Re: [board-discuss] Information about successful resolving of a VAT audit’s outcome

2020-12-02 Thread Sam Tuke
in countries with more straightfoward tax laws. Sam. On 02/12/2020 17:36, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Dear members, dear community, > > this e-mail is to inform you about the successful resolving of a VAT > audit’s outcome, and a successful recovering of the losses incurred. >

Re: [board-discuss] FLOSS software money ecosystem, in general [was Personal: and software freedom.]

2020-11-25 Thread Sam Tuke
keholders, eg via a few telephone calls, if suitable SMEs can first easily be identified. Sam. OpenPGP_0xD5B47522D8FB6105.asc Description: application/pgp-keys OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread Sam Tuke
e-by-case could be a useful exercise, but I'm frustrated when the problems and goals interchange and merge. Thanks, Sam. 1. Disclosure: I worked in the aforementioned marketing team as some of you know, and experienced many challenges marketing LO products and services in that role signa

Re: [board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan

2020-07-02 Thread Sam Tuke
I would have shared several more if they had a hope of having a positive effect. But they don't, so they would merely constitute more hot air. > You had some good ideas around KPIs AFAIR, which I imagine will turn > up in the next iteration; but I'm personally eager for more. Thank you for your encouragement! Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan

2020-07-02 Thread Sam Tuke
ing. > However, in relation to the latter, language should not be a barrier > for anyone. We are not all native English speakers in fact and it is > important to stress that TDF has usual channels of communication to > keep up with the news or participate. Agreed. Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan

2020-07-02 Thread Sam Tuke
t of the marketing plan under discussion, and future plans like it. And so I shall continue pushing for that, and not view the pursuit of other reforms in as an excuse for desisting. Governance is hard; I hope this is helping. Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[board-discuss] Involvement of the board in the Marketing Plan

2020-06-26 Thread Sam Tuke
ce projects, additional means of cooperating with the team could no doubt be found. Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Draft Marketing Plan 2020-2025

2020-06-26 Thread Sam Tuke
FYI this link currently gives a "white screen of death" (eg shows nothing): > The draft presentation is available online at the following address: > https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/y7SXTdamdB28GGG Sam.

Re: [board-discuss] UPDATED Draft Marketing Plan 2020-2025

2020-06-18 Thread Sam Tuke
final marketing plan for the next five years" -- it's a huge win that we will have a plan like this going forward, and I recommend that it is updated at intervals within the 5 year time frame to keep it in line with market developments. Hope that helps, Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] LOOL user experience

2020-05-23 Thread Sam Tuke
esfully install software? - When was the last time you hired professional help to setup self-hosted software? This approach is common in US product development research. Sam. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-04-24

2020-05-15 Thread Sam Tuke
Florian, Lothar: that's encouraging progress - thanks for highlighting  Sam. On 14 May 2020 16:39:45 CEST, "Lothar K. Becker" wrote: >Thanks Sam, Uwe, Florian, >indeed, as Florian said, this process was bespoken exactly these days, >no need to be ashamed. So we clarifi

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-04-24

2020-05-14 Thread Sam Tuke
inexpensive process changes be made to enable that? Thanks, Sam. On 14 May 2020 13:55:11 GMT+02:00, Uwe Altmann wrote: >Hi > >Am 13.05.20 um 11:54 schrieb Stephan Ficht: >> The meeting commences at 13:05 >> ... >> ends 13:09 Berlin time. > >...and the minu

Re: [board-discuss] Preliminary Results of 2019 Elections for next TDF Board of Directors

2019-12-13 Thread Sam Tuke
Congratulations to the newly announced Board! And thank you to Gabriele for efficient operation, as usual, thus far. Sam. On 13 December 2019 15:54:04 EET, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: > Dear members, > >This is the announcement of the preliminary results of the voting for >the

Re: [board-discuss] Self-nomination for next Board

2019-12-07 Thread Sam Tuke
Andreas: it'd be worth checking if Paolo is a member of this list first. Sam. On Sat, 7 Dec, 2019 at 10:15, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi, Am 27.11.19 um 18:42 schrieb Andreas Mantke: Hello Paolo, Am 26.11.19 um 15:53 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: Self-nomination for next Board (...) Full Name

Re: [board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?

2019-12-02 Thread Sam Tuke
in future. If such changes are impossible, then those ideas could be explored by the next board. Thoughts from other Board members or Trustees? This might be the most direct stimulus to this subject for another two years. Thanks, Sam. On Sat, 30 Nov, 2019 at 15:14, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Hi

Re: [board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?

2019-11-29 Thread Sam Tuke
TDF member and supported the TDF Marketing Team as best I could. I believe my experience marketing LibreOffice, both professionally and voluntarily, would be valuable to the Board. Happy to answer other questions in this vein which you or others may have. Sam. On 28 November 2019 20:45:35

[board-discuss] Candidacy for the Board of Directors: Sam Tuke

2019-11-27 Thread Sam Tuke
with an MBA as Entrepreneurial scholar at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. Thanks! Sam.

