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 2022-12-19 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.
Audit
- plan earlier, to have a budget ready - i.e. rough outline by FOSDEM, latest (Florian)
Tendering
- solve first before tendering (Florian)
- proposal from to help the process (Paolo)
- agreed/discussed w Florian, Mike Sch.? (Thorsten)
- yes (Paolo)
- need contracting before disclose
- agreed that there were no minutes
- concerns that this is a very german problem (Thorsten)
- expert’s experience in public procurements working in cooperation with Mike to ensure Statutes and German regulations are included in the process (Paolo)
- legal oversight group (Thorsten)
- good to get expertise here (Cor)
- planning the budget
- able to improve processes
- be careful w budget before have not finished the tendering process
- full budget is an issues (Paolo)
- have a look to the most urgent issues (Florian)
- how to start without tainting it
- don’t want hear accusations here (Thorsten)
- nonsense of hiring w other companies
- could put a lot of energy in fighting
- important to have balanced set up legal working group
- technical expertise
- check w ESC
- not useful to have budget w/out tendering
- TDF needs it fixed for TDF
- asked several times to have same process for all (Paolo)
- perception of being some more equal than others
- issue how ESC work
- working on technical details
- proposal of issues that need to be fixed
- old set up didn’t benefit to TDF (Throsten)
- Kendy resigned (Paolo)
- lost of time
- had a group of 3 close to devs (Thorsten)
- not trusted
- not apropriate to exclude them
- issue w the composition (Cor)
- clear proposal now
- what is the situation here
- keep in mind Laszlo and Gabor wanted to be in the team (Paolo)
- over night they changed their mind
- disregarding proposal vetted (Thorsten)
- sitting with ecosystem comp. is obvious
- deal w precedural issues (Paolo)
- evaluation technical proposals (Thorsten)
- no way to exclude perhaps half of ESC
- lawyers to figure out
- eg. everyone find it a brilliant idea (Paolo)
- but one have to avoid perception of CoI
- so how to bring it in?
- no need to repeat endlessly the same
- is noted (Thorsten)
- is advantage to have this knowledge in ESC (Cor)
- what added value from you Emiliano/Paolo? (Thorsten)
- required number of calls
- need people w first hand knowledge
- logic, impartial approach is needed (Paolo)
- conflicted board members during discussion
- very few interaction that is not the point
- imposition to have Laszlo/Gabor
- don’t see your vote, Emiliano (Thorsten)
- any issue or unfortunate timing)
- hasn’t time to check last version (Emiliano)
- after 6 months still no understanding of what he have to do and not to do
- was told my action is not trusted
- my fault now?
- quite frustrated
- apologies, I take this back (Thorsten)
- think the two of us are not far
- why did you put that to vote (Emiliano)
- and over the weekend
- you have the power and the votes on your side
- it’s not about the text
- discussing how to go around this text
- only millimeters of disense (Thorsten)
- extremely frustrated (Emiliano)
- want to see this moving (Thorsten)
- we are missing the point (Emiliano)
- disagreing on several points
- see no improvements
- spelling a few diffeernces (Cor)
- see my email
- imposition is not an agreement (Paolo)
- since 6 months
- Thorsten/Cor delaying
- imposed a secret agreement I accepted hoping in improvements in behaviour
- you eliminated all my proposals from the text
- you imposed once again what you wanted and then you blamed me
- tell what needs changing (Thorsten)
- you are imposing stuff (Paolo)
- why secret agreement is needed?
- you Paolo attacking people (Thorsten)
- saying you not trust us (Emiliano/Paolo) (Paolo)
- that’s why you are imposing a secret agreement
- I would accept Laszlo and Gabriel in the group but not this secret agreement any more
- what is needed to get all behind the text? (Thorsten)
- as I’m being excluded again I might as well leave, goodbye (Paolo)
Paolo absent at 18:19 UTC
- finding a compromise (Emiliano)
- don’t understand you apologise
- happily apologise (Thorsten)
- how many of the remaining board is behind
- from what I see all behind it, not Paolo (Thorsten)
- re-run the vote
- with the group of four if one is against is not a blocker
- problem is quiet time ahead
- could vote on both topics till end of the week
- was even another vote at the weekend (Cor)
- adjourn (Thorsten)
- we have a good plan
2. Discussion: Status update strategic goals (all, 20 minutes)
Rationale: Discussion and follow-up from the items discussed in Berlin and
Milano
3. Discussion: Plans and initial budget ideas for 2023 (all, 20 minutes)
Rationale: The primary agenda item for this formal meeting is the discussion of the first draft of our 2023 budget, that we will finalize and approve early next year.
4. Discuss: Last minute item(s) (owner of the item, all 10 minutes)
The private meeting ends at 18:27 UTC / 19:27 Berlin time.