Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: TDF SC call in CW 20

2011-05-23 Thread Italo Vignoli
. In any case, we should have some budget for giveaways and other small marketing expenses. -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP +39.02.320621813 skype italovignoli -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting

[board-discuss] General questions

2012-02-23 Thread drew
Hi, A few questions: The Advisory Board 1 - Where would I find a rooster of what corporations constitute the board and who their representatives on the board are? 2 - Minutes from AB meetings, where would I find those? Current Budget (expenses paid primarily) 1 - Where, or when

Re: [board-discuss] additional FOSDEM budget

2013-01-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
an additional 600 € for collaterals. Although the amount sounds rather high, we try to give away t-shirts at FOSDEM for donations to get some return money, plus t-shirts not sold will be taken to other trade shows. Florian [1] 20130109-01 on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-03-06

2023-03-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF * Community members ask for travel refunds, but we have no budget - what to do? (Sophie) * Let's carry-over previous year's budget? (Thorsten) * Should be between 20-40k €, can look up exact number (Florian

Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2013-07-17

2013-08-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (02-08-13 10:33) Since that approval, our generous donors have provided more funds, offering further possibilities for TDF to invest in tasks deemed important. Thanks to all our supporters! Proposal: Set up an extended budget with a total amount of 100.250

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, October 31st at 1800 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-10-28 Thread Stephan Ficht
rted in Brussels (Thorsten, Italo, 5 mins) * Italo made a proposal to the board * motion: approve this year's travel expenses from the (still plentiful) marketing budget 7. Status Report, Discuss: Atticization of Online (tdf-board, 10 mins) * ESC provided evaluation * discu

Re: [board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, October 31st at 1800 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-10-28 Thread Simon Phipps
mp; experience from FLOSS >projects > * agree on who does what til when > > 6. Vote, Discuss: Get some lobbying activity started in Brussels > (Thorsten, Italo, 5 mins) > > * Italo made a proposal to the board > * motion: approve this year's t

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, September 19th at 1800 Berlin time (UTC+2)

2022-09-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Dear Community, find below the agenda for our TDF board meeting with a public part, and followed by a private part on Monday, September 19 at 1800 Berlin time at https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

[board-discuss] TDF Budget 2021

2021-03-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, find below a summary of the budget that the Board of Directors approved via e-mail on 2021-03-18. It is now made public in accordance with our statutes. The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders (not including deputies). In order to be quorate, the vote

Re: [board-discuss] budget request: audit of TDF contracts by a tax advisor

2012-05-21 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
escreveu: Hi there, for a few contracts, texts and procedures TDF has setup by now, I'd like to have a German tax advisor review them for being in accordance with our charitable status. For the time being, there are two draft contracts I'd like to have audited, and I've got a quote

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, March 21st at 1700 UTC / 1800 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-03-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Dear Community, find below the agenda for our * TDF board meeting with a public part and followed by a private part on Monday, March 21st at 1700 UTC / 1800 Berlin time (UTC+1) at https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com

Re: [board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, August 8th at 1800 Berlin time (UTC+2)

2022-08-05 Thread Jan Holesovsky
e meeting on Monday. If I'm not around, the standard representation applies. > 3. Vote, Discuss: Merged developer proposal (tdf-board, Jan > Holesovsky, 10 mins) > > * should the merged proposal be ready > * have a last round of discussion > * if

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [VOTE] New proposal for hiring in-house developers.

2022-12-02 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi all, On 02/12/2022 23:42, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi, Until someone can explain me that it is beneficial to TDF to compete with contributing members of the ecosystem, I see this attempt from Andreas as not at all interesting. Nobody can explain to you "that it is beneficial to TDF to co

Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14

2013-01-15 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: QA netbooks (Björn) I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so

Preliminary December 2012 profits losses (was: Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget as of 2012-12-12)

2013-02-13 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget as of 2012-12-12 This is a non-binding draft. ConCardis is subject to conversion rates and fees. Empty fields declare either no spending, or amount already booked. For SPI, incl. AB fees, see http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2012

[board-discuss] Travel refund volunteers needed

2012-10-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
, but there are several more steps required. In a nutshell, it's: (1) Getting to know the approved budget from the board (2) Asking the organizers for a list of all participants (3) Knowing our travel refund policy (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies) and its limitations plus

