Re: [tdf-discuss] PDF forms and edit

2010-10-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010, 13:29:28 schrieb Miguel Mayol Tur: As PDF is a open standard, there would be a good idea not to depend of propietary software to make and fill PDFs forms and edit PDF documents. And LIBRE OFFICE SHOULD do that. there are a lot of not proprietary pdf

Re: [tdf-discuss] PDF forms and edit

2010-10-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Marc, *, Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010, 14:07:39 schrieb Marc Paré: (...) Actually, LibO (OpenOffice) has very powerful form creating tools and it follows a recognized ISO document standard (http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1004). It would make sense, to me, to try to

Re: [tdf-discuss] PDF forms and edit

2010-10-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Marc, Bernhard, *, Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010, 14:41:56 schrieb Marc Paré: Le 2010-10-10 08:39, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : (...) I can open PDF files using just the open file command without the need for any extension. Has this extension already been integrated in the sources?

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2011-01-02 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Johannes, *, Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011, 19:30:31 schrieb Johannes A. Bodwing: Hi Leif, Dear Larry, ... I disagree with you of two reasons: 1) LibreOffice is free software. If any developer wants to improve the code - he or she has the freedom to do so. I think this is one very

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2011-01-02 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Johannes, *, Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011, 21:36:20 schrieb Johannes A. Bodwing: Hi Andreas, Hi Johannes, *, (...) But you yourself had to decide first, what you want to contribute to which community (OOo or LO). We need people who are doing the daily work. We need not another mega-

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: Adoption and implementation of the Community Bylaws

2011-01-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi David, *, Am Montag, 10. Januar 2011, 00:25:41 schrieb David Nelson: Hi Andreas, :-) There is currently no legal entity or a legal organisation TDF. Every thing is in the course of formation. Because I know a bit about German law I can assure you that it takes a longer time (not days

Re: [tdf-discuss] Portable Version - Peaceful Coexistence?

2011-01-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Harold, *, Am Montag, 31. Januar 2011, 10:42:46 schrieb Harold Fuchs: Will the new portable version of LO coexist peacefully on the same USB stick as OOo portable? Or must I choose? they should live in peace to each other ;-) But you should think about it, because the last OOo Portable was

[tdf-discuss] Crash with LibreOffice 3.3.2rc1-Impress

2011-03-12 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, I get an crash with LibreOffice 3.3.2rc1in the modul Impress if I create in my presentation a new slide (layout title and field with a listing. I change to the outline view and copy the outline from another presentation (beginning with the listing and ending with the title and the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Crash with LibreOffice 3.3.2rc1-Impress

2011-03-12 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Carlo, *, Am Samstag, 12. März 2011, 11:16:51 schrieb Carlo Strata: (...) I suppose your LibreOffice is the vanilla one (that one, in the linux, x86-64, rpm version, you could download fron www.libreoffice.org). yes. I always try only with vanilla one. Have you tried to uninstall it

Re: [steering-discuss] Membership application numbers

2011-05-04 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Sophie, *, Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011, 18:29:45 schrieb Sophie Gautier: Hi all, Some information on the Membership applications treated until now : - Applications approved: 77 it would be nice to have them on the TDF-website or inside the wiki. What do you think? Regards, Andreas --

[tdf-discuss] Running for a BoD-Seat at the TDF

2011-09-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, I'll announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation Who am I? I'm Andreas Mantke, 52 years old, maried and father of two boys. I live in Duisburg, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. I work for a social security institution called Deutsche

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [steering-discuss] BoD and deputies: vote on fixed times for regular BoD calls

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
that affects many people who have to get up early, but I'm of course open to other opinions here. Can you re-post the Doodle link? Thanks. http://www.doodle.com/rqay5h7syg45by9x#table Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Mantke andreas.man...@documentfoundation.org Board of Directors at The Document

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Jesus, Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012, 14:08:58 schrieb Jesús Corrius: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: (...) I am open for discussion, of course, but I wonder that you seem to have a different opinion now, since the BoD has voted on

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Christian, *, Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2012, 15:28:07 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: Hi Andreas, *, On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: (...) We had a public discussion and decision of the BoD already. If there are no unknown facts or new arguments, we

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Conference Management System

