Agenda for TDF board meeting on Friday, August 28th at 1300 Berlin time (UTC+2)

Dear community,

find below the agenda for our

-> TDF board meeting with a public part, and followed by a private part -> on Friday, August 28th at 1300 Berlin time

For time zone conversion, see e.g.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20200828T13&p1=37&p2=136&p3=241&p4=589

-> at https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/TDFBoard

We meet on jitsi, and please, if possible use Chrome browser and do not use video and until not speaking up please mute.

-> AGENDA:

Public Part

1. Q&A: Answering Questions from the community (All, max. 10 min)
    Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions to the board and about TDF.

2. Inform & Discuss: status of running tenders, discuss again handling pending tenders in the queue (Daniel, All 10 min)
    Rationale: Status quo, defining further procedure with other tender tasks

    AI from last board meeting:
    * Clarification of the various budget items (Florian)
    * COSM need of tendering clarification, and if drafting the text (Thorsten)

    Redmine ticket(s):

    KG22.01.1 - Two more tenders signed in 6 months (Florian)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3108
    Status: Two signed, two more tendered, one more pending

    KG22.01.2 - Two more tenders delivered in 1 year (Florian)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3109
    Status: Two signed, two more tendered, one more pending

    KG22.02.1 - Hire an effective & skilled development mentor (Florian)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3112
    Status: Tender published. Open until September 15. Feedback by October 30.

3. Discuss & Organize: Status & further steps in the subgroups with: a) marketing plan b) tender streamlining c)app store offering TDF d) TM licensing (All 10 min)
    Rationale: Discuss and identify the next steps
    Redmine ticket(s): b) see above d)AI

    AI from last board meeting:
    * making a redmine ticket for d) with specification what is beside the marketing plan the purpose of the subgroup (defining how to deal with the outrunning licence agreements by end of September)

    Tickets for a)
    LibreOffice 7.0/7.1 marketing plan (Paolo)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3206
    Status: Paolo, Franklin, Michael, Thorsten, Mike, Italo continue working on this

    Tickets for c)
    form sub-group to work out and publish business entity proposals (Paolo)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3294
    Status: Pending feedback

    KG22.08.1 - Agree on entity form with legal backing
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3130
    Status: Currently in discussion

    KG22.08.2 - Have a majoriy of the stakeholder agreeing on the plan
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3131
    Status: Currently collecting/discussing plans and proposals

    KG22.08.3 - Establish entity and start execution
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3132
    Status: Stalled until decision on entity has been taken

    KG22.08.4 - Align marketing with TDC
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3133
    Status: Stalled until business entity is in place

4. Inform & Discuss: Status of redmine tickets of last board meetings (Lothar, Stephan/Florian, All 5 min)
    Rationale: Clarifying what is pending, questions to reports in redmine tickets, and what todo, who is caring, until when, it is not the intention to speak about all, but the important or urgent ones

    Just to be discussed if any news on:

    Membership Committee election (Florian)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/803
    Status: Started. Nomination phase until August 27. Election afterwards.

    coordination of LibOCon internal meetings (Sophie)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3293
    Status: Sophie asking the groups. MC wants to have a meeting, team not during that week. Ask BoD during their next call what they prefer.

    KG22.05.1 - Focused on new / younger contributors (Mike)
    https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3118
    Status: In progress

    KG22.05.2 - More creative / pro-active marketing + emphasising our unique strengths (Mike)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3119
    Status: Pending marketing plan, which is currently in discussion

    KG22.06.1 - Team to present workshop at LibOCon 2020 (Ilmari)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3123
    Status: Workshop will be scheduled for LibOCon 2020

    KG22.06.2 - Decision yes/no/where to go by LibOCon 2021
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3124
    Status: Scheduled for LibOCon next year

    KG22.07.1 - Write programme description (Italo)
    URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3126
    Status: Pending. Florian got contact to Berlin university, Italo will follow-up with them too.

Agenda items of private part

5. Inform & Discuss: Open issues with the licence inquiry of an Italian Company about LibreOffice online (Florian, all 10min)
    Reason why in private: confidential information
    Rational: evaluation and further steps

6. Inform & Discuss: wealth management for foundation capital stock, evaluating the two proposals, further steps (Lothar, board members 5min)
    Reason why in private: confidential information about finance decision making
    Rational: evaluation and further steps, do we need a presentation from both banks in a board meeting?

7. Inform & Discuss: Sort out pending private redmine tickets of last private board meetings (Stephan, board members 5 min)
    Reason why in private: in the nature of the private tickets
    Rational: Clarifying what is pending, and what to do, who is caring, until when, it is not the intention to speak about all, but the important or urgent ones, do we need still a Redmine ticket for it?