The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting 2019-07-18
Call Minutes
Location: Jitsi
Session chair: Marina Latini
Keeper of the minutes: Florian Effenberger
In the call: Franklin (board), Marina (chairwoman), Florian (ED), Thorsten (board), Kendy (deputy), Björn (deputy chairman), Cor (board)
Representation: Kendy for Michael
Chairwoman of the Board is in the call. One of the Chairwoman 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 6 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 call 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 14:07 Berlin time.
Public part:
1. info: evaluation of the proposals for Almeria (Marina, 5 minutes)
https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/projects/libocon/wiki/Talk_proposals
+ 84 proposals in total, quite nice
+ AI Thorsten: file GSoC panel
+ CfP deadline was mid-July
+ trying to accomodate eligible submissions as much as possible
+ people to book their flights soon
+ we might need more budget, Florian to follow-up via mail
Bjoern joins 14:10
2. discuss: new Certification Category discussion (Michael, 10 minutes)
+ Deferring to next time
Public call ends 14:12 Berlin time.
Marina Latini (Session chair)
Florian Effenberger (Keeper of the minutes)