2012-04-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, first excuse me for crossposting, but I want to get more volunteers aware of this topic and involved in it. The follow up discussion should be on the website mailing list. The second LibreOffice conference in Berlin is from time not so far away. I know that the team of the first

[tdf-discuss] Community-Meetings at the LibreOffice Conference (Tuesday 16. Oct. 2012)

2012-09-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, we, the LibreOffice conference organization team, are working currently on the schedule of the conference program. As usual there is a day for Community Meetings, Tuesday, 16. Oct. 2012. To create a schedule for this meetings we need to know which groups need a room for their meeting.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Watermark in PDF Export

2013-02-12 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 12.02.2013 15:53, schrieb CVAlkan: Hi: Is there any way to modify the attributes of the watermark that Writer puts into a pdf that it generates? For instance, can the font/typeface, color, orientation, page-placement, etc. be specified somewhere? I've looked through the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who aproval the extensions

2015-01-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 21.01.2015 um 18:24 schrieb J Eduardo Moreno S: Hi, I was created varios extensions for OpenOffice.org, In this time, only publish the extension and the people can use the extension. Now, I compiled varios extension in only one, and publish in the site extensions.libreoffice.org.

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, instead of the winpenpack project the portableapps project has links to the TDF infrastructure. They have a download link to: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/portable/ I think the downloads from that URL will be counted in the TDF stats. I don't know, if TDF got also

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
12:11 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hello, > > instead of the winpenpack project the portableapps project has links to > the TDF infrastructure. They have a download link to: > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/portable/ > > I think the downloads from tha

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
problem to host it on LibreOffice servers to be > included in the stats. I would be happy to get in touch with them, and I > suppose they would be happy to be considered by TDF (something which has > not happened in the past). > > On 25/03/2019 12:11, Andreas Mantke wrote: >> Hello, >

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 25.03.19 um 13:44 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hello, > > and if you look for the source code of their portable LibreOffice > version (6.2.1), you are directed to > https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-LibreOffice/program_sources/. > And the latest sou

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 25.03.19 um 14:48 schrieb Italo Vignoli: > When in the past it was suggested by several people to get in touch with > them to explore a closer collaboration, this was always refused because > it would have "offended" John Haller (and they were linked only by the > Italian community). >

Re: [tdf-discuss] outdated LibreOffice Portable (MS Windows)

2019-04-06 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 25.03.19 um 16:28 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hello, > > Am 25.03.19 um 14:48 schrieb Italo Vignoli: >> When in the past it was suggested by several people to get in touch with >> them to explore a closer collaboration, this was always refused because >> it

[tdf-discuss] More Attacks On Employees And Inappropriate Behavior Of The Chair (was: [VOTE] Technical Budgeting Procedure)

2023-07-12 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Community, Unfortunately, it seems posts get frequently flagged in the board-discuss forum, where currently also the behavior of some board members is criticized and discussed. I hate this form of limiting discussions and censorship. It's not appropriate to a free software project. Hi

[tdf-discuss] Board elections and a Pledge for LibreOffice

2023-12-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
-Baptiste Faure, from the French community, - Franklin Weng, from the Taiwanese community, - Daniel Rodriguez, from the Argentinian community, - Mike Saunders, from the German community, - myself (Andreas Mantke) from the German community, - Jean-François Nifenecker, from the French community

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: Adoption and implementation of the Community Bylaws

2011-01-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi David, *, Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, 16:12:21 schrieb David Nelson: (...) I do *hope* I am wrong. I hope all of the above is true. For the moment, I have not seen the proof. ;-) Don't *tell* me I'm wrong, *show* me I'm wrong. ;-) I'm a a long time contributor to OOo and now of

Re: [steering-discuss] ODFAuthors live!

