the MC will look to all possible

Re: [steering-discuss] Vendor string usage in third-party package of LibreOffice

2011-05-12 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 12.05.2011 15:29, schrieb Francois Tigeot: ... So in your case, there might be confusion what the origin of the sofware is - you are the vendor, but you are not TDF. I'm starting to realize the vendor term should be defined: I'm only writing packaging scripts, and many third-parties

Re: [steering-discuss] proposed bylaws changes

2011-06-09 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, +1 for all of the proposed changes. regards, André Am 09.06.2011 10:17, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, as we are moving forward with legally setting up the foundation, and translate/adapt the bylaws into German, we noticed that some tweaks and simplifications are required - in

Re: [steering-discuss] FYI: Apache Incubator is now voting

2011-06-12 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 11.06.2011 16:24, schrieb Norbert Thiebaud: And if it wasn't for all that I would still suggest that bylaws should codify the 'minimum' required to maintain a functioning Foundation in case of discord... It should not be an attempt to codify _everything_ we do. +1 .. if we did

[steering-discuss] Membership Committee wiki page updated

2011-06-14 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, I just updated the infos at the MC wiki page (improve the generic agenda, so that it is showing, what we discuss; link to the minutes page; add mailing list name for how to contact the MC). And in addition to that: I feel sorry to say, that yesterday's meeting had to be adjourned. I

Re: [steering-discuss] next SC call

2011-06-28 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, not sure if I can make it (likely not in time - maybe not at all). maybe Leif can join as my deputy? regards, André Am 26.06.2011 20:56, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi, this is just a short reminder that the next SC call is this Wednesday, June 29th, at 1600 UTC The SC call

[steering-discuss] Meeting Minutes online

2011-07-10 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, minutes from yesterday's meeting are online http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Meeting_minutes please read and review. regards, André -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more:

[steering-discuss] Wiki page with SC decisions

2011-07-11 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, as suggested at the last SC meeting I started a wiki page listing our decisions. I started this at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions if no one objects to the general form, I'd link this page from the SC and bylaws bages in the wiki. regards, André --

[steering-discuss] Request for changes of Membership Committee

2011-07-11 Thread André Schnabel
Dear SC members, as today's MC meeting had to be postponed again we (Sophie and me) like to suggest following changes for the MC: 1. approve all current deputies of the MC plus David Emmerich Jourdain (who volunteered as deputiy but has not yet been approved) as full MC members. (so the MC

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-13 Thread André Schnabel
Hi David, Am 13.07.2011 17:34, schrieb David Nelson: I noted your change to the agenda item: (Italo: I do not like the way this item for discussion has been worded, according to what has been discussed in the mailing list) I was invited to add an agenda item for discussion, and this is the

[steering-discuss] MC meeting minutes

2011-07-13 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, minutes from today's MC meeting are online at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2011-07-13 Unfortunately we missed two applications that have been in review already (completely my fault, leading the meeting). We need to take care about this

[steering-discuss] Call for SC-vote: Using (Windows) Screnshots in TDF materials

2011-07-18 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, in our latest SC-Call we discussed the issue about taking and publishing Screenshots on windows. As we had no quorum in the call, I'd ask every SC member / deputy to vote on the statement we agreed in the call. The statement is: It is noted that several members of the SC acknowledge the

Re: [steering-discuss] Call for SC-vote: Using (Windows) Screnshots in TDF materials

2011-07-18 Thread André Schnabel
So .. casting my vote Am 18.07.2011 19:22, schrieb André Schnabel: The statement is: It is noted that several members of the SC acknowledge the existence of a legal risk to display screenshots of LibreOffice on Windows, but the risk is deemed low, therefore, while screenshots on GNU/Linux

[steering-discuss] Call for SC-vote: Changes in the Membership Committee

2011-07-18 Thread André Schnabel
ask each SC member / deputy to vote on following two items: 1. approve all current deputies of the MC as full MC members. (so the MC will have 5 members in total - Sophie Gautier, Fridrich Strba, André Schnabel, Thorsten Behrens, Cor Nouws ) 2. approve that the MC should decide

Re: [steering-discuss] decision on screenshots

2011-08-08 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Tom, Am 08.08.2011 15:43, schrieb Tom Davies: The fact that one person is ignorant of the risk (or chooses to ignore it) does not mean the rest of the Steering Committee are. Indeed, there was a meeting that came up with the rough draft of the 2 paragraphs prepared by Florian. There is

[steering-discuss] MC meeting minutes 2011-09-19

2011-09-19 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, minutes from today's MC meeting are at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2011-09-19 Please review. In short: - status and next steps for elections - no applications processed (due to application freeze during BoD elections) best regards,

Re: [steering-discuss] SC call on 15th

2011-10-08 Thread André Schnabel
Am 07.10.2011 14:50, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, following our usual schedule, the next SC call would be on Saturday, 15th. However, since most of us are still in Paris there, and will meet in person, I propose we adjourn that call, so the next SC call will be on Wednesday, 19th.

Re: [steering-discuss] Proposal: Optional local NGO donation links on download and extension pages

2011-10-14 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Thorsten, * Am 22.09.2011 10:28, schrieb Thorsten Behrens: ... A local, native-lang NGO, that is in good standing with TDF, and fulfills the following prerequisites * has at least three NGO members, that are accepted TDF members at the same time * is an non-profit organisation

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [steering-discuss] Optional local NGO donation links on download and extension pages

2011-10-19 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 19.10.2011 19:24, schrieb Christian Lohmaier: this proposal is now recorded as approved by the SC at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions So - all we need is someone to implement this :) Is there someone at the website team able to take care about this? So the

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

2011-10-30 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 30.10.2011 17:09, schrieb Norbert Thiebaud: Maybe we can do with the current MC as 'initially designated' for the first 6 month of the foundation and organize a MC election then, since it would be a good idea to have BoD election and MC election somewhat separated to avoid

[board-discuss] New members

2011-11-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi all, The Membership commitee started again to process membership applications. So our new members are: (already approved on 2011-10-31) - Kevin Hunter (cotinous code contribution, promoting LibreOffice) - Tollef Fog Heen (our bugzilla SysAdmin) - Peter Szakal (active promotion of LibreOffice

[board-discuss] New foundation web pages published

2011-11-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, as noticed before, I published some new pages at the foundation website: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/ Information is not final, as we still are in (but close to the end of) the process of establishing the legal foundation. If you have requests (or obligations) for

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

2011-11-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 16.11.2011 22:16, schrieb klaus-jürgen weghorn ol: The page is broken in ie 9.0 win7 64bit. In FF and Chrome the page is ok. I'm ccing you to attach a screenshot. I have not the rights to change it for myself. Well - I see the problem in your screenshot, but the page displays fine

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

2011-11-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 16.11.2011 21:17, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi, André Schnabel wrote on 2011-11-16 21:12: I'd rather put these information only after the rules are legally safe (means when the statutes have been accepted by the authorities). I know, the current content of the pages is just

[board-discuss] New members

2012-01-09 Thread André Schnabel
Hi all, back from the end of the year vacations, the MC started to process membership applications. So our new members are: - Fa Conti ( user support and contributing to user documentation in Brazil) - Rui Ogawa (contributions to brazilain magazine and proting LibreOffice in sozial

Re: [board-discuss] Resignation from the Membership Committee

2012-07-22 Thread André Schnabel
) members of the MC and also thanks to the Board members for all the support. (Not to forget our trustees, for the contributions to LibreOffice). best regards, André Schnabel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http