Hello, find below the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-05-28.
This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Sophie Minutes 2014-05-28 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Location: Phone Conference Room Session chair: Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board) Keeper of the minutes: Sophie Gautier In the call: Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board), Eliane Domingos de Sousa (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Fridrich Strba (Board of Directors), Bjoern Michaelsen (Board of Directors), Adam Fyne (Board of Directors), Joel Madero (Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Executive Director), Olivier Hallot, Italo Vignoli, Sophie Gautier. Chairman of the Board is in the call. One of the Chairman or Deputy 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 or their representatives 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 call is quorate. >From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes. The meeting commences at 15:05 UTC. It was held partly in public and partly in private as the board saw a need for confidentiality during discussions. The results are now being made public in accordance with our statutes. 1. Hackfest locations Bjoern said that there is no hackfest planned after LibOCon in September. There will be Fosdem in February, then we can have one in November/December area and another one in spring. The proposals are Cambridge, Hamburg, Freiburg, Gran Canaria and Toulouse. Freiburg is to be considered for spring, we could have Gran Canaria after Fosdem, and then Cambridge. Toulouse is proposed for November. In any case one of these could be quickly replaced by Hamburg in case of failure. Bjoern will get back to Arnaud for Toulouse. The public call terminated at 15:15 UTC In the call at the end of the meeting: Thorsten Behrens, Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Michael Meeks, Fridrich Strba, Bjoern Michaelsen, Adam Fyne, Joel Madero, Norbert Thiebaud, Florian Effenberger, Olivier Hallot, Italo Vignoli, Sophie Gautier. -- Sophie Gautier <sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org> Tel:+33683901545 Membership & Certification Committee Member - Co-founder The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
