September 2012 - TDF Community Blog

The Document Foundation celebrates its second anniversary and starts fundraising campaign to reach the next stage

2012-09-27

Fourth quarter’s donors define the communities budget for the next year

Berlin, September 28, 2012 – The Document Foundation celebrates its second anniversary since the announcement of the project on September 28, 2010. During the last 12 months, the foundation was legally established in Berlin, the Board of Directors and the Membership Committee were elected by TDF members, where membership is based on meritocracy and not on invitation, Intel became a supporter, and LibreOffice 3.5 and 3.6 families were announced.…

LibreOffice Community announces broad program for its Berlin conference

2012-09-26

Tracks on development, marketing, migration and community success
The Document Foundation to host official ODF Plugfest and ODF Plugtesting

The LibreOffice community today announces the program for its Berlin conference (October 17th to 19th). Taking place at the conference center of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), and sponsored by leading players Canonical, Google and SerNet, it is not only the annual gathering of the worldwide community, but also meeting point for governmental and corporate adopters and innovators.…

Meet the Membership Committee

2012-09-22

The Members of The Document Foundation have just elected the new Membership Committee, with five members – Sophie Gautier, Fridrich Štrba, Eike Rathke, Cor Nouws and Jean Weber – and two deputies – Simon Phipps and Leif Lodahl.

I think that there are a couple of significant facts to underline here: the number of the original TDF founders is lower than the number of new TDF members (although several of them have been active in the project for a long time), and the number of independent members is higher than the number of people affiliated with companies sponsoring TDF.…

LibreOffice Localization Program in Saudi Arabia announced to enhance Arabic language related features

2012-09-13

The Document Foundation and the National Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia work at the further enhancement of LibreOffice

Berlin, September 13, 2012 – The Document Foundation and the National Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah: http://www.motah.org.sa…

LibreOffice Conference registration is now open

2012-09-05

Dear Community,

we are proud to announce that the registration for this years’ LibreOffice Conference, taking place in Berlin from October 17th to 19th, including a community day on October 16th, is now open.

In order to help the organizers with their planning, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible, and no later than October 8th.…

The Document Foundation joins the OASIS Consortium

2012-09-04

LibreOffice Conference in Berlin will host a dedicated ODF PlugFest

Berlin, September 4, 2012 – The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, has joined the Organisation for the Advancement of Standards in Information Society (OASIS). The international standards development consortium is the leader in many key digital standards, and one of the most respected names in the standards field.…