Re: [board-discuss] 2013 budget as of today

2013-01-29 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
of the TDF budget. It's available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Tdfbudget2013.pdf The good news is that we have, despite some expenses, grown the total amount available, leaving an unallocated amount of approximately 17.000 €. For SPI, who kindly provide travel funding

[board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board phone meeting on Monday, November 21, at 1700 Berlin time

2016-11-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, find below the public agenda for our TDF board phone meeting on Monday, November 21, at 1700 Berlin time (note that Berlin is on UTC+1 now) Dial-in: == Dial-in numbers are at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Talkyoo We'll meet in the Public

Re: [board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board phone meeting on Monday, December 5, at 1700 Berlin time

2016-12-05 Thread Osvaldo Gervasi
Hi, As already announced I cannot attend today, so my delegation statement applies. :) Best Regards, 2016-12-05 10:35 GMT+01:00 Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org>: > Hello, > > find below the public agenda for our > > TD

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] approval of preliminary budget for 2022

2022-04-06 Thread Andreas Mantke
gemacht', which applies to this change of process. a) All board members have the overall responsibility for leading TDF and its budget. There are no part-time or part-responsible board members. Thus if a board member abstain from the voting it doesn't change anything regarding CoI etc. b

[board-discuss] public agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, February 12th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2021-02-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Dear community, find below the agenda for our -> TDF board meeting with a public part and followed by a private part -> on Friday, February 12th at 1300 Berlin time For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20210212T13=37=136=2

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting with invited elected board members on Friday, January 14th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-01-11 Thread Stephan Ficht
Dear community, find below the agenda for our -> TDF board meeting with a public part and followed by a private part -> on Friday, January 14th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1) For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20220114T13=37=136=2

Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-05-08

2012-06-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-05-08 This is a non-binding draft, which does not include advisory board fees. Incoming Bank account 40.442,13 € PayPal 139,37 € Outgoing one-time fees Currently none Outgoing recurring fees, extrapolated to one year

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting with current and elected board members on Friday, January 28th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-01-25 Thread Stephan Ficht
Dear community, find below the agenda for our -> TDF board meeting with a public part and followed by a private part -> on Friday, January 28th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1) For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20220128T13=37=136=2

[board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, May 8th at 1300 Berlin time

2020-05-06 Thread Stephan Ficht
Dear community, find below the public agenda for the TDF board meeting on Friday, May 8th at 1300 Berlin time For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20200508T13=37=136=241=589 at https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard as we still

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-14 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Kendy, all, Am 14.02.22 um 16:42 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Po 14. 02. 2022 v 15:29 +0100: but maybe it would be great, if you could stop to pick on someone. It seemed your only intention on this topic is to control (with your non-TDF-hat on) everything

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [VOTE] New proposal for hiring in-house developers.

2022-12-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, I've brought this to the list tdf-internal for further discussion. Cheers, Cor Paolo Vecchi wrote on 03/12/2022 01:32: Hi all, On 02/12/2022 23:42, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi, Until someone can explain me that it is beneficial to TDF to compete with contributing members of the ecosystem, I

Re: [board-discuss] Dividing & excluding ...

2022-04-07 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
ated. >> >> So - let me vigorously complain as a Trustee: that those for >> whom I voted are being encouraged to exclude themselves from the very >> things that they were elected to do. The very idea that we should >> exclude some of our most competent is grim for TDF -

Re: [board-discuss] A thank-you to our app-store publishers.

