[board-discuss] Membership Committee Candicacy

2014-08-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear all, I am interested in serving at the Membership Committee of the Document Foundation. I have been one of the co-founders of the LibreOffice project and used to be a contributor of the OpenOffice.org project. These days I am mostly involved in comms and marketing for the community. I will

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Membership Committee

2014-08-19 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi all, I would like to announce my candidacy to the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation. The Membership Committee is an important part of the structure of TDF, and I would like to serve there, to maintain the high standard, and diversity that we have among members. I already have

[tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government

2014-08-19 Thread Owen Genat
This http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611 recent Süddeutsche article (German text - English version via Google Translate here

Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government

2014-08-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Owen, Nothing is done nor decided. I understand the city council does not share the mayor's point of view. From what it looks like it is a political issue that uses technical arguments. Best,. Charles. On 19 août 2014 10:22:44 CEST, Owen Genat owen.ge...@gmail.com wrote: This

[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government

2014-08-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/08/14 09:22, Owen Genat wrote: This http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611 recent Süddeutsche article (German text - English version via Google Translate here

[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government

2014-08-19 Thread Lothar Becker
Hi Owen, Charles is right, there seems to be something like a political deal between the new major and the headquarter of Microsoft which is to move from near Munich to Munich itself as heise mentioned in its article: http://tinyurl.com/k4aumnt Well, this discussion get a bad momentum, some