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 Florian Effenberger
Hi, 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 an updated budget (which you can already retrieve via the intranet). Florian

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 an

Re: [board-discuss] buying a new server

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Michael Meeks wrote on 2012-03-21 11:39: Wow - well, it is entirely possible that ByteMark may donate some hardware for our mirror service in return for some (tasteful discrete) mention / linkage. Dan would be the guy there. that sounds indeed interesting. ;-) What

[board-discuss] daylight saving time

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, at least in Germany, and I suppose in many other European countries, the last Sunday in March marks the switch into daylight saving time (summer time). I propose to leave the BoD calls at 1600 UTC, which means that: - Today's call will be at 1700 CET (=UTC+1), as usual. -

[board-discuss] PayPal account access

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I have set-up TDF's own PayPal account in the meantime. Via their web interface, I can grant a PayPal account access to individuals. Since this does not involve the same heavy paperwork as with a regular bank account, and PayPal is available in English language, there's no need have

[board-discuss] Berlin thank you letter on its way

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this is just to let you know that we have drafted and sent a thank you letter to the Berlin authorities. It will be signed by Thorsten, myself, and Thomas Krumbein. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49

[tdf-discuss] Going to LibrePlanet? See you there :)

2012-03-21 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'll be at LibrePlanet this coming weekend with a few fellow free software advocates from Quebec province (Canada): http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LPQC2012#LibrePlanet_2012_-_d.C3.A9l.C3.A9gation_qu.C3.A9becoise LibrePlanet is the annual conference

[board-discuss] tax update

2012-03-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, TDF has now received their tax number from the tax department. In addition, and more important, we have also received the preliminary confirmation of our public benefit. This is important to issue donation confirmations, and in order to not have to pay taxes on incoming donations.