2022-06-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 11 juin 2022 17:53:17 GMT+02:00, Andreas Mantke a écrit : >Hi all, > >always the same not appropriate behavior: capture a thread with a new >subject. > >Am 10.06.22 um 11:51 schrieb Michael Meeks: >> Hi there, >> >> Paolo Vecchi wrote on 31.05.22 at 2

Re: [board-discuss] Board elections: questions to the candidate Paolo Vecchi

2021-11-30 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi all, see below my answers. 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled board calls? I'm very happy to invest my time in TDF as I've done during the current term. For all of us, time is nowadays

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-03-20

2023-03-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
* let's not block on that * AI Sophie: clarify board-discuss migration on tdf-members The public meeting ends at 17:28 UTC / 18:28 Berlin time ### Private Part 4. Vote, Discuss: Discussion and budget for developer roles (Florian Effenberger, 5 mins) 5. Status Report, Discuss: Improve tendering proc

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
other comments are more of the form: "your problem, not mine", or "TDF doesn't need to nurture an ecosystem - why complain to TDF" ? So - of course, that is on one hand fine. Hypothetically TDF could sit at the center o

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2019-08-02

2019-08-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
: safety improvements for events (Marina, 10 minutes) for more details see my previous e-mail "A lesson learned from openSUSE conf 2019 and an important improvement for TDF" Detailed proposal: 1) the automatic defibrillator is not always a mandatory requirement in a pu

Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14

2013-01-15 Thread Olivier Hallot
) Marketing (Charles) -- I think this one is for the FB ads? I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so the board has no advantage over

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2022-03-21

2022-03-31 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Gautier, Stephan Ficht, Florian Effenberger, Guilhem Moulin    Community - "Fellow Jitster" Representation: None (...) Public meeting ends at 17:13 UTC / 18:13 Berlin time. Private part 3. Discuss & vote: budget for 2022 (Thorsten, all 40 mins) because the discussion and dec

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] approval of preliminary budget for 2022

2022-04-06 Thread Paolo Vecchi
. As a fully transparent process is not yet in place before final approval so non bidding members of the board, together with the team and the person that made the proposal, will need to review each tender in the budget to make sure that there is no doubts about the benefit for TDF and its wider

[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-12-12

2013-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
has not been prepared so far, and this is a good time for the directors to request a budget for 2013 activities. The board should be able to file proposals to spend money according to TDF charitable objectives. Final discussion on budget planning is postponed to the next call in early 2013. 4

Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

2015-11-25 Thread Simon Phipps
der to participate to the regularly scheduled > board calls? > Yes. > > > 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main > items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been > attributed to you by the board? > Yes. > 3. What are your

Re: [board-discuss] Budget - assignment and coverage (was: [DRAFT] Rules of Procedure for the TDF board)

2012-09-19 Thread Florian Monfort
thoughts to throw in. This touches several topics which I will handle within several mails: - Budget - assignment and coverage I read the last budget report http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.steering-discuss/2662 How much money would a hired officer cost? How much money

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expenses

2013-02-13 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 2/13/13 5:37 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: I assume you are talking about the decision # 20121220-01 from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions, right? (budget of 2,000 € for Italo Vignoli's trip to POSSCON and LibrePlanet) Yes. So, for the Oman trip there has been

[board-discuss] Budget overview for 2018

2018-05-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, find attached an overview of the budget as approved by the board recently. Looking forward to all the exciting and interesting projects that are upcoming! Freelancers, contractors and employees: 484.933,15 € Accounting and legal advice: 27.490,00 € Office cost & discretionary spen

[board-discuss] TDF Budget 2020

2020-05-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, find below a summary of the budget that the Board of Directors approved in their meeting on 2020-04-24. It is now made public in accordance with our statutes. Recurring: 756.296,62 € Salaries and compensations 579.806,62 € Accounting and legal advice 27.490,00 € Running cost

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] award text layout tender to Collabora

2022-03-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, Am 09.03.22 um 13:31 schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Andras, Thanks for your mail and interest. Andreas Mantke wrote on 08/03/2022 18:34: two questions: a) who has participated in the voting? b) who has participated in the decision about the budget item and its amount? I think

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Budget request for marketing, community and events

2023-03-16 Thread Cor Nouws
the bills from TDF money. You may have noticed in the years 2012-2018, when you were deputy, that it is rather common that the decision for the budget for a certain year is made in that same year. Cheers, Cor -- Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707

June 2012 profits losses (was: Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-06-26)

2012-07-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-06-26 This is a non-binding draft, which does not include advisory board fees. Empty fields declare either no spending, or amount already booked. Incoming Bank account

(resend) July 2012 profits losses (was: Re: [board-discuss] TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-07-20)

