As one of its tasks, the current board is looking into decisions and meeting minutes taken in the past that were not yet published according to our statutes. What follows are previously private minutes from the 2022-07-25 meeting of the previous board, which are now made public. Some elements in the minutes might be redacted as there is a need for confidentiality, or as individuals are mentioned in specific contexts.
Disclaimer: The following private minutes from the previous board are published as is. They have not necessarily been confirmed by the respective session’s chairperson or keeper of the minutes, nor approved by the respective board.
6a. step down of Caolan
- please shout early if any frustration is coming up
- [REDACTED: very personal statement]
- any chance to revert his decision? (Gabriel)
- his decision seems very clear (Cor)
- Gabor to become full director (Thorsten)
- elect a deputy chair (Thorsten)
- need to improve communication
- not unlimited patience and energy for everyone (Thorsten)
- check procedures with Florian
7. Discuss: CoC incident and how to move forward (Caolán McNamara, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR and legal topics.
If possible, give update on progress & timeline. See card board/30/card/187 for the main process.
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Status Report: [REDACTED: sensitive HR topic] (Florian Effenberger, Stephan Ficht, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR, tax and legal topics. -
Vote, Discuss: Update [REDACTED: sensitive discussions about a potential AB membership, that ultimately did not happen] / AB membership (Florian Effenberger, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: contract negotiation.Re-visit and decide on first annual fee (answer from [REDACTED] pending).
Proposal:
pending commitment to contribute developers, invoice non-contributing fee of EUR 1000.00Update from Florian: Didn’t hear anything back from [REDACTED] yet. Last contact a month ago, just poked him again.
AI Thorsten: turn this into email vote, once clarified with Florian if we can vote
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Status Report: Hiring web developer (Florian Effenberger, 5 mins)
Reason for privacy: HR, tax and legal topics.- Job posting live for a few days. Three applicants (names unknown in the community), will likely invite one of them for an interview and drop the other two.
- three applicants so far (Thorsten)
- perhaps advertise more widely? FSFE & Foundations list
- make use of an agency? (Kendy)
- eg. https://lever.co?
- explore various ideas
- eg. stackoverflow jobs? (Thorsten)
- posted on TDFs linkedin page? (Gabor)
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Discuss: Last minute item(s) (tdf-board, 5 mins)
Rationale: if there is time left, and anything is popping up after sending the agenda
- legal topics
- need to wait to aftermath of step down of Caolan
The private meeting ends at 16:48 UTC / 18:48 Berlin time.