Board of Directors Meeting 2017-03-27

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Board of Directors Meeting 2017-03-27
Call Minutes

Location: Phone Conference Room

Session chair: Marina Latini
Keeper of the minutes: Michael Meeks

In the call: Norbert (Deputy), Florian (ED), Michael (Deputy Chair), Marina (Chair), Simon (Board), Kendy (Board)
Representation: Norbert for Osvaldo

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 the 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 5 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, motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 3.

The meeting commences at 17:04 Berlin time.

Public agenda:

1. Discuss: Budget Ranking (Florian)

Voting on the special projects buckets.
     + some budget ranking done - with some absences.
     + have around Eur 100k or so for the ranking.
     + ranked pieces
     + missing bits ?
     + week-long hack-fest at a remote location (Marina)
         + travel in the community / marketing budget ? (Norbert)
             + and/or left over from the conference.
     + other tasks to discuss.

Public call ends at 17:20 Berlin time.

Marina Latini (Session chair)
Michael Meeks (Keeper of the minutes)