Re: [board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF BoD web meeting on Friday, June 7th at 1400 Berlin time

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Unfortunately I cannot make it, since I have a class.
Best Regards,
--Osvaldo

Il giorno gio 6 giu 2019 alle ore 22:18 Marina Latini <
mar...@documentfoundation.org> ha scritto:

> Dear Community,
>
> the board will meet again
>
>  on Friday, June 7th at 1400 Berlin time
>
> We'll meet using our own Jitsi instance at
>  https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard
> or at
>  https://meet.jit.si/TDFBoard **ONLY** as fallback.
>
>
> 
> Public Part
>
> 1. Info: Board meetings and agenda
> 2. Discuss: new Certification Category discussion
> 3. Discuss: marketing strategy
> 
>
> If you have something to discuss with the board, please, reply to this
> message and join us during the meeting.
>
> ATB,
> Marina
>
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Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Host the ODF Toolkit project at TDF

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,
 I support this great initiative.
--Osvaldo

Il giorno ven 30 nov 2018, 21:25 Marina Latini <
marina.lat...@libreoffice.org> ha scritto:

> Hi all,
>
> Il 30/11/18 18:03, Thorsten Behrens ha scritto:
> > Dear board,
> >
> > as the discussion seems to have calmed down, and also folks over at
> > Apache seem to be supportive - let me call a vote:
> >
> > * TDF to formally offer the ASF to take over the ODF Toolkit project
> > * by copying the existing github repo (minus perhaps the simple API)
> > * taking the existing markdown documentation & website, and on a
> best-effort
> >   basis either importing that into MediaWiki, or keeping a static HTML
> >   copy available
> > * offer to take over ownership of the odftoolkit.org domain
> >
> > Vote is open for the usual 72h.
>
> I approve the proposal.
>
> ATB,
> Marina
>
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>

[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

I resent my acceptance statement (since it appered unclear in the previous
message):

"
I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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, 2018.

Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi

Ich, Osvaldo Gervasi, gewähltes Ersatz-Vorstandsmitglied der The Document
Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The
Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2018.

Unterzeichnet: Osvaldo Gervasi
"
Regards,
--Osvaldo

2017-12-21 7:36 GMT+01:00 Osvaldo Gervasi <osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com>:

> Thanks a lot Gabriele for managing so nicely this duty :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Osvaldo
>
> 2017-12-20 23:07 GMT+01:00 Gabriele Ponzo <gabriele.ponzo@
> documentfoundation.org>:
>
>> Dear Osvaldo,
>>
>> Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate with you
>> for your election as member of the Board.
>> Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the Board
>> by answering to this message with a "Reply all".
>>
>> I wish you a Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year!
>> Kindest regards,
>> ---
>> Gabriele Ponzo, Chairman of the Membership Committee
>>
>>
>> "
>> I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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, 2018.
>>
>> Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi
>>
>> Ich, Osvaldo Gervasi, gewähltes Ersatz-Vorstandsmitglied der The Document
>> Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The
>> Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2018.
>>
>> Unterzeichnet: Osvaldo Gervasi
>> "
>>
>
>

[board-discuss] Re: Acceptance of BoD role

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Thanks a lot Gabriele for managing so nicely this duty :-)

Cheers,

--Osvaldo

2017-12-20 23:07 GMT+01:00 Gabriele Ponzo <
gabriele.po...@documentfoundation.org>:

> Dear Osvaldo,
>
> Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate with you for
> your election as member of the Board.
> Then I kindly invite you to officially accept your position in the Board
> by answering to this message with a "Reply all".
>
> I wish you a Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year!
> Kindest regards,
> ---
> Gabriele Ponzo, Chairman of the Membership Committee
>
>
> "
> I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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, 2018.
>
> Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi
>
> Ich, Osvaldo Gervasi, gewähltes Ersatz-Vorstandsmitglied der The Document
> Foundation, nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The
> Document Foundation" an. Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2018.
>
> Unterzeichnet: Osvaldo Gervasi
> "
>

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Osvaldo Gervasi

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,

with the present message I want to express my wish to participate in the
elections for the next BoD

*Who am I*

Osvaldo Gervasi, 60 years, married, 1 daughter (28) and 2 sons (26,17).

