The Document Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting 2022-11-14
Meeting Minutes
Location: Jitsi
Session chair: Thorsten Behrens
Keeper of the minutes: Stephan Ficht
In the meeting:
Board Members - Thorsten Behrens, Paolo Vecchi, Cor Nouws, Lazslo Nemeth, Gabor Kelemen, Emiliano Vavassori
Board Deputy Members -
Membership Committee Members -
Membership Committee Substitute Members -
Community - T.K.
Team - Ilmari Lauhakangas, Stephan Ficht, Florian Effenberger, Guilhem Moulin, Hossein Nourikhah
Representation: None
The Board of Directors at time of the call consists of 6 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 or represented in 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 meeting 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.
Any updates regarding director affiliations?
* no changes, current affiliations see election page:
https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2021-board/candidates.html
* Lázsló changes affiliation to his own company, dropping NISZ
Would any of the directors present need to declare an interest, for any of the listed agenda items?
* topic #5: Thorsten, Cor, Gabor
The public meeting commences at 17:05 UTC / 18:05 Berlin time.
## AGENDA
### Public Part
1. Answering questions from the community (tdf-board, 5 mins)
Rationale: Provide an opportunity for the community to ask
questions to the board and about TDF
* any q.? (Thorsten)
* none
2. Status Report, Discuss: Merged developer proposal (tdf-board, kendy, Paolo Vecchi, 5 mins)
* update on merged proposal
* further discussions, if needed
* otherwise, re-evaluate our approach.
* some updates
* proposal completed (Paolo)
* there was only one last sentence left to deal with
* but is covered by the agreed text in page one
* so I believe the proposal should be voted
* I'm still missing information (Cor)
* asked comments from Mike