Florian, Was there any discussion about accessibility and if so, did anything come out of it?
Quentin. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:45 PM Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > The Document Foundation > Board of Directors Meeting 2020-10-23 > Meeting Minutes > > Date: 2020-10-23 > Location: Jitsi > > Session chair: Lothar Becker > Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht > > In the meeting: > Board - Lothar Becker, Daniel Rodriguez, Emiliano Vavassori, Cor > Nouws, Michael Meeks, Thorsten Behrens (from 13:10 on) > Board Deputies - Paolo Vecchi, Nicolas Christener > Team - Stephan Ficht, Florian Effenberger, Sophie Gautier, Olivier > Hallot, Heiko Tietze (from 13:19 on) > Community - Michael Weghorn > > Representation: Nicolas Christener for Franklin Weng > (See https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ > subject "Representation statements") > > Chairman of the Board is in the meeting. One of the Chairman or Deputy > Chairman is required to be present or represented for having a quorate > call. > > The Board of Directors at time of the call consists of 7 seat holders > without deputies. In order to be quorate, the call needs to have 1/2 of > the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 7 Board of > Directors members are attending the call. > > The board waives all formal statutory requirements, or requirements in > the foundations articles, or other requirements regarding form and > invitation, time limits, and for the topics discussed in this meeting. > > The meeting is quorate and invitation happened in time. From now on, > motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those > remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 4. > > The meeting commences at 13:04 Berlin time. > > Public part > > 1. Q&A: Answering Questions from the community (All, max. 10 min) > Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions > to the board and about TDF. > * Olivier: Discussion about dropping LibreOffice Online from the > foundation. > * Am not in favor of this. LOOL code, documentation, wiki pages > etc. are assets of the foundation. > * As such, foundation is custodian of the content, should neither > erase nor drop existing contents. > * Understands decision is way beyond the board. > * All these assets contain energy of members and constituents of > the foundation. > * Begs to not delete, drop or erase any contents of LibreOffice > Online. > > 2. Discuss: Focussing and prioritizing, sorting goals and action items > for the board in the light of LibO Con meetings (Lothar/Florian, All 20min) > Rationale: Answering questions, discuss situation, suggest further > steps with it, suggestion was: identify 5 most important and fokus > energy/time on them and to bring them first to results, rest on hold > until new weighting (after 6 weeks) > * Lothar: Need to have all items on the lists that are urgent or > important or both. > * Running tenders should not be on the list, it's clear that they > need to be worked on. ODF delta is published, X-ray in evaluation, so is > dev mentor. > * No explicit results expected in the next weeks. > * Nobody hindered to work on any item, but it's in not in top > priority all board and other resources should be invested into that. > * Not doing everything at the same time. > * Organize our resources, have common understanding what's next > and what comes after that. > * First step - what is missing from this list? > > Topics sorted alphabetically: > (Updated during this call, so changed since LibOCon meeting) > > * Accessibility > * Advisory board and cooperation > * Business entity > * App stores > * Commercial activities > * Capital investment > * Communication hints and rules for international audience > * Community bylaws > * Tooling: Community participation, tools for developers > * has to be balanced against cost of change (Thorsten) > * migration done in single steps, e.g. Easy Hacks? (Paolo) > * should be driven by developers and new dev mentor (Thorsten) > * support this (Michael) > * goal is also to get new contributors, some might find current > tooling complicated (Paolo) > * Conflict of interest and tenders > * Diversity and inclusion > * Education, universities and schools > * Events, conferences, LibOCon 2021 and Hackfests, physical and virtual > * LibreOffice Online > * LibreOffice Mobile (Android and iOS) > * Marketing plan and growth and diversification of the ecosystem > * Next next decade manifesto > * Public sector: activities with e.g. Kiel, Dortmund or Treuchtlingen > * Trademark policy, branding, OpenOffice brand > > * Lothar: Any urgent item not on this list? > * Goal is to have a ranking/priorities in the end, to focus resources > and engagement to. > * Nobody hintered to work on other topics, but board's top priority > should go on what's ranked. > * Emiliano: Can we use something similar as for tender ranking? > * Lothar: Can we re-use that, make it 1-15? > * Michael: Agree, don't make it too complicated. > * AI Florian: put items in a spreadsheet by Monday (to factor changes > in), circulate for ranking, to be ranked within the next week. > > Agenda items of Private part > > 3. Inform & Discuss: wealth management for foundation capital stock, > evaluating meeting, proposal from Stephan, further steps > (Stephan/Florian, Lothar, board members 10min) > Reason why in private: confidential information about finance > decision making > Rational: evaluation and further steps > > 4. Last-minute: LibOCon update (Florian) > > 5. 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