Re: [board-discuss] creation of The Document Collective (TDC)

2019-09-18 Thread Sam Tuke
permanent 'letterbox company' by this definition, but there's nothing problematic about that (at least not in the UK). Sam. > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: > board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscrib

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-15 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: May I suggest we call time[1] on this discussion please? +1 S. [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Time%20Gentlemen%20Please - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h

Re: [tdf-discuss] Triple licensing?

2011-06-15 Thread Sam Ruby
(within their ability to do so) to distribute this Work. Thanks, Sigrid - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www

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

2011-06-12 Thread Sam Ruby
/msg29185.html A full detail of the results of the vote will posted in about 27 hours. André - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Interesting observation wrt donations

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
, for the ongoing support! EXCELLENT! - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list

[steering-discuss] Re: TDF/LO, what is the art of the possible?

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
and consolidate there, choose a name for the product ...) The ASF is not a consortium. There is no mechanism for a foundation to participate as an entity, only individuals. I agree that naming is an important discussion. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
. Ever. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 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

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
to free yourself of constraints made by historical choices. AGPLv3 and MPL are both possibilities, as well as a number of others Ian Lynch described the best case here: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg06533.html - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

Re: RE : Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 4 Jun 2011, at 19:06, Sam Ruby wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: I should think there is probably broader commercial or legal reason for Oracle to hold on to the copyright

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Ruby
/msg06542.html I will also note that these options are not mutually exclusive. There could be a small core of close cooperation and a large amount of code which could be the basis for the relicensing aspirations that I have heard expressed numereous times on this list. S. - Sam Ruby

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
there is much work that would need to be done. It will involve getting the consent of those that participate in this foundation and LibreOffice to relicense their work. It won't be easy, but I will be a part of making it happen. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h

Re: [steering-discuss] Topics on this list

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
, and as someone who is very interested in licensing discussions, can I ask for recommendations as to where discussions as to licensing should go? Thank you Volker - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
On 06/04/2011 08:34 AM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Sam Rubyru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Let me start with a request. If we are going to have a productive discussion, it would be best if it were done using respectful terms. If, however, as described below

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Hello! ... and lurking :-)

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
On 06/04/2011 09:40 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Sam, (emptying interesting bits of discussion for clarity). I think it goes without saying that everybody should be respectful to each other. Thanks! And I appreciate both the content and tone of this entire message. Let me try

Re: [steering-discuss] Topics on this list

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
list for discussions. Just in case, here are the details: OK, I'm now subscribed there. Sorry for the noise/confusion. - Sam Ruby disc...@documentfoundation.org Subscription: discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org Digest subscription: discuss+subscribe-dig...@documentfoundation.org Archives

Re: RE : Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
over time as people make contributions based on the terms specified in the Individual Contributor License Agreement and in the Apache License, Version 2.0 itself. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: RE : Re: RE: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 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

[steering-discuss] Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
their choice in licenses. However I will state that in cases where widespread use of the code is vital for advancing the cause of free software that the Apache License, Version 2.0 is an appropriate choice: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
be filtered by language. They can also be sorted by number of replies by clicking on the Replies column header. The same goes for the forum itself, you can sort the whole list by clicking on Replies. Please let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks! Sincerely, Sam @ http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
Sam, Not Harold but have a question, is there a way to mark spam? Need to nip it in the bud. Andy Very true. I've been manually deleting it so far, but we need a collaborative method. I'm not sure if I should use a heuristic spam filter, or allow all users to flag as spam and have

[tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
in the same way. 4. E-mail notifications and bookmarked (watched) posts are enabled. 5. Attachments are enabled. 6. WYSIWYG post editor is enabled. 7. Private messaging is enabled. 8. openID logins are enabled. That's about all. Regards, Sam @ http://LibreOfficeForum.org -- Unsubscribe

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-25 Thread Sam
language subdomain. We're currently supporting English, Spanish, and German on equal footing with the same categories across the board, and hopefully more languages to come. I'm still open to suggestions if I can make LibreOfficeForum more useful to anyone. Best regards, Sam @ http

Re: Welcome to the community ( was Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning )

2010-10-07 Thread Sam
to deal with all these needs of so many people. Take care, Sam Hi Sam, Not sure anyone has said this, so I will: Welcome to our community. A couple of quick thoughts: It gets a bit raucous at times. There are lots of things needing doing right now. Somewhere in the conversation about

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning

2010-10-06 Thread Sam
to help out and translate the forum category names, I can quickly add any other language with little effort. Regards, Sam @ http://libreofficeforum.org -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived