[previous private MINUTES] 2024-02-05 (in person)

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 2024-02-05 (in person) 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.

ICAB, monday Feb 5 2024

present:

  • Thorsten, board
  • Emiliano, board
  • Paolo, board/elected
  • Marina, MC
  • Gabriele, MC
  • Gustavo, MC
  • JJ, team
  • cloph, team
  • Xisco, team
  • Eliane, elected
  • Heiko, team
  • Michael W, team
  • Sophie, team/elected
  • Florian, team
  • Osvaldo, elected
  • Hossein, team
  • Stephan, team
  • Olivier, team
  • Shinji, MC
  • Laszlo, board/elected
  • Gabor, board
  • Balázs, MC
  • Cor, board
  • Gabriel, board dep
  • Björn, elected
  • Eike, elected

remote:

  • Miklos Vajna, MC
  • Ilmari, team
  • Stéphane, team
  • Guilhem, team
  • Italo, team/elected

missing:

  • Simon, elected (joins at 14:00)

starting at 10:58 CET

  • discussion about next LibOCon

  • plus factor ~2.5 when going to an other continent, eg Asia, South America

  • FOSDEM '24 booth

    • payment device was a success (day1: ~1.400 € / day2: ~900 €)
    • be more visible
    • big screen (rent?)
    • roll ups
  • improve contact (Olivier)

    • people were interested
    • eg have small poll available
    • conversion with EU, eg wrt interoperability act (Paolo)

break at 1220 till 1400

  • relation issues
  • improve broken relations (Florian)
    • MC survey
  • big wall between community and governance (Marina)
  • strategic goals
    • going in circles, nothing new since a long time (Florian)
    • how to get more dynamics? (Cor)
    • counting ~2 years starting from Berlin BoD meeting (Florian)
    • want reflect why late here (Florian)
    • people busy w other things (Olivier)
    • too numerous goals to be implemented
    • present one after the other to the community
    • not all at the same time
    • people need to be accompanied
    • goals from Milan still valid (Olivier)
    • define objectives/milestones (Simon)
    • focus on 2 or three (Björn)
    • board did not follow up to achieve strategy goals (Paolo)
  • New-Era Manifesto > Proposal of New-Era Manifesto
    • controversial discusssion
  • relation issues
    • proposing town hall meetings (Simon)
    • proposing the BoD joining local meetings (Marina)
    • respect timezones (Gustavo)
    • different schemes for local communities (Shinji)
  • reaching agreements (Hossein)
  • growing the community (15:30)
  • TUXEDO collaboration (Marina)

break at 1615 till 16:55

  • LibOCon 2024, options

    • [REDACTED: name of potential candidate] CW 41
    • Luxembourg
  • BlueAngel certification (Thorsten)

    • environmental friendly cert.
    • needs some measurement
    • open source is big bonus
  • board policy

    • extremely slow progress (Cor)
    • hopefully sth available next week
    • then hand over to new board
    • update within a few weeks or even months
    • who is ‘we’ that contracted the law firm
  • developer hiring

    • potential candidate, from [REDACTED: name of country]
    • [REDACTED: sensitive HR topic]
    • 25 applicants
    • not everybody did an easy hack provided
    • [REDACTED: sensitive HR topic]
  • team issues

meeting ends at 18:20 CET