[board-discuss] In my absence
I, Adam Fyne, 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 Andreas Mantke 2. Deputy Eike Rathke 3. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud Best, Adam
[board-discuss] Nominating deputies ...
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 ie. re-using the STV electoral ranking. And thanks for attending, 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: 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
[board-discuss] Accepting my role
I, Thorsten Behrens, hereby accept my position as Chairman of the Board within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts The Document Foundation. Signed: Thorsten Behrens Ich, Thorsten Behrens, nehme mein Amt als Vorstandsvorsitzender innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts The Document Foundation an. Unterzeichnet: Thorsten Behrens -- Thorsten -- 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
[tdf-discuss] Re: Happy Birthday, TDF!
Florian Effenberger wrote Happy Birthday, Document Foundation! Congratulations from my side, too! It's a pleasure to watch TDF grow and prosper. But with TDF leaving its infancy, and a new board stepping up to continue the success story, maybe it's time to share a thought or two about the future. For me, there's two key points within TDF: First is independence, the way the foundation is set up, the hard-coded mixture rules for TDF's bodies, the democratic process, the donation-only funding (combined with a careful financial planning and only-spend-what-you-have attitude). Especially when I look at the other big non-profit entity aiming at software for end users, Mozilla, I get the strong gut feeling (without doing deeper research) that this independence is pure gold, and needs to be preserved no matter the cost. The second point is transparency, which is key for building the trust necessary to make donation-based funding models work, and therefore is key for TDF's independence, too. I'm not only talking about transparency of the decision-making process here, but also about financial transparency, development transparency, and so forth. And while TDF is already strong at both independence and transparency, it could still be better. So I suggest the following things: 1) Official statement of affiliation by every member of any official body of TDF, if there's none already present. 2) TDF becoming a member of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft by Transparency Deutschland e. V., adhering to its 10-point code of conduct. [1] Having said that, I also think that TDF should broaden its scope of software development to truly free the desktop. In its values, it is stated that TDF commits to eliminate the digital divide in society by giving everyone access to office productivity tools free of charge to enable them to participate as full citizens in the 21st century. Personally, I think that things like a browser, email client, and personal information manager should also be considered as being office productivity tools, and therefore should be offered by TDF in the long run, too. This is even more true when I look at the current market for these kinds of software. I've read many times that the one big thing missing from OOo/LO is an Outlook replacement, which would be a combined email client/PIM thingie. And with Mozilla going into development directions that I call ambiguous at best, the question about which browser to use on Windows could be hard to answer in the not too distant future. So, two years of TDF is surely a time to celebrate, but probably also a time for discussing the course to a future even brighter. All the best, Jens Mildner [1] http://www.transparency.de/Initiative-Transparente-Zivilg.1612.0.html -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Happy-Birthday-TDF-tp4097624p4097906.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: 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/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Happy Birthday, TDF!
2014-02-19 15:07 GMT+01:00 Jens Mildner j...@mildner-web.de: Florian Effenberger wrote Happy Birthday, Document Foundation! Congratulations from my side, too! It's a pleasure to watch TDF grow and prosper. But with TDF leaving its infancy, and a new board stepping up to continue the success story, maybe it's time to share a thought or two about the future. For me, there's two key points within TDF: First is independence, the way the foundation is set up, the hard-coded mixture rules for TDF's bodies, the democratic process, the donation-only funding (combined with a careful financial planning and only-spend-what-you-have attitude). Especially when I look at the other big non-profit entity aiming at software for end users, Mozilla, I get the strong gut feeling (without doing deeper research) that this independence is pure gold, and needs to be preserved no matter the cost. The second point is transparency, which is key for building the trust necessary to make donation-based funding models work, and therefore is key for TDF's independence, too. I'm not only talking about transparency of the decision-making process here, but also about financial transparency, development transparency, and so forth. And while TDF is already strong at both independence and transparency, it could still be better. So I suggest the following things: 1) Official statement of affiliation by every member of any official body of TDF, if there's none already present. 2) TDF becoming a member of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft by Transparency Deutschland e. V., adhering to its 10-point code of conduct. [1] Having said that, I also think that TDF should broaden its scope of software development to truly free the desktop. In its values, it is stated that TDF commits to eliminate the digital divide in society by giving everyone access to office productivity tools free of charge to enable them to participate as full citizens in the 21st century. Personally, I think that things like a browser, email client, and personal information manager should also be considered as being office productivity tools, and therefore should be offered by TDF in the long run, too. This is even more true when I look at the current market for these kinds of software. I've read many times that the one big thing missing from OOo/LO is an Outlook replacement, which would be a combined email client/PIM thingie. And with Mozilla going into development directions that I call ambiguous at best, the question about which browser to use on Windows could be hard to answer in the not too distant future. So, two years of TDF is surely a time to celebrate, but probably also a time for discussing the course to a future even brighter. All the best, Jens Mildner [1] http://www.transparency.de/Initiative-Transparente-Zivilg.1612.0.html Contrary to Jens' point of view as expressed above, I'd like to suggest that, at least for the near future, TDF confines its activities to working to provide «everyone access to office productivity tools free of charge», in accordance with its statutes. This, which entails battling against Microsoft's entrenched quasi-monopoly, is a more than sufficiently daunting task, which will require all the efforts of which we are capable. Email clients, which in an age in which people are continually connected to the internet, are of minor use, are beyond its purview. Those who wish to use one can employ Thunderbird Rather than do many things poorly, let us do one thing well !... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: 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/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Happy Birthday, TDF!
Dear Jens, you are very right about this, it has been decided by the board for a while ago (http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/BoD-tasks-as-of-2012-12-11-td4023703.html). Too many tasks were on the boards desk so it was delayed but certainly not forgotten. I am certain it will happen soon. Actually other German entities in the legal form of a Stiftung consider doing so too and have certainly be advised to: http://www.stiftungen.org/fileadmin/bvds/de/Termine_und_Vernetzung/Foren/Forum_Stiftungskommunikation/Berlin_2012/2012_Stiko_Schinagl_Rechtsrahmen.pdf Cheers Mike Jens Mildner wrote on 2/19/2014 3:07 PM: 2) TDF becoming a member of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft by Transparency Deutschland e. V., adhering to its 10-point code of conduct. [1] -- The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, D-10707 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: 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/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
