[board-discuss] Signing for booth at OSCON
Our application for a booth in the Non-Profit Pavilion at OSCON has been approved. (Dates: July 23-25 for the booth; OSCON is July 22-26. Portland, Oregon, USA.) There is no cost to us for the booth. Who should sign the contract with O'Reilly on behalf of TDF? I am happy to do it if the Board authorises me to do so. The contract needs to be signed (online) by May 15 to confirm our space. I can provide a link to the contract to any Board member who wishes to read it. Regards, Jean Jean Hollis Weber
Re: [board-discuss] Using TDF lulu.com account to sell LibO official localized guides
On Wed, 9 May 2018 at 18:39 Luca Daghino @ Libero wrote: > Hello all, > > In the italian l10n team we are discussing how/whether to sell > (tendentially on lulu.com) localized versions of TDF libreoffice > official guides. > > We are evaluating different options, so we also would like to know if > it's eventually possible to use the TDF lulu.com account to sell these > guides. Obviously, in such a case, all profits would go to TDF. > > At the moment we have localized 4 guides [1], so we could start selling > these ones; and add other guides that we are still working on. > > Is this feasible? > > Thanks for any info/suggestions :) > > [1] https://documentation.libreoffice.org/it/documentazione-in-italiano/ > > > -- > Luca Daghino > - - - - - - - - > Icq/Licq/Gaim #175451007 > Debian Powered Linux Registered User #310800 at http://counter.li.org > No retreat baby no surrender > http://www.retenergie.it - coop di produttori e utilizzatori di energia > da fonti rinnovabili > tad evaarthamaatra-nirbhaasaM svaruupa-shuunyam iva samaadhiH > Sanskrit - Realize it's the common language ;-) > If TDF doesn’t want to publish them on their lulu account, Friends of OpenDocument would be interested. We sell the English language user guides and have sold some German ones as well. Profits go to whomever you want: your group, TDF, or other. — Jean Weber > >
[board-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Licensing for NEW documents
Oops, I sent this to a wrong address. Trying again. --Jean On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:00, Jean Weber wrote: > On the documentation list, I proposed changing the license for NEW > docs from the legacy licensing (carried over from the OOo user guides > that were revised for LO) to a different license. The proposal has > generated quite a bit of discussion. David Nelson suggested that we > should involve the Board in these discussions, so I am referencing the > thread involved. > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Licensing-for-NEW-documents-tp3536793p3536793.html > > --Jean Weber > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] FYI: money from sales of printed copies of user guides
This note is for your information; no action necessary. As well as working with the LibreOffice documentation team, I am also involved (as Secretary-Treasurer) with an Australia-based not-for-profit association, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., which handles the money raised from sales of printed copies of OOo and LO user guides and other books. We are currently holding around AUD9,000 (more than USD9,000, or around EUR7,250 at current exchange rates) in the (former) OOoAuthors account and around AUD1,000 in the LibreOffice Docs account. More comes in each month. Money from LO book sales is exclusively for LO use. In addition... With two communities (LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice) replacing the former OOo, and with a large number of the people who worked on OOo user guides now working with LO, it seems only fair that the money in the former OOoAuthors account be made available to LO as well as ApacheOO. Instead of giving the LO money to The Document Foundation for general expenses, we think it is better to make it available to cover expenses that The Document Foundation can't or won't deal with. Some examples might be the cost of marketing materials (including copies of the user guides) for tables at events, attendance at events aimed at potential and actual customers (librarians, educators, etc), or just about anything that would be valuable for spreading awareness and growing the community and the customer base. We don't have a very formal process for people to request money, but you would need to give enough info about what you want the money for, how much, who's involved, and so on, so the Friends of OpenDocument Inc's Management Committee can evaluate your request. BTW, we welcome new members; no charge to join. Info about membership is on the website, which is rarely updated except for financial statements and notices of meetings required by law (and the minutes of those meetings). --Jean Hollis Weber http://friendsofopendocument.com/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] T-shirts with LibreOffice logo