2012-08-27 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sorry, mailing list temporarily blocked attachments - Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-07-20 This is a non-binding draft, which does not include advisory board fees. Empty fields declare either no spending, or amount already booked. Incoming

[board-discuss] August 2012 profits losses (was: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-09-01)

2012-10-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-09-01 This is a non-binding draft. Empty fields declare either no spending, or amount already booked. For SPI donations, including Advisory Board fees, see http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/2012/2012-08-09/ Incoming

[board-discuss] September 2012 profits losses (was: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-10-02)

2012-11-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: TDF Budget for 2012 as of 2012-10-02 Incoming Bank account 43.624,70 € Credit card account 472,40 € PayPal 339,66 € Flattr 9,96 € ConCardis 1.150,00 € Outgoing one-time fees (None) Outgoing recurring fees, extrapolated

[board-discuss] Re: Board elections: questions to the candidate Caolán McNamara

2021-11-29 Thread Caolán McNamara
st) the main > items and actions you will volunteer to oversee or that will be > assigned to you by the board? Sure. > 3. What is your willingness to delegate decisions, especially in lack > of time? I'm happy to delegate. > 4. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2022-02-11

2022-02-15 Thread Stephan Ficht
TDF + the mailing list thread is really hard to read (Heiko) + improve the situation by using decidim? + in the budget ranking a project for implementing it (Emiliano) + how does it help? (Michael) + provide proposals, and collect votes (Emiliano) + have

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-11-06

2020-11-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
ng present. The majority threshold is currently 4. The meeting commences at 13:04 Berlin time. Public part 1. Q: 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) +

Re: [board-discuss] Looking forward, not backwards (was: Counterproposal to the "actization" of LibreOffice Online)

2022-01-14 Thread Paolo Vecchi
ngs should be clear to most it would be great to get back to work in a way that benefits TDF and its LibreOffice community One obvious area where there's very little commercial incentive to do things is a11y. At the same time, that would be something very charitable to fund & further

Re: [steering-discuss] LinuxCon Europe

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:45 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: That's an odd rule. A reimbursement for a guest or for an emissary should include Travel, Accommodation and Living. The only place in recent memory that has told me it does not pay for Living is TDF. Paying for everything

[steering-discuss] Reimbursement for LinuxCon Europe

2011-09-21 Thread Italo Vignoli
I have already asked for reimbursement of expenses that I will incur for representing TDF at LinuxCon Europe in Prague, but as I have found a better combination I am reposting the request with the updated budget: EasyJet flight: 90 euro Hotel Bella in Prague: 136 euro Parking and transfers: 54

Re: [board-discuss] buying a new server

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Meeks
an updated budget (which you can already retrieve via the intranet). Wow - well, it is entirely possible that ByteMark may donate some hardware for our mirror service in return for some (tasteful discrete) mention / linkage. Dan would be the guy there. What specification of machine

Re: [board-discuss] funding for admin weekend

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:34 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: like last year, the admin team of TDF would like to gather for an internal meeting, in order to discuss and work on important topics, such as virtualiziation, HA/failover, system upgrade and such. Sounds really important

Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expense Approval

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:47 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: I will represent the project at the upcoming SFScon in Bolzano, on November 14. This year, we will have a 2 hours long workshop in the afternoon, focused on migrations and certification, in addition to a booth (staffed by local TDF

[board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board web meeting on Friday, October 12th, at 1400, Berlin time

2018-10-07 Thread Marina Latini
organizations 2) Budget for the Hackfest in Munich If you have something to discuss with the board, please, reply to this message and join us during the meeting. ATB, Marina -- Marina Latini, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Tel: +39 3497482812 | IRC: deneb_alpha on Freenode GPG

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2020-04-24

2020-05-14 Thread Uwe Altmann
u ashamed of this document of obvious idleness? There are open issues which damage the Foundation and the community as long they are not solved and you dare to just do nothing? Or at least to tell us nothing about what has been discussed and/or done? Just to remind item 4 of the last TDF board me

[board-discuss] Running for a Board of Directors Seat at the TDF

2015-11-24 Thread Andreas Mantke
work for LibreOffice and TDF. I'm also not in a (commercial) partnership with a company doing business around LibreOffice or TDF. I'm employed by a social security institution in Düsseldorf and work there in the office with files and German regulations. I'm active in the community

