[board-discuss] Board of Directors Meeting 2019-07-18

The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting 2019-07-18
Call Minutes

Date: 2019-07-18
Location: Jitsi

Session chair: Marina Latini
Keeper of the minutes: Florian Effenberger

In the call: Franklin (board), Marina (chairwoman), Florian (ED), 
Thorsten (board), Kendy (deputy), Björn (deputy chairman), Cor (board)
Representation: Kendy for Michael

Chairwoman of the Board is in the call. One of the Chairwoman or Deputy 
Chairman 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 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 and invitation happened in time. From now on, 
motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those 
remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 4.

The meeting commences at 14:07 Berlin time.

Public part:

1. info: evaluation of the proposals for Almeria (Marina, 5 minutes)
https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/projects/libocon/wiki/Talk_proposals
   + 84 proposals in total, quite nice
   + AI Thorsten: file GSoC panel
   + CfP deadline was mid-July
   + trying to accomodate eligible submissions as much as possible
   + people to book their flights soon
   + we might need more budget, Florian to follow-up via mail

Bjoern joins 14:10

2. discuss: new Certification Category discussion (Michael, 10 minutes)
   + Deferring to next time

Public call ends 14:12 Berlin time.

Marina Latini (Session chair)
Florian Effenberger (Keeper of the minutes)

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