We originally posted this tender in April, but we are now extending the application deadline.
The deadline for questions stays as in the original tender: June 15, 2021
The deadline for applications has been extended to: June 24, 2021
For all details on the tender, please refer to the original blogpost.
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to implement master document fixes.
The documentation team regularly publishes guides and books. The underlying workflow requires to fix bugs and issues with the master document feature of Writer.
The scope of this tender is to fix at least the following issues:
The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version.
The bugs must be fixed and verified.
All technology standards of relevance, as well as their targeted versions for this tender should be declared or defined in the offer’s description of implementation.
A key item of the deliverables for this tender and therefore also a decision criteria – besides qualification, references, price, and completeness of fullfilment – is extensive is documentation about the approach chosen to implement or fix the above items. We expect bidders to provide documentation on both the code and the non-code parts of this tender, e.g. methodology, structure and technical aspects. The Document Foundation will publish this under a free and open source license and make it available to the general public. Publications will be in the Help system and in the Guides books.
If the bug fix incurs in a change in the user interface or user procedure, it should also contain the necessary instructions to activate the procedure.
Required skills
Other skills
We use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work on the program code must be licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Bidders will get a preference for including a partner or independent developer who has not been involved in a successful tender before. For such developers, who have not yet been part of a successful tender bid, we aim on a best-effort basis, but without any guarantees whatsoever, to provide some mentoring in understanding the code base and the process in contributing to the code. We expect that time and efforts on the bidder’s side for this should not be part of the paid work for this tender. Please mention such need of LibreOffice development mentoring in your offer.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to certified developers and/or members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.
When budgeting, we anticipated that this project (all items combined) to take in the region of 5 days of work. Should bidders’ assessment result in a significantly different number, please reach out to us before sending your bid, so we can clarify upfront.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications for the aforementioned tasks, your offer in form of a fixed-time, fixed-budget approach, and the duration period for the implementation in calendar weeks after the final awarding of the tender, via e-mail to a committee at tender20210602@documentfoundation.org no later than July 5, 2021.
Applicants who have not received feedback by August 2, 2021 should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.
All bidders are invited to ask their questions on this tender until June 23, 2021. Questions and answers will be made public in a collected and anonymized form.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
provide consultancy on implementing features in LibreOffice
to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to give technical consultancy on the implementation of one or more of the following:
As part of the tender, TDF is explicitly looking into on-site development training on these topics for the community to share knowledge and enable contributors to get involved. This training is to be delivered during the next LibreOffice Hackfest in Hamburg (April 7-8, 2018)
More details on this approach can be found at https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg03988.html
Required skills
We exclusively use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the the Mozilla Public License v2.0.
Other skills
Applications should
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to certified developers and/or members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, your financial expectations and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org no later than February 5, 2018. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.
Applicants who have not received feedback by February 18, 2018 should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
redesign and implement the download and donate pages on the LibreOffice website
to start work as soon as possible.
The combination of the download and the donation pages is the largest source of income for The Document Foundation. It is implemented into the SilverStripe CMS with donation mechanism integration to PayPal, ConCardis, BitPay and Flattr. We seek to optimize user experience by a redesign and update of both pages including technical implementation.
TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, design and implement the following:
The source code for both pages can be found at https://github.com/tdf/newdesign_wip
Required Skills
We exclusively use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Other Skills
English (Conversationally fluent in order to coordinate and plan with members of TDF)
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, your financial expectations (name the final price for the turnkey project), and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org no later than September 1, 2016. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.
Applicants who have not received feedback by October 1, 2016 should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a
Infrastructure and System Administrator
to start work as soon as possible. The role is scheduled for 40 hours a week. The work time is flexible and work happens from the applicant’s home office, which can be located anywhere in the world.
Our infrastructure is based on 4 large hypervisors with about 50 virtual machines running on them. In addition there are several bare-metal machines, additional backup servers, externally hosted virtual machines and services, split across three data centers and connected via dynamic routing.
Key technology used is
Tools we make use of
Skills we seek for
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, including curriculum vitae, your financial expectations, and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org no later than July 15, 2016, midnight UTC. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.
If you haven’t received feedback by August 15, 2016 your application could not be considered.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
design and implement a profile safe mode for LibreOffice
to start work as soon as possible.
For bug reports and QA issues, users are from time to time required to use a fresh user profile, i.e. without settings different from the built-in defaults, with no document restore enabled and with all extensions disabled. Until now, the easiest route to achieve this is to delete or rename the existing user profile.
A feature should be implemented that enables the user to start LibreOffice in a temporary safe mode as outlined above, without having to manually delete their profile, and with the ability to return to the regular state afterwards.
In addition, the user should be able to choose which elements are to be put in safe mode, e.g. configuration, extension, documents, templates, and also be presented with an option to actually reset their profile permanently.
Besides an UI item from where the functionality can be triggered, the safe mode dialog should also pop up after a program crash to help the user identify and report the problem.
The scope of this task includes:
Required Skills
C++ Programming language for the LibreOffice client part
Other Skills
English (Conversationally fluent in order to coordinate and plan with members of TDF)
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, your financial expectations (name the final price for the turnkey project), and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org no later than May 6, 2016. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.
Applicants who have not received feedback by June 6, 2016 should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.