2011-01-16 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Sophie, *, Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011, 09:12:54 schrieb sophie: (...) So too early and now too late, seems a difficult timing for me ;-) seemed so, but better to early than too late ;-) Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ##

Re: [steering-discuss] connecting external services to our domain

2011-01-18 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi David, Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2011, 22:04:12 schrieb David Nelson: Hi Florian, :-) Ah! Now I understand why you kept me waiting for 2 weeks for any kind of reply to my request! :-D http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/ODFAuthors-Site-with-workflow-tp228261 7p2282617.html please be

Re: [steering-discuss] connecting external services to our domain

2011-01-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi David, *, I don't know what is your purpose. You sent your submitting to the SC a third time now (if I count right). Why are you doing this. I told you in my last mail that this is not necessary. You pay no attention to the netiquette. What's the reason for your behavior? I'm very

Re: [steering-discuss] paid Doodle account

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, *, Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2011, 12:09:50 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, some of you may have noticed that the Doodle polls for our calls are without advertisings since January. I tested out the Doodle Premium service for one free month. I'd like to keep the ad-freeness,

Re: [steering-discuss] paid Doodle account

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, *, Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2011, 20:27:43 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi, Andreas Mantke wrote on 2011-01-21 20.14: I don't think, we should spent the money on this. What did you think about this tool?: http://gpl.univ-avignon.fr/rdvz/ We can host this on our own resource

Re: [steering-discuss] Membership application numbers

2011-05-05 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Sophie, *, Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011, 19:54:31 schrieb sophie: Hi Andreas, On 04/05/2011 20:28, Andreas Mantke wrote: (...) it would be nice to have them on the TDF-website or inside the wiki. What do you think? Ah, yes, of course :) That it's in its way to be done, just give us some

[steering-discuss] Running for a BoD-Seat at the TDF

2011-09-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, I'll announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation Who am I? I'm Andreas Mantke, 52 years old, maried and father of two boys. I live in Duisburg, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. I work for a social security institution called Deutsche

Re: [steering-discuss] chairmen

2011-10-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, *, Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2011, 19:44:02 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, sorry for spamming you so massively today, but I want to use the free day to get some formal things done for TDF. I assist you in spamming a bit ;-) (...) The statues do not set explicit rules on

[board-discuss] Re: [steering-discuss] Vote for MC elections

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas Mantke
Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2011, 13:27:03 schrieb Caolan McNamara: On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 10:30 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: I call the BoD to vote on the following: == We postpone the MC elections and will have elections next year, so the next MC will be in place by July 1st, 2012.

Re: [board-discuss] poll on regular BoD times

2011-11-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, *, Am Montag, 7. November 2011, 18:33:45 schrieb Michael Meeks: On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 13:14 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: it seems we didn't yet come up with a solution. Everyone voted (thanks for that!), and e.g. Wednesday 1600 UTC looks rather good, with 7 people joining

Re: [board-discuss] Electing a BoD chairperson and it's deputy

2011-12-01 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2011, 21:47:56 schrieb Michael Meeks: On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 17:18 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote: My vote is for Florian Effenberger as Chairman and Thorsten Behrens as Chairman Deputy. +1 :-) Michael. +1 from a Deputy :-) Cheers,

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: BoD call tomorrow

2012-01-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, *, Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012, 13:54:46 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, just a quick reminder: Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 1600 UTC (=1700 German time), we have the next BoD call. Agenda and dial-in details at the usual place in the wiki. are there only one topic: Cebit?

Re: [board-discuss] next BoD call on Wednesday

2012-02-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
, can you stand-in for me? if nothing special happens, I can jump in. I'll be in the call tomorrow and can stand-in for you. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Mantke andreas.man...@documentfoundation.org Deputy of the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation Twitter: @andreasooo -- Unsubscribe

Re: [board-discuss] next BoD call on Wednesday

2012-02-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, *, Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 13:40:22 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, this is just a quick reminder that our next BoD call takes place on Wednesday, 1600 UTC. Dial-in details and the agenda where you can contribute to are available at the usual place:

[board-discuss] AB-Member and ESC-Member on TDF-Website

2012-02-24 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, I looked on the TDF-Website and found out that there is no entry about the member of the AB and of the ESC. Although they are no organs of the TDF (like BoD, MC or Board of Trustees) they are very important for TDF and the development of LibreOffice. I think we should create special

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call, unavailable today

2012-04-04 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Olivier, Am 04.04.2012 11:30, schrieb Olivier Hallot: Hello Due to business metting today I may not be available for the call and therefore I ask one of our deputies to step in, in the following order of their availability: Jesus Corriu Bjoern Michaelsen Andreas Mankte Thanks you