Associate Professor (Information Processing Systems) at Perugia
University, Italy.

Presently Director at TDF and member of the LibreOffice Documentation Team.

From 2007 to 2013 President of the Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) of
Regione Umbria, as such promoter of the LibreUmbria project.

Member of TDF since 2013, Migration and Trainer Certified Professional.


Fan of LibreOffice since the beginning of the Project (before fan of
OpenOffice,
which I promoted in particular since 2007) and of FLOSS in General.

Member of the Team of LibreDifesa project.


*Why I apply for the new BoD seat:*

**

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director,
to have the chance to further contribute to the project.

I want to promote LibreOffice among University students, in particular
Engineers and Computer
Scientists in order to let them approach the development of such a great
software with the moral
incentive of TDF, removing the barriers that they may encounter and
facilitating their work.

I would also stimulate students and teachers to select, for the Bachelor
and Master Thesis,
a task related to LibreOffice development, with a special attention to
CODE and LibreOffice On Line.

In fact,I thinkwe have toincreasethe number of developers.

I think that is necessary to stimulate and promote donations.

Furthermore, I think that it is necessary to morally support local
communities in promoting LibreOffice
and Open Formats, particularly among young generations


Full name: Osvaldo Gervasi

Emails: ogerv...@libreoffice.org <mailto:ogerv...@libreoffice.org>,
osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com <mailto:osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com>

Affiliation: The University of Perugia, Italy


*My official Candidacy Statement:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director, to have the
chance to further contribute to the project. In particular I want to
promote LibreOffice among University students,
in particular Engineers and Computer Scientists in order to let them
approach the development of such a great
software with the help of TDF, removing the barriers that they may
encounter and facilitating their work.


If you have any question, please feel free to contact me (mobile phone:
+39 3485109938)

-- 
Osvaldo Gervasi
Director, The Document Foundation
Dip. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia (Italy)
skype: osvaldo.gervasi
hangout: osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com 

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Osvaldo Gervasi

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,

with the present message I want to express my wish to participate in the
elections for the next BoD

*Who am I*

Osvaldo Gervasi, 60 years, married, 1 daughter (28) and 2 sons (26,17).
Associate Professor (Information Processing Systems) at Perugia University,
Italy.

Presently Director at TDF and member of the LibreOffice Documentation Team.

>From 2007 to 2013 President of the Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) of
Regione Umbria, as such promoter of the LibreUmbria project.

Member of TDF since 2013, Migration and Trainer Certified Professional.

Fan of LibreOffice since the beginning of the Project (before fan of
OpenOffice,
which I promoted in particular since 2007) and of FLOSS in General.

Member of the Team of LibreDifesa project.


*Why I apply for the new BoD seat:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director,
to have the chance to further contribute to the project.

I want to promote LibreOffice among University students, in particular
Engineers and Computer
Scientists in order to let them approach the development of such a great
software with the moral
incentive of TDF, removing the barriers that they may encounter and
facilitating their work.

I would also stimulate students and teachers to select, for the Bachelor
and Master Thesis,
a task related to LibreOffice development, with a special attention to CODE
and LibreOffice On Line.
In fact, I think we have to increase the number of developers.

I think that is necessary to stimulate and promote donations.

Furthermore, I think that it is necessary to morally support local
communities in promoting LibreOffice
and Open Formats, particularly among young generations


Full name: Osvaldo Gervasi

Emails: ogerv...@libreoffice.org, osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com

Affiliation: The University of Perugia, Italy


*My official Candidacy Statement:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director, to have the
chance to further contribute to the project. In particular I want to
promote LibreOffice among University students,
in particular Engineers and Computer Scientists in order to let them
approach the development of such a great
software with the help of TDF, removing the barriers that they may
encounter and facilitating their work.


