Membership Commitee meeting minutes 2016-09-28

Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting for 2016-Q4 filing.

1. Call to order

The meeting took place on 2016-09-28.

2. Roll Call

Membership Committee Members present: Cor Nouws, Gabriele di Ponzo,
Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco, Katarina Bubli Behrens, Miklos Vajna
Deputy embers present: Stephan Bergmann, Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn (after 10
minutes)
Five MC members present -> we are quorate

3. Vote for chairman role.

According to the TDF statues the Membership Committee choses a chair
person. Cor is willing do it for now, and Bubli volunteers in the
long-run, but not yet. Nobody objects, thus Cor is chosen as chairman.

4. Agree on MC-member on Duty

One person of the Membership Committee has to take the lead in day to
day handling of handling of applications, the 'MC-member on Duty'.
Gabriele & Cor will do it for now and Gustavo is happy to help as well.
Cor wants to hand it over in a about a month.

5. New Members

The Membership Committee has received Membership Applications since the
last review of the Membership Rolls, has reviewed these Applications in
light of the requirement as defined in the Statutes of The Document
Foundation, and has decided that the following persons be granted the
status of Member of The Document Foundation, for a period of 1 (one)
year effective the first day of the fourth quarter of 2016:

Lothar K. Becker
Giuseppe Castagno
Chrystina Pelizer
Emma Pietrafesa
Stefan Weiberg
Vasily Melenchuk
Modestas Rimkus
Mike Saunders
Arun Budea
Jean-Philippe Mengual
Timur Gadžo
Anxhelo Lushka
Rob Westein
Jona Azizaj
Zdeněk Crhonek
Eric Ficheux

Approved by unanimous roll call vote.

6. Membership Renewals

The Membership Committee has received Membership Renewal
requests since the last review of the Membership Rolls. Memberships
that are not renewed in a timely manner are deemed to have lapsed.
The Membership Committee has reviewed these Renewal requests in
light of the requirement as defined in the Statutes of The Document
Foundation and decided that the following persons have their status
of Member of The Document Foundation extended until the end of the
third quarter of 2017.

Christophe Cazin
Leo Moons
Vitorio Furusho
Christina Roßmanith
Stuart Swales
Stephan Bergmann
Arnaud Versini
Eike Rathke
Kees Kriek
João Mac-Cormick
Pierre-Yves Samyn
Gabor Kelemen
Adriano Afonso
Joel Madero
Zeki Bildirici
Elton Chung
Mihovil Stanić
Diego Maniacco
Osvaldo Gervasi
Stefano Paggetti
Matteo Casalin
Gabriele Ponzo
Andrea Castellani
Giordano Alborghetti
Paolo Pelloni
Walter Pape
Yousuf Philips
Dennis Roczek
Laurent Balland-Poirier
Pranav Kant
Ashod Nakashian
Niklas Johansson
Henry Castro
Marco Cecchetti
Tiago Carrondo
Belinda Dibra

Approved by unanimous roll call vote.

7. Adjournment

All business being concluded, the meeting was closed on 2016-09-28.

Meeting minutes approved:

Miklos Vajna Keeper of the minutes
Cor Nouws Chairman