[board-discuss] Public agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, March 27th at 1300 Berlin time

2020-03-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
for the community to ask questions to the new board and about TDF. 2. Information: Annual report, finances and budget (Florian, 10min) Rational: giving informations, bringing transparency to process/deadlines, planing follow ups 3. Information, Discussion: LPI agreement (South America

[board-discuss] public and private Agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, January 15th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2021-01-11 Thread Stephan Ficht
opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF.   2. Discuss: 2021 budget planning, draft (Thorsten, Florian, All 10min)     Rationale: preparation for FOSDEM meeting, status of planning, missing bits and pieces, feedback so far, timeline 3. Discuss: TDC/TDC2 next ste

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-14 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Po 14. 02. 2022 v 15:29 +0100: > but maybe it would be great, if you could stop to pick on someone. > > It seemed your only intention on this topic is to control (with your > non-TDF-hat on) everything. > > That is not a cooperative be

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-03-20

2023-03-29 Thread Andreas Mantke
process (tdf-board, 5 mins) 6. Status Report, Discuss: Next steps legal ToDo items (Paolo Vecchi, 20 mins) 7. Status Report, Discuss: TDF 2023 Budget Planning (tdf-board, 5 mins) Thorsten and Gabor declared a personal interest on the above topics (see above). I ask if they both attended the call

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-15 Thread Paolo Vecchi
ping in QA and agreeing with the team which bugs should be fixed would help in speeding up things for both tasks. Currently, both the old and the new board are ranking all budget proposals. We will see what comes out top, if there's budget for it, and how the board & TDF can then execute on those items

[board-discuss] [DECISION] - Budget Request promoting LibreOffice/ODF at event for Dutch administrations

2018-10-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
spent 2.096,17 from 31.500,00 (TDF Budget Overview.ods FE 20180920) The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 7 Board of Directors

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] - Budget Request promoting LibreOffice/ODF at event for Dutch administrations

2018-10-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
h from other members too) > > Costs: >  - total max 4760 >  specified: >  - booth 4235.- >  - banners 160.- >  - info-sheets 315.- >  - travel costs 50.- > > Budget marketing: >  - so far spent 2.096,17 from 31.500,00 >    (TDF Budget Overview.ods FE 20180

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
2022 budget, because their staff / manager take responsibility for that whole budget (including the tender items). And further addition: the items in the 2022 budget are not fixed and couldn't changed or adjusted by a further board vote (thus there could and would be a budget for in-house devel

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: TDF SC call in CW 20

2011-05-25 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:18 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 05/23/2011 10:06 PM, drew wrote: My email to you was an inquiry about budgets for general show material. snip In any case, we should have some budget for giveaways and other small marketing expenses. Hi, Yes, it would help

[board-discuss] [DECISION] award text layout tender to Collabora

2022-03-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 4 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote. The vote is quorate. A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 3 votes. Florian Effenberger wrote on 02.03.22 at 14:41: [..] TDF published the text layout tender at https

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] award text layout tender to Collabora

2022-03-09 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi! On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 12:32 PM Cor Nouws wrote: > > Andreas Mantke wrote on 08/03/2022 18:34: > > > two questions: > > a) who has participated in the voting? > > b) who has participated in the decision about the budget item and its > > amount? > > &g

[board-discuss] [DECISION] award C++ accessibility test tender to Hypra

2022-02-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 4 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote. The vote is quorate. A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 3 votes. TDF published the C++ accessibility test tender: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/10

Re: [board-discuss] Looking forward, not backwards (was: Counterproposal to the "actization" of LibreOffice Online)

2022-01-20 Thread Simon Phipps
ks on the list fell into that category while I was on the Board. It seemed that things needed sufficient specialist experience that writing a satisfactory tender was sometimes the first task that needed doing! Thus (and as you imply) the best approach might be for TDF to have an accessibili

[board-discuss] [DECISION] award tender to clean up and further improve ODF conformance to allotropia

2022-04-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, the following decision, which was taken in private on 2022-04-29, is now made public in accordance with our statutes. Florian Effenberger wrote on 25.04.22 at 17:57: TDF published the "Tender to clean up and further improve ODF conformance": https://blog.documentfoundatio

