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<p>Please see the council meeting notes from January 30, 2020.<br>
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<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<br>
Patrick<br>
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Thunderbird Project Council Meeting 2020-01-30</p>
<p>Call Summary<br>
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020<br>
Keeper of the minutes: Patrick</p>
<p>In the call: <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Magnus, Wayne, Berna, Jörg, Patrick, Ryan
Regrets: Philipp</span><br>
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<p>The meeting commences at 2:00 PM CEST.</p>
<h3 dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"
id="docs-internal-guid-93e808ea-7fff-cfe5-a58e-7cd83de24487"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hiring/personnel</span></h3>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation">Berna and Patrick to distribute to the Council and staff a plan to formalize performance reviews for staff.</p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discussed how to improve communication between the Council and staff.</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnus noted that the approved job requisites will be live soon.</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discussed hiring for more positions (mostly around QA) and how this would impact the budget.</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Governance</span></h3>
<ul>
<li>Wayne and Patrick provided an update on the election.</li>
<ul>
<li>We need to create a new schedule with a longer discussion
period.</li>
<li>Need to confirm we have a neutral party to run the election.
[Note that since this meeting we have confirmed that Don Marti
will help us with the election again this year.]<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Misc</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Jörg discussed his experiences at the Mozilla all hands: had some good conversations, some congratulations about the MZLA Technologies change.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Ryan briefed the Council on his talks with cketti, the author of <a href="https://k9mail.github.io/">K-9 Mail</a>, about potential ways to collaborate.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Ryan has an in-person meeting scheduled with cketti during <a href="https://fosdem.org/2020/">FOSDEM</a> (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting)</span>.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Discussed backfilling the tasks that </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Jörg due to his upcoming departure.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Morphed into a discussion of hiring QA staff.
</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Magnus and Ryan let us know the <a href="https://give.thunderbird.net/">new donation site</a> is now live.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Unfortunately there's been some problems with it (a few layout bugs, a few missing translations).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">There are reports of issues donating via PayPal.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-995156b5-7fff-7153-0a0f-c5b67db8a11e">Ryan to follow-up with the Mozilla Foundation donations team.
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