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call on Wednesday

2012-07-23 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, I'm not available for the call this Wednesday. Regards, Andreas Am 23.07.2012 13:19, schrieb Olivier Hallot: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I also have to ask one of our deputies to step in as I will be in a giving a lecture on FOSS event. I'll ask Andreas Mantke

Re: [board-discuss] daylight savings time

2012-10-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Florian, Am 23.10.2012 13:31, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, in many countries, the daylight savings time will end soon. In Germany, in the night to October 28th, clocks will be set one hour back, so the local time will be UTC+1 from then on, instead of UTC+2 like it is now. In

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call on Wednesday

2012-12-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
to the existing ones. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend this time, as I am on the road. I therefore call any of the deputies Andreas Mantke, Björn Michaelsen or Jesús Corrius, in that order, to represent me during the call, and ask Thorsten Behrens to be the session chair. I'm afraid

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: BoD Call on Wednesday

2013-05-13 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 13.05.2013 17:28, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, this is a quick reminder that the next BoD call takes place this Wednesday at 1500 UTC. If you cannot make it, please nominate your deputy in time. The dial-in details as well as an agenda you can add items to is available at

Re: [board-discuss] hiring Christian Lohmaier

2013-06-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 10.06.2013 18:15, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Dear community, in its last private meeting, the board of directors has made a decision I would like to share with you today. We decided to offer Christian Lohmaier a work contract, for a limited period of one year, part-time with 20

Re: [board-discuss] daylight savings and board call time

2013-10-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Am 20.10.2013 19:57, schrieb Italo Vignoli: On 10/20/2013 07:22 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: My preference is moving to 1600 UTC, keeping effective time the same. I agree. +1 Regards, Andreas -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ##

[board-discuss] Running for a Board of Directors Seat at the TDF

2013-11-06 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, I'll run for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation again. I'm Andreas Mantke, now 54 years old, and I live in Duisburg, North-Rhine-Westfalia, Germany. I work in the office of a social security institution called Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland in Düsseldorf and had

Re: [board-discuss] Reminder: BoD call next Wednesday

2013-12-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 09.12.2013 20:27, schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Florian Effenberger wrote: this is a short reminder that our next BoD call is Wednesday, December 11, at 1600 UTC. There is the slight chance I cannot make it (travelling that day), in case that happens, I authorize Andreas and Jesus (in

[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board

2014-01-06 Thread Andreas Mantke
I, Andreas Mantke, elected Deputy Director of the Board of The Document Foundation, hereby accept this position within the Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts The Document Foundation. My term will start February 18, 2014. Signed: Andreas Mantke Ich, Andreas Mantke, gewähltes Ersatz-Vorstandsmitglied

Re: [board-discuss] Resigning from TDF Board of Directors

2015-03-12 Thread Andreas Mantke
a member of the Board of Directors. It is thus my duty, and my honour to ask you, Andreas Mantke, if you accept your promotion to being a full member of Board of Directors of The Document Foundation, effective Sunday, March 8th 2015? I accept the promotion to being a member of the Board of Directors

[board-discuss] Representation in my absence

2015-04-14 Thread Andreas Mantke
I, Andreas Mantke, 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 Eike Rathke 2. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud Regards, Andreas Mantke -- Andreas

Re: [board-discuss] cooperation with Do-FOSS?

2015-07-17 Thread Andreas Mantke
from me. +1 for me too. Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Mantke andreas.man...@documentfoundation.org Twitter: @andreaslibo Skype: andreaslibo The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org

[board-discuss] Running for a Board of Directors Seat at the TDF

2015-11-24 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, I'll run for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation again. I'm Andreas Mantke, now 56 years old, and I live in Duisburg, North-Rhine-Westfalia, Germany. I'm unaffilated. This means I don't work for a company doing business around LibreOffice nor do I earn any money from my

Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

2015-11-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Am 02.11.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: > (...). > > 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary > technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled > board calls? Yes. I already did that in the last nearly four years. I asked my employer for

Re: [board-discuss] Running for a Board of Directors Seat at the TDF

2015-11-29 Thread Andreas Mantke
on the BoD for the last four years and like to run for another two years, because I believe in our way of a stable independent meritocratic (open and transparent) organization for our office software project. Kind regards, Andreas Am 24.11.2015 um 22:16 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hello, > >

