In terms of marketing and PR, a large free software project is quite similar to a large corporation. In fact, activities are following each other without interruption: major and minor product announcements, global events and local events, community fostering projects, and day to day activities (such as working with journalists).
In addition, there are the so called back office activities, which are instrumental for the success of the main ones but are less visible (and usually tedious).…
A new year begins, and we kick off with our first LibreOffice contributor interview of 2017. This time we’re talking to Hazel Russman who helps out with documentation and translations…
Where do you live, and are you active on social media?
I’m British and live in North London. I don’t do social media but I have a web page at www.hrussman.entadsl.com…
Donations to The Document Foundation have been steadily growing for the last three years, thanks to the generosity of many thousands of people around the world.
In 2016, donations have been 82,036 (a 14.2% increase over 2015).
In 2015, donations have been 71,839 (a 9.5% increase over 2014).
In 2014, donations have been 65,579.
Donations are key to our project, as they provide the economic resources to keep the organization and the infrastructure running, to fund activities such as participation of volunteers to FOSDEM and the LibreOffice Conference, and to help local activities organized locally by native language projects.…