If you have any question, please feel free to contact me (mobile phone: +39
3485109938)

-- 
Osvaldo Gervasi
Director, The Document Foundation
Dip. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia (Italy)

Mobile: +393485109938
hangout: osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com

Re: [board-discuss] 2017-09-17 14:30 UTC: HackfestTNG, next call

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi Bjoern,
  I hope to attend the meeting!
Kind Regards,
--Osvaldo

2017-09-05 22:24 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Michaelsen <
bjoern.michael...@libreoffice.org>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:26:47AM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > This is date & time:
> >
> >  - Sunday September 3rd, 2017 16:30 CEST/Berlin time (14:30 UTC)
> >https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?
> day=2=9=2017=37=1800
> >  - Dial-in worldwide as per https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/
> Website/Talkyoo
> >Room number to type after dial in: 21 24 86 #
> >
> > Please join. ;)
>
> thanks for everyone participating. We will repeat the call same time, 14
> days
> later:
>
>  - Sunday, September 17th, 2017 16:30 CEST Berlin time (14:30 UTC)
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
>
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Re: [board-discuss] Stepping down from Membership Committee

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear Katarina,
  I was extremely saddened by your message and I think TDF is losing
one of the most significant and representative figures. If there is
something I can do, please feel free to contact me in private.
--Osvaldo

2017-07-25 9:50 GMT+02:00 Eike Rathke :

> Hi Bubli,
>
> On Sunday, 2017-07-23 23:57:30 +0200, Katarina Behrens wrote:
>
> > [... burned-out ...]
>
> Sad to hear.
>
> If there's something we, the community, TDF and board could had done
> better (I'm sure there is) or that specifically upset you I'd like to
> know (in private).
>
>   Eike
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Re: [board-discuss] Travel Request

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Approved

2017-05-22 17:06 GMT+02:00 Italo Vignoli :

> I will fly to Tirana in early June (9 to 12 of June) for a two day
> workshop, to go through the migration and the training protocols with
> the local team, and train them on LibreOffice and ODF. I will also try
> to understand if there are people willing to start contributing on the
> source code, to provide local support.
>
> Maximum total cost is around 300 Euro (200 Euro flight + 100 Euro
> lodging). I kindly ask other budget approvers to express their opinion
> (as I abstain).
>
> Best, Italo
>
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[board-discuss] Personal news

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear friends,
 Greetings from Malta. I was coming for a Conference on Sath and in the
night i had an illness, similar to an earth attack with one of the markers
10 times out of range. Today I'll leave the hospital. No serious
consequences found. I'll continue the tests at home. I'll return home with
my wife next Sath.
I'll attend the call next Mon.
All the Best,
--Osvaldo

Re: [board-discuss] Harassment and lack of code of conduct

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear Bubli,
 thanks so much for you message.
I totally agree with you and I think TDF needs a code of conduct and the
public statement on how to deal similar incidents.

Kind Regards,
--Osvaldo

2017-01-12 12:24 GMT+01:00 Katarina Behrens :

