Hello, find below the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-07-09.
This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies. Sophie Minutes 2014-07-09 The Document Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Call Minutes Date: Wednesday, July 09, 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), Joel Madero (Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Eike Rathke (Deputy Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Executive Director), Olivier Hallot, Charles-H Schulz, Sophie Gautier. Representation: Norbert Thiebaud representing Bjoern Michaelsen, Eike Rathke representing Adam Fyne 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 15:00 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. Public part =========== 1. LibreOffice conference Sophie says the organization is going on. Matthias needs keynotes names for the local PR. Also, it would be great to have a first draft of the program that would help registrations to grow. Sophie has pinged the mentors of the GSoc program to remind their students that they are invited. Norbert will send a mail to invite contributors with high commits during the year to attend the conference. The general message has to be passed to the project lists that we are able to reimburse travel for contributors. Michael would like to reserve a keynote for Jay from CloudOn. The call is terminated at 15h22 UTC. Attending at the end of the call: Joel Madero, Michael Meeks, Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Thorsten Behrens, Fridrich Strba, Norbert Thiebaud, Eike Rathke, Florian Effenberger, Olivier Hallot, Sophie Gautier. Thorsten Behrens, Chairman of the Board Sophie Gautier, keeper or 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
