BoD minutes from 2014-08-20

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find below the board meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on 2014-04-30.

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Sophie
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Minutes 2014-08-20
The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
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), Adam Fyne (Board of Directors), Bjoern Michaelsen
(Board of Directors), Fridrich Strba (Board of Directors), Norbert
Thiebaud (Deputy Board of Directors), Florian Effenberger (Executive
Director), Sophie Gautier.

Representation: Norbert Thiebaud representing Eliane Domingos de Sousa

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 6 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 15:00 UTC. It was held partly in public and
partly in private as the board saw a need for confidentiality during
discussions. The results are now being made public in accordance with
our statutes.

Public part
1. LibOCon status update (Sophie)
We have around a hundred registrations. We will have a last review
meeting tomorrow afternoon with the local team. There is still one talk
pending to be added by the Program Committee.

The call is terminated at 15h08. Attending at the end of the call:
Thorsten Behrens, Michael Meeks, Adam Fyne, Bjoern Michaelson, Fridrich
Strba, Norbert Thiebaud, Florian Effenberger, Sophie Gautier.