I want to produce some t-shirts with the LibreOffice logo (and the TDF subline) for me to wear at the conferences I'm attending in the US in July and August as a representative of TDF. May I have permission to do this? I note that this wiki page (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding) says the logo with TDF included is for official uses (people representing TDF), and another logo (without TDF) is for community uses. I would also like to make t-shirts with the community-use logo available for sale to the public, with all profits to TDF. I realise that others (including Simon Phipps) have made proposals for t-shirts and other "swag", but AFAIK these proposals are awaiting design input. If I am to have t-shirts for this forthcoming trip, I need to do something now... at least for my own use, if not for general sale. Thanks! --Jean
Re: [board-discuss] T-shirts with LibreOffice logo
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 11:49 +1000, Jean Weber a écrit : >> I want to produce some t-shirts with the LibreOffice logo (and the TDF >> subline) for me to wear at the conferences I'm attending in the US in >> July and August as a representative of TDF. May I have permission to >> do this? >> >> I note that this wiki page >> (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding) says the logo >> with TDF included is for official uses (people representing TDF), and >> another logo (without TDF) is for community uses. >> >> I would also like to make t-shirts with the community-use logo >> available for sale to the public, with all profits to TDF. >> >> I realise that others (including Simon Phipps) have made proposals for >> t-shirts and other "swag", but AFAIK these proposals are awaiting >> design input. If I am to have t-shirts for this forthcoming trip, I >> need to do something now... at least for my own use, if not for >> general sale. >> >> Thanks! >> >> --Jean >> > > +1 from my side, should we vote simply like this or what's the timeframe > for decision? > > best, > -- > Charles-H. Schulz I want to order some t-shirts with the official logo in the next day or two if possible. BTW, I plan to provide an official t-shirt to Simon as well. :-) And of course anyone else who wants one or more for use when acting as a rep for TDF/LO. --Jean
Re: [board-discuss] T-shirts with LibreOffice logo
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Jean, > > Jean Weber wrote on 2012-06-16 03:49: > >> I want to produce some t-shirts with the LibreOffice logo (and the TDF >> subline) for me to wear at the conferences I'm attending in the US in >> July and August as a representative of TDF. May I have permission to >> do this? > > > since your trip has been officially approved by the board, and you are > representing TDF, I see no issues with using the official logo, as long as > you don't sell the shirts. :) > Thanks, Florian. I have ordered some for me and some for Simon, who has also been approved as a rep for TDF at CLS & OSCON. :-) --Jean
[board-discuss] Conference sponsorship
I may have some sponsorship money for this year's LibreOffice conference, but it needs to be spent before 30 June. When is the necessary info about sponsorship levels, amounts, etc going to be available? --Jean
[board-discuss] Travel Expenses Reimbursement Policy
The Travel Expenses Reimbursement Policy (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel) appears to say that if one chooses not to fly the cheapest way, or chooses to stay at an expensive hotel, then no reimbursement at all will be allowed. I would think that the policy should say something like "only the cost of low-cost economy airfare will be reimbursed; if travellers choose a more expensive fare, they will be responsible for the difference in cost" and similar for the cost of accommodation. --Jean
Re: [board-discuss] Travel Expenses Reimbursement Policy
I usually search for the lowest cost fare and do a screen capture to document what I would have paid had I chosen to fly that way and book on that day. This would fit in with Simon's second wording suggestion, below, and the probable intent of the rule. Jean On 28/06/2012, at 1:06, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 27 Jun 2012, at 15:40, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> >> The policy though states that "TDF will reimburse or pay the cost... >> ...of the lowest coach class fare" - which I read that TDF does not >> insist on you actually booking coach. > > Of course, that statement is almost meaningless in today's air travel market. > There is no objective way to identify "the lowest coach class fare" for a > given journey. The market is dynamic and global; the price can change hourly; > there are no historical records; the prices available to you depend on your > booking system anyway. As written the statement helps no-one and merely > creates uncertainty for everyone involved, including TDF. > > It would be better to say: > "TDF will reimburse or pay the cost of your flight on condition you commit to > using the lowest cost coach fare reasonably available to you" > if that's what you mean, or > "TDF will contribute to your air travel costs an amount no more than the > lowest-cost coach fare it would be reasonable to buy, as agreed in advance > with the Board or its nominated agent" > if you actually are happy to contribute towards higher cost fares. > > S. > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] LibreOffice at OSCON & CLS
In a talk on Open Source Community Growth as a User Experience Problem, the LibreOffice easy hacks page was used as a good example of doing something right to make it easy for people to join the coding community, feel empowered, and stay. :-) My bright green LibreOffice shirt is attracting attention and questions. I have already picked up a lot of ideas for building and improving the docs team, from both the Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. I'll need to draft a plan to put some of these ideas into action, of course. I think you're going to get your money's worth from supporting me to attend. :-) Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [board-discuss] Request for TDF server to accommodate alfresco.libreoffice.org
If it makes any difference, I support this request. Jean Weber Documentation Team Leader On 08/08/2012, at 11:27, David Nelson wrote: > Hi guys, > > As you know, I have been operating an Alfresco platform for TDF since > around January 2011. This platform currently gets used by the docs > team, but would be a great tool for wider adoption in the project. > > Given the progress with CMIS implementation within LibreOffice, I feel > that it would now be a good move to have the Alfresco platform hosted > on a TDF-operated server. > > I'm willing to handle the move across, and to continue to administer > Alfresco as before (although there might well be new interest in > Alfresco from other LibO contributors in the near/immediate future, > and there may be more people willing to actively contribute to > maintaining the tool). > > It would require a VPS with about 15 Gigabytes hard disk storage and > 2.5 Gigabytes of memory. That's a slight increase on what I'm > currently providing (12 Gb disk and 2 Gb memory) to take account of an > anticipated increase in usage within the project. If traffic gets > heavy, anticipate an upgrade to at least 3Gb-4Gb, but probably 2.5 > will do the job fine right now. I'm currently providing a reasonably > high-performance server (dedicated hardware with no other traffic but > mine). > > I'd need full root access - certificate and password - and I'd plan to > use Ubuntu 12.04. After implementation is complete, we could then > revise the security of the server and scale back the access to sudo > for all admins. > > Would TDF be agreeable to / interested in this? > > I may show up at the next BoD confcall to discuss the matter, unless > we come to a conclusion one way or the other here instead. > > Anyway, all the best as ever, :-) > > -- > David Nelson > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] Nomination for Membership Committee
I nominate myself for the Membership Committee. My primary participation in TDF has been with the Documentation Team, which elected me as Team Leader earlier this year. I also participate in marketing (both the list and through promotional activities at conferences). I was an active member of the former OpenOffice.org project from 2004 until 2010, where I did more direct user support as well as documentation. I am not employed by any company or organisation, although I do serve as Secretary/Treasurer of an Australia-based not-for-profit community association, Friends of OpenDocument, Inc. I am also a member of other organisations, including the Open Source Initiative. Regards, Jean Hollis Weber -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] Alfresco
I'd like to thank the Board for agreeing to host the LO Alfresco site on TDF infrastructure if the Docs team wanted to use it. I don't know if David Nelson has informed you that he has taken down his LO Alfresco site after the Docs team failed to choose it as our CMS. How should LO deal with the error messages (site not found; page not found) that people will get if they go to http://alfresco.libreoffice.org/ or http://media.libreoffice.org/ ? Can we redirect those addresses to the main LO page? I am deleting references to those sites from the wiki and the LO website and other places as I find them, but no doubt there are links from other places, blogs, etc. --Jean
[board-discuss] Fwd: Alfresco (by PM)
Nino's suggestion is much better than mine. I guess I should file a ticket to have this done, unless someone else has already opened a ticket about the problem. (I can never find anything in any bugtracking system, and indeed have never attempted to use ours.) --Jean -- Forwarded message -- From: Nino Novak Date: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:08 AM Subject: Re: Alfresco (by PM) To: Jean Weber Jean, I'd suggest to not redirect automatically (as people normally don't realize such a redirect and might be surprised to end up somewhere different) but to leave the subdomain active and put a static index.html page there which explains that Alfresco is not used at the moment but work on LibreOffice Documentation primarily happens at odfauthors (and, of course provide a link to odfauthors and the Doc Wiki). Regards, Nino Am 06.09.2012 08:53 schrieb Jean Weber: > I'd like to thank the Board for agreeing to host the LO Alfresco site > on TDF infrastructure if the Docs team wanted to use it. > > I don't know if David Nelson has informed you that he has taken down > his LO Alfresco site after the Docs team failed to choose it as our > CMS. > > How should LO deal with the error messages (site not found; page not > found) that people will get if they go to > http://alfresco.libreoffice.org/ or http://media.libreoffice.org/ ? > Can we redirect those addresses to the main LO page? > > I am deleting references to those sites from the wiki and the LO > website and other places as I find them, but no doubt there are links > from other places, blogs, etc. > > --Jean > >
[board-discuss] Request for pre-approval of remimbursement of travel expenses for LiboCon
I request pre-approval of reminbursement of AUD 2000 (approx. EUR 1600 at today's exchange rate) towards my travel and accommodation expenses to attend the LibreOffice Conference in Berlin, at which I will be a speaker. $ 454 = accommodation in Berlin $1546 = contribution towards airfare For reference, the cheapest round-trip economy fare from Australia is around AUD 2150, plus extra cost of flights between where I live and an airport with flights to Europe. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Jean Jean Hollis Weber
[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-announce] Results of the 2012 Membership Committee election
Confirmed. Jean On 21/09/2012, at 17:48, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> The board declares the following Members of The Document Foundation >> elected into the Membership Committee: >> >> * Sophie Gautier >> * Fridrich Štrba >> * Eike Rathke >> * Cor Nouws >> * Jean Weber >> >> The board declares the following Members of The Document Foundation >> elected as deputy members of the Membership Committee: >> >> * Simon Phipps >> * Leif Lodahl >> >> We want to take the opportunity to thank all past and new members of >> the Membership Committee for their service to the community, and all >> candidates for running. Congratulations to the newly elected committee >> members and their deputies! >> > Dear candidates, > > personal congrats first off, thanks so much for stepping up & > serving the community - and here comes the next formality: can each > of you individually please confirm that you accept your vote? > > With that, we can then subsequently inaugurate the new membership > committee. > > Kind regards, > > -- > Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board > The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany > Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts > Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-membership] MC filings for Q4/2012
On 12/12/2012, at 6:05, Cor Nouws wrote: > Eike Rathke wrote (11-12-12 17:58) > >> Looking at my already stuffed calendar I suggest next week Monday 17th >> or Tuesday 18th. > > OK for me. > And for the others ? > We can have an irc meeting with as many as possible - and if needed consult > via mail with more. I probably will not be available for an IRC meeting on any day because a time that is good for Europeans will probably be in the middle of the night here in Australia, when I am asleep. So email for me. --Jean
[board-discuss] Request pre-approval of personal expenses for SCALE 11x
I am organising the LibreOffice booth at SCALE 11x, 22-25 February in Los Angeles. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x I request pre-approval for reimbursement of the following personal expenses for attending this event: $ 91.90 Airfare Oakland, CA to Los Angeles, CA (Southwest Airlines) $259.02 2 nights at Airport Hilton (venue of conference) -- $350.92 Total I will submit receipts and a signed reimbursement form after the event. I will submit a separate request for reimbursement of the cost of booth supplies. --Jean Hollis Weber
Re: [board-discuss] Request pre-approval of personal expenses for SCALE 11x
On 20/01/2013, at 4:39, Joel Madero wrote: I request pre-approval for reimbursement of the following personal > expenses for attending this event: > $ 91.90 Airfare Oakland, CA to Los Angeles, CA (Southwest Airlines) > $259.02 2 nights at Airport Hilton (venue of conference) > -- > $350.92 Total > > I will submit receipts and a signed reimbursement form after the event. > > I will submit a separate request for reimbursement of the cost of > booth supplies. > > --Jean Hollis Weber > > > -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. Do you need airfaire back to Oakland as well (you're going one way to LA?). Also, I might see you there as I live only about an hour and a half from LA. I think it's great that LibreOffice is making a showing at US events. Best Regards, Joel I'm going on to Las Vegas before going back to Oakland. If I weren't going to LA, I would fly from Oakland to Las Vegas and back at my own expense, so I thought it wasn't right for me to ask reimbursement for that. Of course, if the Board thinks I should get reimbursed, I won't argue. :-) I'm hoping to find 1 or 2 other people to help out at the LO booth for at least a few hours. Preferably people from the LA area. At present there is me (from Australia) and David Eisenberg (from San Jose). I'll be making repeated calls on various lists, in the hope of someone turning up. David and I have worked together before, so we'll cope if we have to. --Jean
