The Document Foundation announces new Certified Developers

Berlin, November 24, 2013 – The Document Foundation (TDF) has just appointed two Certified Developers, Jan-Marek Glogowski (Landeshauptstadt München) and Samuel Mehrbrodt (independent), bringing the total number to 44. Jan-Marek Glogowski is the first Certified Developer working as an employee inside a large organization deploying LibreOffice on thousands of PCs, and supporting the deployment with bug fixes.

In addition, the first batch of Certified Developers appointed in October 2012 has been renewed: Thorsten Behrens (SUSE), Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat), Cédric Bosdonnat (SUSE), Rene Engelhard (independent), Jan Holešovský (Collabora), Tor Lillqvist (Collabora), Christian Lohmaier (TDF), Luboš Luňák (independent), Lionel Elie Mamane (independent), Eilidh McAdam (ITOMIG), Caolán McNamara (Red Hat), Michael Meeks (Collabora), Björn Michaelsen (Canonical), Petr Mládek (SUSE), Markus Mohrhard (Collabora), Eike Rathke (Red Hat), Michael Stahl (Red Hat), Fridrich Štrba (SUSE), David Tardon (Red Hat), András Timár (Collabora) and Kohei Yoshida (Collabora).

Certified Developers are able to assist enterprise deployments of LibreOffice by providing professional Level 3 support, with feature development and bug fixing, to solve application and interoperability problems. The Developer Certification Program is intended to help identify qualified developers to support deployment of LibreOffice in the public administration and the enterprise.

Details about TDF Certification are available on The Document Foundation site at: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification. The updated list of Certified Developers is here: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/developers/.