Dear members of The Document Foundation,
Dear community,
we would like to invite you to join the public part (~ 30
minutes) of the
Board of Directors meeting on Saturday, January 30
at 10:00 UTC/11:00 Berlin time
at https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard
This provides a great opportunity to be informed about the items to be
discussed and express your thoughts and questions to enrich the debate.
The public part of the agenda is as follows:
1. Welcome, introduction, invitation, representation and quorum
(Lothar/Franklin, 5 minutes)
Presentation of the agenda, confirmation of proper invitation, handle
representation statements and determine quorum.
2. Update on key goals (Florian, 15 minutes)
An update on the various key goals, where we stand and what the next
steps are.
1. Streamline tendering process, sign two tenders and get them
delivered (Nicolas, Lothar, Florian)
2. Hire development mentor, grow pool of code committers (all)
3. Grow non-coding community (Ilmari, Mike)
4. (Virtual) Hackfests where coders and non-coders meet (Mike, Ilmari)
5. Marketing plan, younger contributors, OpenOffice users (Italo, Mike)
6. Evaluating tooling, e.g. Discourse for AskBot, incl. tools for
participation improvement (Sophie, Ilmari)
7. Campus program for student ambassadors (Italo)
8. Business entity (Paolo, Thorsten, Michael)
3. Overview on downloads, budget and donations (Florian, Mike, Italo, 5
minutes)
Update on our budget, download numbers and the status of donations.
4. Various, quick questions and answers, closing of the public part, and
invitation to next public board meeting (5 minutes)
A few minutes for questions and answers. Everyone is invited to
continue the discussion in the next public board meeting on February 12.
Happy to meet you on Saturday!
Best regards
Stephan