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-03-20

2023-03-30 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, all, Am 29.03.23 um 15:58 schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 29/03/2023 12:04: 7. Status Report, Discuss: TDF 2023 Budget Planning (tdf-board, 5 mins) Thorsten and Gabor declared a personal interest on the above topics (see above). I ask if they both attended

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-03-20

2023-03-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 29/03/2023 12:04: 7. Status Report, Discuss: TDF 2023 Budget Planning (tdf-board, 5 mins) Thorsten and Gabor declared a personal interest on the above topics (see above). I ask if they both attended the call and the discussion during this three topics

[board-discuss] Proposal of Basic Lobby Activity on Behalf of TDF

2022-10-30 Thread Italo Vignoli
of a lobbying activity in the common interest. 4. Of course, pursue other opportunities which are unforeseen at the moment (but could arise as an effect of the structured activities). In term of budget, I forecast a yearly figure of € 6,000 maximum (based on 12 events during the year, which

Re: [board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Monday, October 31st at 1800 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2022-10-31 Thread Stephan Ficht
     * Italo made a proposal to the board      * motion: approve this year's travel expenses from the (still        plentiful) marketing budget 7. Status Report, Discuss: Atticization of Online (tdf-board, 10 mins)      * ESC provided evaluation      * discussed brie

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2021-02-12

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
) Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF. * any questions? (Lothar) * next decade manifesto (Uwe) * seeking feedback, received from Cor so far * sent mail yesterday + how will the process got on + Lothar/Emiliano will reply

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] approval of preliminary budget for 2022

2022-04-06 Thread Paolo Vecchi
to this change of process. a) All board members have the overall responsibility for leading TDF and its budget. There are no part-time or part-responsible board members. Thus if a board member abstain from the voting it doesn't change anything regarding CoI etc. b) It doesn't help, if a deputy board

Re: [board-discuss] TDF budget early draft

2012-06-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: as discussed during one of the last BoD calls, here is an early *draft* of the TDF budget. This draft is by no means binding, and provides only a rough overview. We will update it with a more sophisticated version over time. Be advised that for various reasons

[board-discuss] Agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, March 12th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+1)

2021-03-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Dear community, find below the agenda for our -> TDF board meeting with a public part and followed by a private part -> on Friday, March 12th at 1300 Berlin time For time zone conversion, see e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20210312T13=37=136=2

[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2012-06-13

2012-06-18 Thread Olivier Hallot
: while spending for IT services, consider spendings in improving the portal for LO and TDF: better usability. 6) Travel Expenses for Jean Weber at OSCON: Porposal for funding up to USD 2000,00 covering parto of ticket and hotel. 7 votes in favor. Discussion: TDF must have a travel budget to bound

[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat -- Bjoern Michaelsen

2013-11-11 Thread bjoern
for onboarding of newcomers - did my part in coordinating and starting gerrit to make code review on LibreOffice a lot easier and clearing the road for more CI in LibreOffice - administrated the TDF QA Budget - did my duty on the ESC, took part in almost all calls, resolved countless

[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2023-01-09

2023-01-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
. Thorsten, Cor * 4. # The public meeting commences at 17:03 UTC / 18:03 Berlin time. ## AGENDA: ### Public Part 1. Answering questions from the community (tdf-board, 5 mins) Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF * When will we

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: TDF SC call in CW 20

2011-05-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
. What we maybe should do is indeed draft some budget plan before we go on and spend money. We have roughly about 93.000 € on the account at the moment, so we have about 43.000 € to spend, not counting in monthly fees, outstanding lawyer fees for trademarks, outstanding notary and probably

Re: [board-discuss] [VOTE] Ask for additional employement budget

2013-01-24 Thread Olivier Hallot
(the contract which you had approved end of last year), and some mandatory social security dues, TDF will, at this moment, incur € 50.00 extra per month. Barring any other changes to taxes and social security dues over the year, I'd therefore ask the board to approve € 600.00 on top

