RE: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Seeing a discussion of this. I would like to propose something here. Why not setup an e-commerce site for people that want to purchase swag outside of contests as their way of donating so to speak to the TDF. I am versed in setting up word press as an E-Commerce Site, and can get it to interface

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Joel Madero
On 03/29/2013 05:03 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Tom Davies wrote: That 40 sounds bizzare. This amount refers to presents (Florian clearly stated that). Reimbursing reasonable expenses made by people travelling on behalf of TDF is not a present. Did you read up on continental tax law? If not, t

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Tom Davies wrote: > That 40 sounds bizzare. > This amount refers to presents (Florian clearly stated that). Reimbursing reasonable expenses made by people travelling on behalf of TDF is not a present. Did you read up on continental tax law? If not, this discussion appears to be a tad pointless to m

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cor Nouws wrote: > >Hoodies I think we have some left over (hope?) > > Not that much, and as far as I know mostly small sizes. > Yep, hoodies and tshirts only left in negligible amounts and unlikely sizes. Cheers, -- Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Joel, Joel Madero wrote (29-03-13 17:59) At that cost maybe we can give a sticker to everyone who participates? Let's say it's 50 people (very very optimistic), it might be less than $25 to get them a sticker. And once we ship, we send some more. Always good for everyone to have one at ha

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-29 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
may I suggest, to avoid that twice-yearly dance, to set the time based on CET once and for all.. rather than UTC with 2 adjustment a yer when CET switch in and out of DST. Norbert On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > +1 from my side, of course > > Florian Effenberger wro

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Joel Madero
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: > Thorsten Behrens wrote (28-03-13 19:57) > > Robinson Tryon wrote: >> >>> We're looking to purchase some swag and goodies for the contest. Some >>> of the ideas we've come up with have included: >>> - T-Shirts >>> - Mugs >>> - Posters >>> - Pens

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Thorsten Behrens wrote (28-03-13 19:57) Robinson Tryon wrote: We're looking to purchase some swag and goodies for the contest. Some of the ideas we've come up with have included: - T-Shirts - Mugs - Posters - Pens - Pins - Patches - Hoodies - Laptop cases Great! If you get designs finalized fo

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Joel Madero
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > That 40 sounds bizzare. Some have already claimed more than that on > travel without being even slightly dishonourable. Far from it in fact, > they seem to have gone to extraordinary pains to keep costs down and i > really can't imagi

Re: [board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
+1 from my side, of course Florian Effenberger wrote on 2013-03-29 13:53: Hello, in many countries, this Sunday daylight saving time will start again. In order to keep the effective time of the board calls constant, I'd hereby like to have a quick vote. My request is to change the call time fro

[board-discuss] new BoD call time due to daylight saving time

2013-03-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, in many countries, this Sunday daylight saving time will start again. In order to keep the effective time of the board calls constant, I'd hereby like to have a quick vote. My request is to change the call time from 1600 UTC to 1500 UTC. The complete request: The TDF BoD calls will t

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Tom Davies wrote on 2013-03-28 20:33: That 40 sounds bizzare. Some have already claimed more than that on travel without being even slightly dishonourable. Far from it in fact, they seem to have gone to extraordinary pains to keep costs down and i really can't imagine people in other organ

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That 40 sounds bizzare.  Some have already claimed more than that on travel without being even slightly dishonourable.  Far from it in fact, they seem to have gone to extraordinary pains to keep costs down and i really can't imagine people in other organisations going that far.  It's an un