Hello,
find below the private board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-03-05.
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Florian
Minutes 2014-03-05
The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
Private 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), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Bjoern Michaelsen (Board of Directors), Fridrich Strba (Board of Directors), Adam Fyne (Board of Directors), Andreas Mantke (Deputy Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Eike Rathke (Deputy Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Executive Director).
Representation:
Andreas Mantke representing Eliane Domingos de Sousa
Eike Rathke representing Joel Madero
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.
The call is quorate.
From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.
Some items were discussed in private, as the board saw a need for confidentiality during discussions. The results are now being made public in accordance with our statutes. Agenda items 1-8 have been discussed in public before.
9. Linuxtag 2014
Proposal and call for project are now, it will be discussed on the core list, and then we will send in a proposal for a workshop in the evening.
10. Fridrich's proposal
Proposal: Host a formal project namend Document Liberation project as official part of TDF. Requirements are domain names, web and mail infrastructure.
Vote: 6 out of 7 (Fridrich abstained)
Result: Proposal approved.
Meeting adjourned at 17:00 UTC
Attending at the end of the meeting: Thorsten Behrens (Chairman of the Board), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Bjoern Michaelsen (Board of Directors), Fridrich Strba (Board of Directors), Adam Fyne (Board of Directors), Andreas Mantke (Deputy Board of Directors), Norbert Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Eike Rathke (Deputy Board of Directors) Florian Effenberger (Executive Director).
Thorsten Behrens (Session chair)
Sophie Gautier (Keeper of the minutes)