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find below the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-08-06.
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Sophie
Minutes 2014-08-06
The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
Call Minutes
Location: Phone Conference Room
Session chair: Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board)
Keeper of the minutes: Sophie Gautier
In the call: Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board), Joel Madero
(Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Eike
Rathke (Deputy Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Executive
Director), Sophie Gautier.
Representation: Eike Rathke representing Eliane Domingos de Sousa,
Norbert Thiebaud representing Michael Meeks
Chairman of the Board is in the call. One of the Chairman or Deputy 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 4 Board of
Directors members or their representatives 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.
From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 3 votes.
The meeting commences at 15:05 UTC. It was held partly in public and
partly in private as the board saw a need for confidentiality during
discussions. The results are now being made public in accordance with
our statutes.
1. LibOCon status update (Sophie)
The program is almost set now, just small arrangements to do, we should
have a keynote from Jeremy Allison, Matthias Stürmer is talking to him
about that. The local team is used to organize events, so they are
handling things really well
Registrations are going on, today we have 80 registered.
2. LibOCon 2015
We have several informal applications, we will follow up with them on
mid august.
The call is terminated at 15h08. Attending at the end of the call:
Thorsten Behrens, Joel Madero, Norbert Thiebaud, Florian Effenberger,
Sophie Gautier