> Hello world & BoD,
>
> it has been brought to my attention that one of our (female) contributors,
> who
> is also a TDF member (this is why membership committee is in Cc:) has been
> harassed in a private mail by someone who reads development and general
> user
> mailing list. I have the details, mail addresses etc. and can provide them
> via
> private channel, for obvious reasons I'm not doing that here.
>
> This is quite a strong incentive for me to bring up the topic that is
> perceived as controversial by many, namely (the lack of) code of conduct in
> the community around TDF and (the absence of) action plan, as for what to
> do,
> when bad things happen.
>
> The most frequent (and in fact the only) argument I hear when mentioning
> code
> of conduct, or the fact that TDF has no code of conduct to be precise, is
> "but
> but but, we're such a bunch of nice guys, nothing bad has ever happened
> here,
> nobody has ever been harassed, so why bother, why restrict freedom of
> speech
> preemptively etc."
>
> Let me state very clearly that I don't buy that argument. Just because
> nothing
> bad has ever happened to you/people around you/people around people around
> you/..., just because nobody ever went public with what has happened to
> them,
> we simply can't assume that nothing bad has ever happened at all. Case in
> point, the above incident is at least 5 months old and she only decided to
> come out of the closet *now*.
>
> At the very least, in the absence of "real" code of conduct, a clear and
> concise public statement (in what particular form, I don't quite care)
> should
> be made by TDF that such behaviour ( = harassment, stalking, etc.) is not
> going to be tolerated and the offenders are not going to get away with it.
>
> Related to that, there is no plan of action (or not one that I'd know of)
> how
> to deal with incidents and what steps to take (on mailing lists, IRC,
> social
> networks etc.) when things go wrong. Sure, it's perfectly clear to me that
> those plans don't work most of the time and every case has to be dealt with
> individually (sometimes e.g. hangout featuring both affected parties and a
> mediator is a good solution, sometimes it's the worst thing you can
> possibly
> think of), ...
>
> But again, some public statement by TDF that incidents are going to be
> dealt
> with, we're prepared to act and people are going to be helped when needed
> should be made. It'd make people feel more safe.
>
> I volunteer to be a contact person for those cases (in fact, as you can
> see, I
> already am)
>
> Comments, opinions?
>
> Bub.oO
>
>
>
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[board-discuss] Happy New Year

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear Friends,
 I wish you and your families a prosperous and successful New Year!!!

Re: [board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board phone meeting on Monday, December 5, at 1700 Berlin time

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,
 As already announced I cannot attend today, so my delegation statement
applies. :)

Best Regards,

2016-12-05 10:35 GMT+01:00 Florian Effenberger <
flo...@documentfoundation.org>:

> Hello,
>
> find below the public agenda for our
>
> TDF board phone meeting
> on Monday, December 5, at 1700 Berlin time
> (note that Berlin is on UTC+1 now)
>
> Dial-in:
> ==
> Dial-in numbers are at:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Talkyoo
>
> We'll meet in the
> Public room: 53 71 38
> ==
>
>
> Public agenda:
> ==
> 1. Discuss: List of priorities (Florian)
>
> Discussion about the list of priorities. Parts of that possibly in private
> call.
>
> 2. Discuss: Budget 2017 (Norbert and Florian)
>
> Discussion about our 2017 budget. Parts of that possibly in private call.
> ==
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing you later,
> Florian
>
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Re: [board-discuss] [DISCUSS] change of travel policy wrt. kilometers driven

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Il 03/24/2016 01:05 AM, Norbert Thiebaud ha scritto:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Thorsten Behrens
>  wrote:
>
>> Perhaps even a bit more explicit: "When cheaper public transportation
>> is available, it should be preferred. Transporting event materials or
>> excessive transfer times might be reasons for exemption. If in any
>> doubt, please get confirmation before travel."
> Getting confirmation _before_ travel should be the rule not the
> exception, to get travel assistance funds.
>
> Norbert
>
I agree with Norbert.
--Osvaldo


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Re: [board-discuss] OSCAL Tirana

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Great!
Well done, Italo!



Il 02/29/2016 10:11 AM, Italo Vignoli ha scritto:

I have proposed a speech at OSCAL Tirana (May 14/15), which has been
accepted. Travel expenses will be around 500 euro (flight plus hotel). I
ask for approval of the expense from the marketing/community budget.

I will talk about migrations to LibreOffice, focusing on the Italian
Defence project.



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Via Vanvitelli, 1
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Re: [board-discuss] Representation in the board in my absence

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

I would like to adopt a different order of the Deputies, considering the 
BoD election ranking,

instead of the alphabetical order.


