The Document Foundation Blog

February 25, 2011

Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 14:40

The Community around LibreOffice, the free personal productivity suite, has accomplished the next major milestone in establishing The Document Foundation as a legal entity. In just eight days, some 2,000 donors from all over the world contributed €50,000 for the capital stock necessary to set-up the legal entity in Germany.

“We still can’t believe it,” says Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee member. “It happened in such a short period of time and was beyond our wildest expectations. You all really rock! On behalf of the Community, the Steering Committee would like to thank all the donors for their generous support.” (more…)

February 23, 2011

LibreOffice 3.3.1 brings new colored icons

Filed under: Announcements — Florian Effenberger @ 12:02

The Internet, February 23, 2011 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.3.1, the first micro release of the free office suite for personal productivity, to improve the stability of the software and eliminate crashes affecting the Windows version. LibreOffice 3.3.1 also brings new colorful icons based on The Document Foundation branding guidelines, and includes updates to several language versions. More details can be found in the official press release.

You are our rockstars!

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 11:15

Yes, these are emotional words, but we just have to say: You are our rockstars!

In just one week, thousands of donors from all over the world did the unbelievable: You all donated more than 40.000 € for setting up The Document Foundation as legal entity. Honestly, we never ever even dreamed of achieving that in such a short period of time – what happened is just amazing, awesome and beyond imagination. Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much! You all contributed to the dream of a Foundation, and with 10.000 € left until we have the required capital stock, we’re close to making it a reality.

You all rock, and you are among the heroes of this Community!

Perhaps the most exiciting thing about nearing our capital goal is the diversity of individual donors, each one making a small but significant blow for a stable future for LibreOffice. Without all of you, we could not be where we are now, and better we are not reliant on any single corporation or donor which is a great source of strength for our community.

Our race for funds runs until March 21st, and we hope for many more donations that not only help us in getting the required 50.000 € capital stock, but also a starting budget for the future Foundation. We’d like to share some thoughts on the next steps with you, as well as answering some of the most frequently asked questions on the race for funds and the creation of the Foundation. (more…)

February 21, 2011

A warm welcome to Canonical

Filed under: Community — The Document Foundation Board of Directors @ 17:55

The Document Foundation welcomes the contribution of Canonical‘s development team to LibreOffice. In particular it is great to welcome Bjoern Michaelsen’s recent addition to the full time team on the project from Canonical. Bjoern brings deep expertise on the LibreOffice core, and has spearheaded many improvements in his previous role at Oracle, we are excited to see his positive impact on LibreOffice, as well as in the Debian and Ubuntu versions of the future. It is also wonderful to see Canonical’s fixes for ARM based platforms, and the results of their investment via CodeThink in Unity Integration. It’s great to have you guys on board.

February 18, 2011

Go go go!

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 21:15

With your help, we can reach 20.000 EUR today! Thanks so much! http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/donate/

We’ve hit 16,000!

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 16:48

You are just AMAZING! Over 16,000 Eur came in already. THANK YOU SO MUCH! http://challenge.documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice has been awarded

Filed under: Technology — Florian Effenberger @ 10:56

LibreOffice has been awarded by PortalProgramas.com with a donation of 300 €. Thank you very much for your support!

We’ve hit 13,000!

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 10:32

Wow, over 13,000 EUR have been already donated for the Foundation. Folks, you rock! http://challenge.documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC2 available

Filed under: Announcements — Florian Effenberger @ 10:18

LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2 is now available. See our detailed announcement for more information.

February 17, 2011

Nearly 10,000 Euro!

Filed under: Foundation — Florian Effenberger @ 21:48

Nearly 10,000 Euro have been donated already. You are wonderful, folks! Keep up that great support – with your help, we can make it! http://challenge.documentfoundation.org

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