Hello,
find attached the meeting minutes from the BoD meeting on July 11th.
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Florian
The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
Call Minutes
Location: Phone conference room
Keeper of the minutes: Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors)
Session chair: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board)
Attending: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Caolan McNamara (Board of Directors), Charles Schulz (Board of Directors), Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors), Björn Michaelsen (Board of Directors Deputy)
Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chairman are in the call. One of them 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 invitation to the call has been in time, fulfilling all formal requirements.
The call is quorate.
From now on, a quorum can be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.
The meeting commences at 15:12 UTC
1. Joining Transparency International
Thorsten Behrens is proposing to join Transparency International, an organization with the mission of stopping corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.
The proposal is approved with 7 votes.
2. Board Meeting at the LibreOffice Conference
Florian Effenberger tells to the Board of Directors that there will be a face-to-face board meeting at the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, on October 16. This will comply with the foundation statutes.
3. Discussion about LibreOffice Conference
The members of the board of directors discuss about various issues related to the Berlin conference, with a special attention to travel and
lodging costs.
End of agenda, no additions.
Attending to the end of the meeting: Florian Effenberger (Chairman of the Board), Thorsten Behrens (Deputy Chairman of the Board), Olivier Hallot (Board of Directors), Michael Meeks (Board of Directors), Caolan McNamara (Board of Directors), Charles Schulz (Board of Directors), Italo Vignoli (Board of Directors), Björn Michaelsen (Board of Directors Deputy)
The meeting adjournes at 15:26 UTC
Meeting minutes approved:
Italo Vignoli, Keeper of the minutes
Florian Effenberger, Session chair