Re: [board-discuss] No Candidacy To The Next Board

2017-11-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, all, Am 27.11.2017 um 10:15 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi Andreas, > > On 26/11/17 23:56, Andreas Mantke wrote: >> I have been (deputy) member of the board for about six years now and >> from my personal view it's time to take a break or a change. I have been

[board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-29 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, the elections for the next TDF Board of Directors has been started one and a half week ago. The decision on the list of members that have a vote in this election has been done by the membership committee in its current composition. The announcement of the elections was done by the current

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-29 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Klaus-Jürgen, all, Am 29.10.2017 um 13:02 schrieb K-J LibreOffice: > Hi Andreas, all, > Am 29.10.2017 um 10:29 schrieb Andreas Mantke: >> the elections for the next TDF Board of Directors has been started one >> and a half week ago. The decision on the list of members t

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, all, Am 31.10.2017 um 17:12 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Mantke wrote on 31-10-17 13:44: > >> that's not the topic, I wrote about. I wrote about very close personal >> or economic connections, not the usual friendship etc. > > In business,

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Simon, Cor, all, Am 31.10.2017 um 19:19 schrieb Simon Phipps: > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Andreas Mantke <ma...@gmx.de > <mailto:ma...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > Hi Cor, all, > > Am 31.10.2017 um 17:12 schrieb Cor Nouws: > > Hi And

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, all, Am 31.10.2017 um 20:41 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Mantke wrote on 31-10-17 19:54: (...) > >> I don't think that a good organization/community need to put this into >> rules/statutes, but should have it in their DNA. > > If you thi

Re: [board-discuss] Procedure Of TDF Board Elections

2017-10-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Thorsten, Michael, all, Am 30.10.2017 um 14:34 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: > Hi Michael, Andreas, * > > letting the rest of the discussion stand for the moment - this much: > > Michael Meeks wrote: >> Having said that - in general, it is clearly better for most of the MC >> to serve a

Re: [board-discuss] Plone site & grief

2018-11-16 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 10.11.18 um 11:10 schrieb Bjoern Michaelsen: Hi all, On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: I think this might be a good occasion to ask our CoC volunteers for help (in Cc) - some sort of moderation is perhaps possible? FWIW: I, for one, would

[board-discuss] Plone site & grief

2018-11-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
> way for the project to keep the Plone sites running properly for the > while. > I expect only the way of communication and behavior that I already described in my previous email. > Andreas Mantke wrote: >> There were no real internal discussions with the board about issues. >

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] - Budget Request promoting LibreOffice/ODF at event for Dutch administrations

2018-10-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, it's not obvious, why this (discussion and?) decision had been taken in private and not e.g. on this list. Because of this process in private the proposal (and decission) looks a bit disconnected. It's e.g. not explained who is 'me' in connection with Rob. Kind regards, Andreas > > the

Re: [board-discuss] Preliminary Results for the 2018 Membership Committee election

2018-09-14 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Stephan, all, Am 14.09.18 um 15:51 schrieb Stephan Bergmann: > On 14/09/2018 15:31, Miklos Vajna wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Marina Latini >> wrote: >>> The above preliminary results are in conflict with § 8 IV of our >>> statutes

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of MC role

2018-09-19 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 19. September 2018 11:49:42 MESZ schrieb Florian Effenberger : >Hello Andreas, > >Andreas Mantke wrote on Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:12:27 +0200: > >> it would be great, if the German sentence oft acceptance declaration >would be concordant with the diction in § 12 II S

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-03-18

2019-05-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 7. Mai 2019 10:08:07 MESZ schrieb sophi : >Meeting minutes >Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting for 2019-Q2 filing. > >1. Call to order & Roll Call >The meeting took place on 2019-03-18. >Membership Committee Members present: Jona Azizaj, Dennis Roczek, >Ilmari >Lauhakangas,

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-03-18

2019-05-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
hat K-J  wasn't present in this meeting and > Ilmari yes (if you see the order in the website and the list of > presents in the minutes, indeed, seems that some change happened but > it's just a coincidence). > > Regards > Gustavo > > > > Em ter, 7 de mai de 2019

