[VOTE] New proposal for hiring in-house developers.

[laszlo.nemeth]

Dear Cor, board and TDF members,

Dear people,

Thanks for the constructive feedback on the proposal.
Various changes applied, I now call a vote for the resolution below.

Your response within 72 hours from now is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Cor

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## TDF Developer Hiring Resolution 2022

"Whereas,

- with TDF stewarding, among other things, a well-working symbiosis of
  various companies and volunteer developers inside of the LibreOffice
  community;

- given that in the current situation, there are certain areas where
  extra developers can add value with additional activities, that
  complement the existing contributions;

- with this being an ongoing need;

Therefore the board resolves that:

- TDF will seek to hire a developer(s);

- who will report to the ED as a regular team member, and consult weekly
  with the ESC, which will oversee the technical direction of the work;

- who will work in such a way, that both volunteer and ecosystem peers
  regard them as helpful, supportive and complementing their own work;

- for whom as the initial areas of work, the board identifies
  improving RTL/CTL writing support and accessibility for LibreOffice;
  as well as mentoring new volunteers in these specific areas.
  After that, depending on skills available, Writer tables, Base,
  general regression fixing, Draw, and Math are the next focus areas;

- thus, there will be two job postings, with requirements matching the
  initial focus areas listed above, and one or two developers will be
  hired initially;

- after 6, and after 9 months following the developers starting their
  work, the board will do an assessment of the situation and results.

Requirements for the candidates:

* Very good C++ development skills;
* Proven experience with Accessibility and/or RTL/CTL, additional CJK
  experience is a strong plus;
* Love for open source;
* Team players;
* Experience with LibreOffice development is a plus.

Footnote: for a requirements analysis on the need for hiring
developers, please refer to information on the pages 3-8 of the
abandoned dev proposal:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/qofn646Jg6bmPYB "

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+1

Many thanks to all the contributors of this and the abandoned proposals!

Best regards,
László

P.S. I have a While I understand

Thanks to Kendy and Paolo, and all of the contributors, who
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[stephan.ficht]

Hi,

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Foreword:
I here speak in my capacity as a Member of the Board of Trustees.

Why do you want brought this to the list tdf-internal for further discussion? Something that here should be hide away from now on?

AFAICS until now an appropriate discussion (board-discuss!) and expression of several opinions on the subject.

Best
Stephan

[gmasei]

+1

Best,
Gabriel

[Ayhan_YALCINSOY]

+1
Thanks for your efforts.

Ayhan YALÇINSOY, Member of the Board of Directors
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

[cornouws]

The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat
holders (not including deputies). In order to be quorate, the vote
needs to have 1/2 or more of the Board of Directors members, which
gives 4.

A total of 7 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote.

The vote is quorate.

A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.

Result of vote: 5 approvals, 2 abstains, 0 disapprovals.
Decision: The proposal has been accepted.

One deputy supports the motion.

[NB: Rest assured, I would say, that we took notice of the discussion.]

[andreasma]

Hi all,

because there are three directors with a CoI (as explained already) the
three votes of this directors a null.

Thus there are only two valid approvals and two abstain. Because at
least four members (those without a CoI) participated the majority of
votes is 3.

Because only two valid approvals were given, the proposal was disapproved.

Regards,
Andreas

[cornouws]

dear people,

Let me add the positive news to this discussion that TDF will be hiring two experienced developers, as a result from the board’s approval of the above proposal!
More of course soon.
Cor