The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting 2021-07-02
Meeting Minutes
Date: 2021-07-02
Location: Jitsi
Session chair: Lothar Becker
Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht
In the meeting:
Board - Lothar Becker, Thorsten Behrens, Michael Meeks, Emiliano
Vavassori, Cor Nouws
Board Deputies - Nicolas Christener, Paolo Vecchi
Membership Committee -
Membership Committee Deputies - Shinji Enoki
Team - Sophie Gautier, Florian Effenberger, Italo Vignoli, Stephan Ficht
Community -
Representation: Nicolas for Franklin (asks for e-mail votes), Paolo for
Daniel
Chairman of the Board is in the meeting. One of the Chairman or Deputy
Chairman 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 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 meeting is quorate and invitation happened in time. From now on,
motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those
remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 4.
The meeting commences at 13:03 Berlin time.
Public Part
1. Q&A: Answering Questions from the community (All, max. 10 min)
Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions
to the board and about TDF.
* any questions? (Lothar)
2. Discuss&Plan: Marketing Input to a draft update of trademark policies
and certification process for approval (Florian, Italo, all 10min)
Rational: Italo asked for feedback and approval from the board, if
there is a need we head over in private
* propose few changes to certification (Italo)
* proposal #1 creation of a basic certification and creation of
online training for that
* for migration, based evaluation what they did for projects
* easy path to certification was missing
* receive increasing number of applications outside the project,
with no specific activities
* provide course leading to basic certification, 39 á 25 minutes
via video
* based on Udemi, also used by others
* fee for each training, to be handled via TDF business entity
* looking into how to handle payment, risk to exclude some
participants
* TDF to limit direct access to migration professional and
professional trainers to TDF members
* non-members have to attend basic certification, 12 months
waiting time to proof projects, then can apply for professional
certification
* people who contribute to the certification project itself will
get a senior title, for differentiation and showing seniority
* encouragement to contribute to certification project
* no changes for developer certification, but propose a senior
title for developers who contribute for certification
* will have a deeper look into (Lothar)
* idea is fine
* happy with the overall idea (Michael)
* connected to that, change in trademark handling
* seems a logical consequence of what just discussed (Lothar)
* AI Italo: need to consolidate feedback
* appreciate proposal (Emiliano)
* will only to qualify people to become trainer (Italo)
* then they can propose training to the outside world
* AI Italo: start email vote
* likely will abstain to avoid impression of CoI (Lothar)
* but generally in favor
Public meeting ends at 13:18 Berlin time.
Private Part
X. Last-minute: law firm appointment
3. Discussion: App Store offering TDF and status and orga of the legal
advice meeting (Lothar, Florian, all 40min)
Rational: Discussion about the need and sort of offerings in the app
store beside the upcoming legal advice, orga of the call
reason why in private: confidential items for advice, preliminary
discussion of offerings
Private meeting ends at 14:00 Berlin time.
Lothar Becker (Session chair)
Stephan Ficht (Keeper of the minutes)
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