I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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 Norbert Thiebaud
2. Deputy Bjoern Michaelsen
3. Deputy Andreas Mantke

Regards,

--

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The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE

Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts

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[board-discuss] Representation in my absence

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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 Bjoern Michaelsen
3. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud

Regards,

--

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The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE

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[board-discuss]

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

I, Osvaldo Gervasi, 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 Bjoern Michaelsen
3. Deputy Norbert Thiebaud

Regards,

--

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The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE

Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts

Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint



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[board-discuss] 3 proposed items for the Agenda of the BoD Call of Feb 29

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,
I would like to propose three items for the agenda of the next BoD 
Call:


KNOWING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY


I propose to extend the website www.documentfoundation.org under the 
COMMUNITY menu item to
enable TDF members to input into the system all activities a member is 
carrying out in terms
of classes, tutorials, seminars, hackfests, conferences and big events 
related to the Foundation (mainly

LibreOffice but also other projects, possibly, in the near future).

An easy page where the TDF Member can provide all informations and 
possibly additional material (slides,
photo, posters, etc). Therefore, it may have heavy requirements in terms 
of disk usage.


The info should then be linked to Bjorn's dashboard project on order to 
facilitate the Membership Committee
and the Board to have the idea of what the members are doing in a given 
period of time.
It can be also linked to the beautiful (sensing) map the Marketing Group 
used for advertising LibO 5.1,
so that a generic visitor clicking on a given portion of the map may 
know the number of TDF Members, the

summary of the initiatives carried out in a given period, etc.

I'm confident such information will be tremendously useful in the future.


HELPING NEWB DEVELOPERS
---
(Ian involved)

I propose to set up a training environment from where a newbie eager to 
contribute to LibreOffice can practice,
without getting lost in the series of steps required to activate a local 
environment from where the source

code can be compiled.

The proper environment will be set up later, once the newbie got to know 
how developers of LibreOffice are

used to work.


INVOLVING UNIVERSITIES
--

I propose to establish a sort of standard agreement with the interested 
Universities worldwide, a sort of partnership
we will advertise also in the website, that will facilitate the 
collaboration of Students and Teachers fan of LibreOffice

with the Foundation.

Initially we may launch a marketing action, then we'll leave the call open.

We may also think to an easy logo such Universities may add to their 
websites to show that they are strongly supporting

LibreOffice and Open Document Formats.

--Osvaldo

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Osvaldo Gervasi, Member of the Board of Directors
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
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[board-discuss] Re: Accepting my position in the Board

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear Cor,

Il 01/01/2016 11:26 AM, Cor Nouws ha scritto:

Dear Osvaldo,

Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you with
your election as member of the Board and wishing you a happy new year!
I hope your time on the board will be both joyous and fruitful.

Then: this mail is to invite you to officially accept your position in
the Board. Can you please do so by respond with a reply all?

Kindest regards,
Cor Nouws - Chairman Membership Committee



thanks so much for your warm words.
I wish you and all TDF members a fruitful, healthy and peaceful New Year!

As per the election as a member of the Board of Directors, here is my 
official acceptance statement:


I, Osvaldo Gervasi, elected 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, 2016.
Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi

Ich, Osvaldo Gervasi, gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied der The Document 
Foundation,
nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document 
Foundation" an.

Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2016.
Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi

Kind Regards,
--Osvaldo

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

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Dear Cor,

Il 01/01/2016 11:26 AM, Cor Nouws ha scritto:

Dear Osvaldo,

Let me first take this opportunity to personally congratulate you with
your election as member of the Board and wishing you a happy new year!
I hope your time on the board will be both joyous and fruitful.

Then: this mail is to invite you to officially accept your position in
the Board. Can you please do so by respond with a reply all?

Kindest regards,
Cor Nouws - Chairman Membership Committee


 thanks so much for your warm words!
I wish you and all TDF Community a fruitful, healthy and peaceful New Year!

Here is my statement of acceptance of my position in the Board of Directors:

I, Osvaldo Gervasi, elected 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, 2016.

Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi

Ich, Osvaldo Gervasi, gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied der The Document 
Foundation,
nehme mein Amt innerhalb der Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts "The Document 
Foundation" an.

Meine Amtszeit beginnt am 18. Februar 2016.

