[board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi *, TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related workloads, e.g. tinderbox builds. One of our sponsoring companies is offering for-free hosting, such that this is a one-off spending. I hereby request the board to approve

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call today

2012-01-11 Thread Italo Vignoli
As I might not be able to make the conference call, because of a previous meeting that has been postponed to 3:30PM CET, I am appointing Bjoern Michaelsen as my deputy for today's call. Best regards, Italo -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Ok, i am not a voting member but the options here seem to be 1.  accept the donation and get an asset that might be useful (probably will be enormously useful) 2.  hand back the dosh So i am not really clear why it's even up for discussion or voting on but i guess it's good policy jic

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call today

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Italo Vignoli wrote on 2012-01-11 12:53: As I might not be able to make the conference call, because of a previous meeting that has been postponed to 3:30PM CET, I am appointing Bjoern Michaelsen as my deputy for today's call. Best regards, Italo I know that Björn might not be able to

Re: [board-discuss] BoD call today

2012-01-11 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/11/12 1:08 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Italo Vignoli wrote on 2012-01-11 12:53: As I might not be able to make the conference call, because of a previous meeting that has been postponed to 3:30PM CET, I am appointing Bjoern Michaelsen as my deputy for today's call. Best regards, Italo

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Tom Davies wrote: So i am not really clear why it's even up for discussion or voting Because you can't just donate $xy to TDF, and ask us to buy, say, a nuclear warhead on ebay - without the board explicitely approving the purchase. HTH, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Thorsten, * I'm not voting, but want to get this right ... Original-Nachricht Von: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org An: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure a rack-mountable server,

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. Excellent by me :-) Thanks,

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
André Schnabel wrote: This would mean, that 1) TDF gets $3k to by any server that then will be hostet by a sponsor for free 2) TDF gets $3k to by a certain server which is available, and hosted by a sponsor for free It's 1) with some suggestions on what would be desirable (from both

Re: [board-discuss] FOSDEM travel funding

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: I guess I need funding of not more than 400 €. Would the BoD be willing to support this request? +1 -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[board-discuss] agenda for today's call

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I might not be able to make it today - need to organize some things in town, and might not be back in time, though I'll try. In any case, I have prepared an agenda for the public call at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings#Agenda, feel free to pick those items you feel

Re: [board-discuss] agenda for today's call

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2012-01-11 16:05: I might not be able to make it today - need to organize some things in oh, and of course, any of the deputies might jump in for me. (Be advised that IMHO one deputy can only represent one BoD member, so the one representing Italo cannot

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
+1 Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2012-01-11 12:31: I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype:

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:30:16 +, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com a écrit : On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a

[board-discuss] A New LibreOffice Bounty!

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Jones
Hello, Document Foundation! Somebody has posted a bounty to fund some development of LibreOffice on Gun.io. I'm not sure if this was by you or a member or your community or not, but I thought perhaps you'd be interested in either donating to it, publicizing it, or working on it yourselves! Check

[tdf-discuss] Strange Formatting left after Locale setting Farsi

2012-01-11 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I did some tests with Farsi Locale and UI, was a little careless, and now these documents have some formatting problems, lots of number formattings have been destroyed, I reported https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44687 for that Does anybody know a way how to get back my

[tdf-discuss] A New LibreOffice Bounty!

2012-01-11 Thread Rich Jones
Hello, DocFound people! A new bounty came across our system, I'm not sure if it was you who posted it or not, but if not, I thought you might be interested in checking it out: http://gun.io/open/25/better-windows-7-taskbar-integration-for-libreoff Thanks! -- Rich Jones Director, Gun.io --

Re: [tdf-discuss] A New LibreOffice Bounty!

2012-01-11 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/1/11 Rich Jones r...@gun.io: Hello, DocFound people! I guess you mean DocFound- and Windows people. A new bounty came across our system, I'm not sure if it was you who posted it or not, but if not, I thought you might be interested in checking it out:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace Floppy Disk

2012-01-11 Thread v_2e
I like the floppy icon. HDD icon is being broadly used nowadays, but as somebody pointed in this thread, not every user is familiar with computer inside, so changing from one thing that they haven't seen to another one which they also haven't seen doesn't make much sense. Optical drive icon

Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace Floppy Disk

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Pursell
On 11 January 2012 22:15, v...@ukr.net wrote: I like the floppy icon. HDD icon is being broadly used nowadays, but as somebody pointed in this thread, not every user is familiar with computer inside, so changing from one thing that they haven't seen to another one which they also haven't

Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace Floppy Disk

2012-01-11 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:26:16 + Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I'm not making any proposal here for changing the Save icon. I'm just trying to use my experience as evidence that we don't have to stick with an antiquated floppy disk icon just because its the