MC meeting minutes 2017-03-23

Minutes of the Membership Committee meeting for 2017-Q2 filing.

Present:

1. Call to order & Roll Call

The meeting took place on 2017-03-23.
Membership Committee Members present: Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco, Katarina
Bubli Behrens, Miklos Vajna, Stephan Bergmann, Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn, Cor
Nouws
Four members + two deputies present -> we are quorate

2. New Members

The Membership Committee has received Membership Applications since the
last review of the Membership Rolls, has reviewed these Applications in
light of the requirement as defined in the Statutes of The Document
Foundation, and has decided that the following persons be granted the
status of Member of The Document Foundation, for a period of 1 (one)
year effective the first day of the second quarter of 2017:

Chandrakant Dhutadmal
Emiliano Vavassori
Jaskaran Veer Singh

Approved by unanimous roll call vote.

3. Membership Renewals

The Membership Committee has received Membership Renewal
requests since the last review of the Membership Rolls. Memberships
that are not renewed in a timely manner are deemed to have lapsed.
The Membership Committee has reviewed these Renewal requests in
light of the requirement as defined in the Statutes of The Document
Foundation and decided that the following persons have their status
of Member of The Document Foundation extended until the end of the
fourth quarter of 2017.

Vu Hung Nguyen
Xisco Faulí Tarazona
Olav Dahlum
Cheng-Chia Tseng
Yaron Shahrabani
Milos Sramek
Donald Evan Rogers
Christopher M. Penalver
Winfried Donkers
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
Timothy Lungstrom
David Ostrovsky
Stephan van den Akker
Naruhiko Ogasawara
Shinji Enoki
Enio Gemmo
Jacobo Aragunde Pérez
Miguel Ángel Ríos Vázquez
Edmund Laugasson
Juergen Funk
Giuseppe Vizziello
Jan Iversen
Armin Le Grand
Franklin Weng
Po-Yen Huang
Marco Pinto
Mark Hung

Approved by unanimous roll call vote.

4 Encourage more people to join TDF and become member
  We may split this in parts:
  - gather relevant data &
  - collect names from data
    - happy to came up with a script for non-member developers (Miklos)
      - Jan Iversen already has something/shared info before with the MC
    - social media from Italo/Sophie (Bubli)
    - translations -- talk to Cloph (Cor)
      - also will complain about the missing out-of-the-box stats
    - documentation (Bubli)
    - QA -- talk to Xisco (Miklos)
    - design -- talk to Heiko (Cor)
  - contact the potential candidates
    - when there is a list of candidates, put it here on the pad, so MC
      members can take the ones who they know
  - April 13 -- please make progress in 3 weeks there and share on
    the list.

  Other ideas:
  - Mike will create a page with legal text explaining why to become a
    member.
  - Cor will came up with something similar, but that can be parsed by
    a human.
  - Page on website with short text and links to member interviews?
  - Cor & Bubli also have a text that can be used as a template to
    invite somebody. Share on the list (Cor, Bubli)

5 Adjourning

All business being concluded, the meeting was closed on 2017-03-23

Meeting minutes approved:

Miklos Vajna Keeper of the minutes
Cor Nouws Chair man