Signed: Osvaldo Gervasi



Kind Regards,
--Osvaldo

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

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Here are my responses to the 7 questions:

*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'm used to have international meetings on a regular basis. In
particular I have managed the International Conference on Computational
Science and Its Applications (http://www.iccsa.org) since 2004, and
participated to International/European Initiatives (EGEE/EGI European Grid,
COST Actions). I reserved the necessary time for attending the calls and
participating to the mailing lists activities.

2.* Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main
items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been
attributed to you by the board?*
Yes. I am strongly committed on honouring the duties the board will assign,
if elected. In my life, in several occasions I have carried out hard tasks
as a volunteer and I have sacrificed for a project simply because I believed in
its core values and its usefulness to the community. LibreOffice is the
most important project in my life.


3.
*What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money be
spent, besides our fixed costs? *
I think the money have to be spent:
1. To pay the professional developers who are working full time or part
time for the project.
2. To launch and finance projects which will strengthen LibreOffice and
make it even more competitive and attractive.
3. To reward the active members on their activities related to TDF (LibO
Conf, International meetings and events, etc)
4. To support people and local communities running events that will
increase the LibreOffice visibility among users.
5. To coordinate the users' activities and the local communities, which are
contributing significantly to the LibreOffice growth, thanks to the
coordination and the facilitation of the migration process they are
carrying on.

4. *Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both
technical and non-technical?*
Yes, definitely. A broader community, made by people active in the various
roles: development, Q and User support, localization, migration, is
fundamental in order to facilitate the LibreOffice success among the users.
In particular, being employee of a University, I want to contribute making
LibreOffice more and more popular among students, teachers, employees. I
want to increase the project popularity also for the employees of all
Public Administrations.
As President of the Open Source Competence Center of the Umbria Region from
2007 to 2013, I coordinated several actions in favour of the Open Source in
general and of LibreOffice in particular, inspiring the LibreUmbria
Project. This project is still a headlight for the Italian Community and
for Italian Public Administrations. I co-founded LibreItalia and launched
several training courses on LibreOffice in primary and secondary schools,
signing several agreements with schools and with the Italian Ministry of
Education. I'm also involved in the supporting activities for the Italian
Army migration (150.000 PCs to migrate) and the supporting documentation
developed by LibreUmbria and LibreItalia is still the base on which to
build the new documentation necessary for a so important migration (second
in Europe, largest in Italy).

5.
*Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice project
or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its influence and
promoting and defending Free Software and Digital Freedom? It is, after
all, an integral part of its mission per its very Statutes. If yes, do you
have ideas on what should be done about this? *
Yes, I think TDF has a strong vocation to be the headlight at the worldwide
level in favour of Free Software and Digital Freedom, being the most
important and fascinating success story of the last six years and for its
intrinsic strength, in cooperation with Free Software Foundation and other
organizations sharing the same aim.
I think the success story of the British Government and its commitment in
favour of Open Formats and Open Data has to be considered as reference for
similar actions to be carry on worldwide.

6. *How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of
directors, given that this position does not give you any specific
functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects?*
As member of the Board of Directors, if elected, I will be in charged,
representing the community, to take the right decisions, contributing with
new ideas. I think that the community may growth and LibreOffice may evolve
and become always a better software suite, if the Board is able to
harmonize the various souls and tendencies and take the right and prompt
decisions.


7.* What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What is
its biggest opportunity?*
I think the biggest problem of the foundation is the financing scheme,
since even if till now the users have 

[board-discuss] Candidacy of Osvaldo Gervasi to the BoD elections

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Name:


Osvaldo Gervasi

75 words statement:
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Hi, I am a University researcher, I inspired LibreUmbriaand 
co-foundedLibreItalia. My candidacy is aimed to pursuethe 
extraordinarily successful TDF activity, contributing with new ideas 
forthe near challenging future. I believewe have to still increasethe 
number of developers, collecting contributions from technicians 
attracted by FLOSS and LibreOffice, and reinforce the role of local 
communities, extending the aims and the successful actions LibreItalia 
has achievedin the last two years.




Email addresses:
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ogerv...@libreoffice.org osva...@libreitalia.it 
osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com osvaldo.gerv...@unipg.it


Organization:
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy