hiring Christian Lohmaier

Dear community,

in its last private meeting, the board of directors has made a decision I would like to share with you today.

We decided to offer Christian Lohmaier a work contract, for a limited period of one year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web development. This involves developing, enhancing and bug fixing our web applications, like our CMS system, and like the new download page.

Given TDF runs more and more applications that are critical, and has very special requirements e.g. in terms of localization and scaleability, which are not always met by the upstream products we run, several community members have proposed paying someone with development skills - especially in PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++, Java - to implement those requests.

After careful research, the board has come to the decision that hiring Christian Lohmaier on a part-time, time-limited basis specifically for these development tasks is the most economical solution, and will provide huge benefits to the wider community. Code produced will, wherever possible, be also filed upstream, to the benefit of the open source products we use.

Christian has been around for many years, contributing a lot especially to our web applications, and the board is looking forward to have a fixed amount of his time in the future.

The total costs for TDF, including dues employer, translate to approximately 25.000 ¤ per year.

After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in private, I hereby ask the board to

  1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web development, at costs not exceeding 25.000 ¤ per year,
  
  2. authorize Thorsten Behrens and me to sign the work contract on behalf of TDF
  
Looking forward to working with Christian!
Florian

+1

Olivier Hallot
The Document Foundation

Hi,

Dear community,

in its last private meeting, the board of directors has made a
decision I would like to share with you today.

We decided to offer Christian Lohmaier a work contract, for a limited
period of one year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for
web development. This involves developing, enhancing and bug fixing
our web applications, like our CMS system, and like the new download
page.

Given TDF runs more and more applications that are critical, and has
very special requirements e.g. in terms of localization and
scaleability, which are not always met by the upstream products we
run, several community members have proposed paying someone with
development skills - especially in PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++, Java -
to implement those requests.

After careful research, the board has come to the decision that hiring
Christian Lohmaier on a part-time, time-limited basis specifically for
these development tasks is the most economical solution, and will
provide huge benefits to the wider community. Code produced will,
wherever possible, be also filed upstream, to the benefit of the open
source products we use.

Christian has been around for many years, contributing a lot
especially to our web applications, and the board is looking forward
to have a fixed amount of his time in the future.

The total costs for TDF, including dues employer, translate to
approximately 25.000 ¤ per year.

After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in
private, I hereby ask the board to

    1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one
year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web
development, at costs not exceeding 25.000 ¤ per year,
    
    2. authorize Thorsten Behrens and me to sign the work contract on
behalf of TDF
    
Looking forward to working with Christian!

+1 from my side. I'm looking forward to some Python website hacking :wink:

Best regards,
Andreas

+1

Florian Effenberger wrote:

After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in
private, I hereby ask the board to

  1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one
year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web
development, at costs not exceeding 25.000 € per year,
  
  2. authorize Thorsten Behrens and me to sign the work contract on
behalf of TDF
  

+1 - truly happy to enable Cloph to spend some serious time on our web
presence!

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

+1 there is lots that needs doing that fits Christian's skills.

  Thanks !

    Michael.

+1

Charles.

Michael Meeks michael.meeks@suse.com a écrit :

+1

C.

+1 for hiring Cloph from me as well, of course

Hello,

The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4.

A total of 7 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote.
The vote is quorate.

A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.

Result of vote: 7 approvals, 0 neutral, 0 disapprovals.
Decision: The request has been accepted.

This message is to be archived by the BoD members and their deputies.

Florian