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Minutes 2015-08-19
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), Eliane Domingos
de Sousa (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Michael Meeks (Board of
Directors), Fridrich Strba (Board of Directors), Joel Madero (Board of
Directors), Andreas Mantke (Board of Directors), Eike Rathke (Deputy
Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors),
Florian Effenberger (Executive Director), Italo Vignoli, Sophie Gautier.
Representations: Eike is representing Bjoern
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 7 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.
Previous meeting minutes are published.
The call is quorate.
From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 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.
* Status of Lo-conf (how the registration are going, how is the program
going, what is the return/rate of the 'invitation' program) (Norbert)
+ registrations: 97 persons as of today
+ program: most of the talks have been accepted, speakers already
informed, some talks are still under discussion
+ invitations: still waiting for feedback (17 persons), we are
closed to reach the budget
75k covered so far
AI: + Sophie to send the list to core@
Final roll call: Florian, Michael, Eike, Sophie, Joel, Thorsten,
Andreas, Eliane, Fridrich, Italo
Ending time: 17:15 CEST
Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board)
Sophie Gautier (keeper of the minutes)