A personal note on Christmas

To our Community, dear users and loyal friends:

It’s been nearly three months since The Document Foundation began to breathe, and it is no secret I convey when I say that these months have been the most challenging, but also the most exciting and most fascinating moments in the life of our free office suite. In just a short period of time, something very big has grown out of an idea’s small seed, and all of you are a part of it and contributed so much to its success.

Time passes by so soon and now the end of the year is at the doorsteps. As we are approaching the holiday season, I would personally like to take the opportunity of wishing you, your friends and families a blessed and merry Christmas, many peaceful and silent days with your beloved ones and people you care about, and a happy, healthy and successful New Year, that shall make you reach your goals and make your dreams come true.

I would like to thank you for being a part of the LibreOffice Community, for all the good and wonderful things you contribute — we are very much looking forward to working with you in 2011!

Merry Christmas!

Florian

The Document Foundation joins Open Invention Network

The Document Foundation has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), to further extend the free software ecosystems. By becoming a licensee, The Document Foundation – developer of LibreOffice, a free office suite for personal and corporate productivity – has joined the growing list of organizations that recognize the importance of participating in the Open Invention Network, in order to protect the free software ecosystem from the risks associated to software patents. (more…)

LibreOffice development extends to Brazil

LibreOffice development extends to Brazil

The Internet, December 6, 2010 – The Document Foundation welcomes the new BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software, a software development project recently announced by BrOffice, Itaipu Binacional and the Itaipu Technological Park Foundation. The main software lab, based in Foz do Iguacu, will contribute to the development of LibreOffice (BrOffice in Brazil), and other free software projects. The activity is forecast to start in the first quarter of 2011.
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