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2019-07-18

2019-07-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 23.07.19 um 11:56 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > The Document Foundation > Board of Directors Meeting 2019-07-18 > Call Minutes > > Date: 2019-07-18 > Location: Jitsi > > Session chair: Marina Latini > Keeper of the minutes: Florian Effenberger it seemed there were no public board meeting

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-06-18

2019-08-06 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, it seemed the date on the membership website is not in accordance with § 10 paragraph 2 sentence 1 of the statutes. Kind regards, Andreas Am 02.08.19 um 11:08 schrieb sophi: > Meeting minutes > Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting for 2019-Q3 filing. > > 1. Call to order & Roll

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

2019-12-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
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: Paolo Vecchi >> E-mail: pa...@omnis-systems.com and pa...@omniscloud.eu >> Affiliation: 

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

2019-12-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Sam, Am 07.12.19 um 12:29 schrieb Sam Tuke: > Andreas: it'd be worth checking if Paolo is a member of this list first. > > Sam. I'd expect a board candidate on this list. This is the list for the communication from and with the board. It's the list where all decisions were published (and

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

2019-12-07 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, Am 07.12.19 um 11:58 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi Andreas, > > I for one am grateful for all candidates that stand in the > election. I expect each of them to act as individuals in the best > interest of TDF and for all of them to have a shared primary > affiliation to

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

2019-12-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Paolo, Am 07.12.19 um 15:07 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: > Re: [board-discuss] Self-nomination for next Board > > Hi all, > > > sorry for the delay in answering back but I've got notified I've been > mentioned on the mailing list and that reminded me I didn't yet subscribe. > > I'd like to thank Sam

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-09-24

2019-10-15 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 15.10.19 um 16:12 schrieb Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco: > Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting for 2019-Q4 filing. > > 1. Call to order & Roll Call > > The meeting took place on 2019-09-24. > Membership Committee Members present: Jona Azizaj, Gustavo Buzzatti > Pacheco, Dennis

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-09-24

2019-10-15 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, it seemed the date on the membership website (https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/members/) is again not in accordance with § 10 paragraph 2 sentence 1 of the statutes. Kind regards, Andreas Am 15.10.19 um 16:12 schrieb Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco: > Minutes of the Membership

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-09-24

2019-10-16 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Sophie, Am 16.10.19 um 10:26 schrieb sophi: > Hi Andreas, > Le 15/10/2019 à 21:35, Andreas Mantke a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> it seemed the date on the membership website >> (https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/members/) >> is again not in accorda

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee Meeting minutes 2019-09-24

2019-10-16 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello Florian, Am 16.10.19 um 10:33 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hello Andreas, > > Andreas Mantke wrote: > >> if there is no mistake in the board-discuss list mail archive, Ilmari >> accepted the role as a member of the MC on 2019-09-25 at 10.09 AM. Thus >> he

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

2019-11-27 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello Paolo, Am 26.11.19 um 15:53 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: > Self-nomination for next Board (...) > > Full Name: Paolo Vecchi > E-mail: pa...@omnis-systems.com and pa...@omniscloud.eu > Affiliation:  Omnis Systems Ltd and Omnis Cloud Sarl > I want only to ask a short question. I looked on the Omnis

Re: [board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?

2019-11-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, Am 29.11.19 um 10:59 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi Andreas, > > As you know, I'm a fan of you & your work on improving LibreOffice. thank you. I know that. But as you know there were some behaviors from key TDF members which throw me out of the project. I worked only voluntary

[board-discuss] Diversity Is Key?

