BoD minutes from 2013-11-27

Hello,

attached are the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on November 27th.

This message is to be archived by the BoD and its deputies.

Florian

Minutes 2013-11-27

The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
Call Minutes

Location: Phone conference room

Keeper of the minutes: Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors)
Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board)

Attending: Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Cáolan McNamara (Board of Directors), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Björn Michaelsen (Board of Directors), Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors)

Representation: None

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.

The meeting commences at 16:05 UTC.

1. Report on the application for webdesigner

Florian reports that the call for application will result in a contract soon, to avoid delays in the work done by Charles on the web site redesign.

2. Discussion RedMine web tool

Discussion: Florian outlines the options, proposes to test further and see where the tool fits our needs.

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The meeting adjournes at 16:30 UTC.

End of agenda, no additions.

Attending at the end of the meeting: Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Cáolan McNamara (Board of Directors), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Björn Michaelsen (Board of Directors), Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors)

Meeting minutes approved:

Olivier Hallot, Keeper of the minutes
Florian Effenberger, Session chair