Re: [board-discuss] additional FOSDEM budget

2013-01-29 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +1 And my advise is to not make this a recurrent practice (i.e. blow the budget) Regards Olivier Em 28-01-2013 09:43, Florian Effenberger escreveu: Hello, the board has previously approved [1] 2.000 € for FOSDEM collaterals. Because we would

[board-discuss] Re: Marketing Budget Approval for FUEL GILT 2015

2015-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2015-10-25 11:40, Italo Vignoli a écrit : FUEL GILT is one of the largest conferences focused on localization issues, and is organized by a number of TDF community members in India (those who have attended the conference in Aarhus). They have invited Sophie and myself to attend the conference

[board-discuss] Marketing Budget Approval for FUEL GILT 2015

2015-10-25 Thread Italo Vignoli
FUEL GILT is one of the largest conferences focused on localization issues, and is organized by a number of TDF community members in India (those who have attended the conference in Aarhus). They have invited Sophie and myself to attend the conference, and the idea is the I attend 2015 and Sophie

Re: [board-discuss] Marketing Budget Approval for FUEL GILT 2015

2015-10-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 25 octobre 2015 16:40:31 GMT+01:00, Italo Vignoli <it...@libreoffice.org> a écrit : >FUEL GILT is one of the largest conferences focused on localization >issues, and is organized by a number of TDF community members in India >(those who have attended the conference in Aar

[board-discuss] Agenda for a formal board meeting on Friday, December 17, 1200 UTC (1300 Berlin time)

2021-12-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
the community (all, 10 minutes) Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF Private Part 2. Discussion: 2022 budget (all, 30 minutes) Rationale: The primary agenda item for this formal meeting is the discussion of the first draft of our

Re: [board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2022-03-21

2022-03-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
   Community - "Fellow Jitster" Representation: None (...) Public meeting ends at 17:13 UTC / 18:13 Berlin time. Private part 3. Discuss & vote: budget for 2022 (Thorsten, all 40 mins) because the discussion and decision was made in private, there is no information given

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] additional budget of 30.000 € for legal consultations

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Phipps
. As a more minor point, it would be good to also report the attendance in this item too, so that this becomes a more complete record and we know who was involved. Thanks! Simon (TDF Trustee) On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 2:39 PM Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: &

[board-discuss] Invitation and agenda for a formal board meeting on Monday, December 19, 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET / Berlin time)

2022-12-01 Thread Thorsten Behrens
The agenda is as follows: ## Public Part 1. Q: Answering questions from the community (all, 10 minutes) Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF ## Private Part 2. Discussion: Status update strategic goals (all, 20 minutes) Rationale

Re: [board-discuss] UPDATED Draft Marketing Plan 2020-2025

2020-07-09 Thread Paolo Vecchi
18.06.20 um 11:25 schrieb Italo Vignoli: >> The draft presentation is available online on TDF Nextcloud: >> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/jzryGw7XDkJadmo >> >> Please focus on the overall strategy and not on specific details, as >> details can be tweaked

[board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2013-12-11

2013-12-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
a discussion on a budget for 2014, incorporating all previous budget approvals and decisions. Since that approval, our generous donors have provided more funds, offering further possibilities for TDF to invest in tasks deemed important. The discussion and vote will be continued next week, but those

[board-discuss] Statement about TDC - 2020/05

2020-05-25 Thread Lothar K. Becker
the tendering process both with intentions, strong will and financial planning (tender streamlining has been the most voted item on the last run of rankings for the 2020 budget). Finally, with TDF being a charitable entity, its core mission is not software development, nor bug fixing; as such, it has been

[board-discuss] A thank-you to our app-store publishers.

2022-06-10 Thread Michael Meeks
brands in software catalogs left and right. Anyhow. Lots of good work, much of it already working and build-able on without immediate bit-rot I hope. If the TDF board want to have a bigger packaging team, so be it. Hopefully it will not negatively impact those who previously did the work.

Re: [board-discuss] A thank-you to our app-store publishers.

2022-06-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 10 juin 2022 11:51:49 GMT+02:00, Michael Meeks a écrit : >Hi there, > >Paolo Vecchi wrote on 31.05.22 at 21:03: >> TDF to publish LibreOffice in the app stores, especially Apple and >> Microsoft. TDF will work to prepare LibreOffice for the app stores &

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