2019-11-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, there is the view that diversity is key for a successful community, leading body etc.  This counts for open source communities and their (leading) bodies too. I had a look into the applications for the next TDF board and found there the narration 'while our user base is amazingly diverse,

Re: [board-discuss] Representation statement

2020-02-26 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hello, Am 20.02.20 um 15:56 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hello Andreas, > > Andreas Mantke wrote: >> it's your view on the statutes and the reasons for the rule about >> affiliation. I don't share that. > > independent of the reading of the statutes - w

Re: [board-discuss] Representation statement

2020-02-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, Am 20.02.20 um 15:11 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi Andreas, > > On 20/02/2020 13:57, Andreas Mantke wrote: >> Am 20.02.20 um 14:47 schrieb Franklin Weng: >>> I, Franklin Weng, elected member of the Board of Directors of The >>> Document Foundation

Re: [board-discuss] Representation statement

2020-02-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 20.02.20 um 14:47 schrieb Franklin Weng: > I, Franklin Weng, elected member of the Board of Directors of The > Document Foundation, hereby and until further notice, nominate the > following deputies to represent me during board calls and meetings, in > the order set forth below: > >

[board-discuss] Re: Short Résumé (was: Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates)

2020-09-03 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, a short résumé: a) there are 13 candidates for the MC elections and only 8 are able/willing to answer two short questions.     Many thanks to all of this eight candidates to take your time and give your personal view! b) TDF currently has 221 members and none of them asked any question

Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates

2020-09-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 08.09.20 um 14:23 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi, > > Muhammet Kara wrote on 05/09/2020 15:55: >> Hi Andreas & all, >> >> On 8/31/20 9:06 PM, Andreas Mantke wrote: >>> Maybe a look into the second sentence of § 12 is also of interest here. >>>

[board-discuss] Second Short Résumé

2020-09-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, if I draw a resume on the discussion in the thread  'MCC questions' I saw basically only contributions from members that are already core people of the foundation administration bodies or stand / stood as candidates for these bodies. I already mentioned that TDF currently has more than 200

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-11

2020-09-15 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 15.09.20 um 14:24 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > > The Document Foundation > Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-11 > Meeting Minutes > > Date: 2020-09-11 > Location: Jitsi > > Session chair: Franklin Weng > Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht > > In the meeting: Gabriele Ponzo (MC), Cor

Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates

2020-08-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Uwe, all, Am 29.08.20 um 06:39 schrieb Uwe Altmann: > Hi Andreas > > Am 28.08.20 um 08:18 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > > (...) >> b) What is your personal take on a 'cooling down' periode between being >> a member of leading bodies of the foundation, rega

Re: [board-discuss] Re: TDF-Business-Entity

2020-10-05 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Michael, all, Am 02.10.20 um 10:10 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi Andreas, > > On 30/09/2020 09:40, Andreas Mantke wrote: >>>  c) form sub-group to work out and publish business entity proposals >>>     URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3294 >>&g

[board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates

2020-08-28 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, I have two first questions to the candidates: a) regarding the mission of the MC (§ 12 of the statutes) have you already participated in board calls during the last two years as external (non-member)? b) What is your personal take on a 'cooling down' periode between being a member of

Re: Job Description of the MC (was:Re: [board-discuss] self-nominations - election to next TDF's Membership Committee)

2020-08-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, the statutes are here: https://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/statutes/ Regards, Andreas Am 20.08.20 um 12:51 schrieb Andreas Mantke: > Hi,s > > maybe it'd good to have a closer look into the job description of the > Membership Committee (MC), which is publicly availabl

Job Description of the MC (was:Re: [board-discuss] self-nominations - election to next TDF's Membership Committee)

2020-08-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi,s maybe it'd good to have a closer look into the job description of the Membership Committee (MC), which is publicly available on the TDF website: Paragraph 12 of the statutes. Regards, Andreas -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

TDF-Business-Entity (was: Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-25)

2020-09-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 29.09.20 um 14:59 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > The Document Foundation > Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-25 > Meeting Minutes > (...) > >  c) form sub-group to work out and publish business entity proposals >     URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3294 >     Status:

Re: TDF-Business-Entity (was: Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-25)

2020-09-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Am 30.09.20 um 11:01 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: > Hi Andreas, > > thank you for your feedback. > > Before moving to Luxembourg a couple of years ago I had the same feeling > about it but, as written in my proposal, I discovered that few EU > countries didn't like to have Luxembourg as a competitor in

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-11

2020-09-17 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Uwe, Am 16.09.20 um 17:07 schrieb Uwe Altmann: > Hi Andreas > > Am 15.09.20 um 20:17 schrieb Andreas Mantke: >> This gives three members/members representatives with affiliation >> 'Collabora Productivity' during this board call. > Nope. > Following th

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