Hello, find below the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-05-14.
This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Sophie Minutes 2014-05-14 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, May 14, 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), Eike Rathke (Deputy Board of Directors), 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 15:08 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.Certification status update Italo said that the website is under construction and should be ready by the end of this week for an announcement next week to the TDF members list. This will open for them the possibility to apply for certification. The site contains 2 pages: already certified people and documents (presentation of the protocol, how-to, QA, history of the project). The already certified members will have to sign the certification agreement. The certification process is split in todos that will be different if applying for migration (Europe) or deployment (US). Certification committee will read and approve the document filled, then a meeting (could be virtual) with 3 committee members to approve or explain rejection will take place. Certification should be done carefully because it means that certified are ambassadors of the project. The agreement is a text binding the person to TDF in term of responsibility. Some members are already well known for their training or migrating skills and filling the documents should be only a formality for them. The board will make a collective call to collect their name and provide a list end of May and certified them by the end of June. 2.LibOCon status update Sophie said the number of papers is growing but slowly. The final date will be extended by the end of the month. Michael suggested to add the possibility of short talks and training talks to the announcement. He also recommended to announce the extension one day after the closing date. Bjoern confirmed that last year he accepted short talks very late in the process. Sophie said that Florian together with Italo will provide sponsors contact to the Bern team once the sponsor package ready. The conference organization is going smoothly and we are on track there. The call terminated at 15:30 UTC Attending at the end of the call: Thorsten Behrens, Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Michael Meeks, Fridrich Strba, Bjoern Michaelsen, Adam Fyne, Joel Madero, Norbert Thiebaud, Eike Rathke, Italo Vignoli, Sophie Gautier. Thorsten Behrens (Session Chair) Sophie Gautier (Keeper of the minutes) -- 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
