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Financials and Budget – TDF Annual Report 2025

2026-07-13

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community.

TDF exists because of a large, dynamic global community — volunteers, ecosystem companies and committed end users who support our work with donations of both time and money. The 2025 accounts tell a clear story: a foundation that grew significantly, while keeping its finances transparent and its spending tied to its mission.

A year of strong growth in income

Total income for 2025 reached € 2,175,997, a substantial increase on the € 1,387,589 recorded in 2024. The growth came from three distinct sources, and it is worth being precise about each.

The largest share, € 1,976,825, came from donations — overwhelmingly from individual users and small businesses, mostly in Europe. This was the fifth consecutive year in which donations exceeded one million euro, and the highest figure to date. Part of this increase was organic, reflecting the continued strength of LibreOffice downloads. A further part can be attributed to a concrete change: in mid-2025 we introduced a new in-product update notification on Windows, which periodically — after every major release and selected minor ones — informs users that an update is available, presents the new features, and invites them to support the project with a donation. The effect was immediately visible as a step-up in donations from the moment it was deployed, and it is keeping donations at a higher level into 2026. We mention this openly, because transparency about *why* the numbers move is as important as the numbers themselves.

The second source was income from the sale of LibreOffice through online stores, sponsoring and related commercial activity, which together generated € 168,975. The Apple App Store (€ 118,942) and the Microsoft Store (€ 35,393) accounted for most of this. The third source was € 30,197 in income from securities held under the foundation’s asset management.

How the money was spent

Total expenditure for 2025 was € 1,457,343. The breakdown by category shows where donor money goes.

Staff and operations remained by far the largest commitment, at € 1,091,032. This covers salaries (€ 406,736), statutory social security contributions (€ 93,244) and freelancers (€ 591,052) — the people who keep infrastructure, communication, administration and project coordination running, in order to share knowledge, support the community in its activities, and enable contributors to do their work.
Tenders. As in 2024, no development tenders were funded in 2025. Tenders related to LibreOffice development remain on hold, and will be resumed based on the development strategy currently under discussion according to the new Procurement Policy.
Events and community support amounted to roughly € 87,000, including the LibreOffice Conference (developer conference, € 51,184), community projects (€ 15,014) and student scholarships (€ 17,368), together with marketing initiatives. These funds support the events and local activities that hold the global community together, and help us to share knowledge around the world.
Infrastructure and hosting came to € 51,420, covering the hosting, virtual machines, services and domains that underpin the project’s technical independence — a foundational asset we continue to prioritise.
Legal and administrative expenses totalled roughly € 92,000, including accounting and the preparation of financial statements (€ 34,164), legal advice and counselling (€ 36,597 across project and general legal work), and insurances (€ 4,626).

Cost of fundraising. Receiving donations is not free. In 2025, payment-processing and banking fees came to roughly € 98,000 — Stripe fees of € 46,446 and bank transfer and money-transfer fees of € 51,190. These are simply the cost of doing business: they scale with the volume of donations we receive. It is worth adding that these figures do not capture the full picture, because PayPal’s currency-conversion costs are embedded in the transactions and not separately visible — though they are comparable in scale to the Stripe fees. We report this plainly so that no reader underestimates what it costs to collect the donations that fund our work.

Results and transparency

After expenses, the charitable entity closed the year with a result of € 554,476, asset management contributed € 21,263, and the commercial business operations returned a profit of € 142,916.

Transparency remains one of TDF’s defining characteristics — towards our donors, contributors, community and users. Our accounting is handled by a professional accountant, and our complete ledgers, listing all income and spending broken down by project, are published on our public wiki at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Ledgers, with only a few items obfuscated for privacy. As in previous years, and given the scale the foundation has reached, our books have been audited, and the Board continues to work with the authorities in Berlin to implement the improvements the audit recommended.

To everyone who contributed time, skills, resources and money in 2025: thank you. The foundation’s strength is your achievement.

Note: The expense categories above are indicative groupings drawn from the foundation’s accounts. They exclude VAT flows and certain material costs that the ledger handles separately, so the categories are not intended to reconcile arithmetically with the per-sphere annual results. The authoritative, fully itemised figures are published in the ledgers.

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Policy and Digital Sovereignty – TDF Annual Report 2025

2026-07-072026-07-08

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community.

Across the reporting period, the public conversation about office software and document formats shifted decisively. The justification for moving away from proprietary suites is no longer framed primarily as cost saving. It is framed as the preservation of independence — the ability of a government to act without asking permission from a foreign supplier. Several of the year’s migrations were announced with that argument stated explicitly and the cost argument set aside; the Austrian Armed Forces went so far as to say the move was not about money at all.

This reframing matters for The Document Foundation, because it moves the debate onto ground where the Foundation has argued for two decades. Digital sovereignty is the ability of nations, organisations and individuals to control their own digital destiny: to control access to their own information without depending on third parties, to make technological choices based on their own needs rather than a vendor’s commercial strategy, and to preserve that self-determination as the market consolidates. When public bodies store their documents in proprietary formats controlled by a single company, they surrender part of that sovereignty.

The year also clarified a distinction the foundation has long insisted on: sovereignty is not delivered by any single layer of the technology stack. It requires an open standard format at the base, an open source application above it, open source infrastructure for data location, and a legislative framework that defines the requirements. A law favouring open source, an open cloud, and an open suite together still leave sovereignty incomplete if the document format itself remains under one vendor’s control. The format is the foundation of the stack, and it is the layer most often overlooked.

The year’s central policy development was Germany’s formal commitment to ODF, a decision whose full weight became apparent only as it moved from principle toward binding implementation.

Germany’s IT Planning Council commits to ODF (April 2025)

In April 2025, Germany’s IT Planning Council — a seventeen-member body representing the federal government and the state governments — committed to moving public administration to the Open Document Format, with the stated aim of making ODF the standard for document exchange by 2027. The Council framed open formats and open interfaces as a necessary building block of public-sector transformation toward digital sovereignty, and commissioned its Standardization Board to implement the decision. The commitment set a clear trajectory: a federal-level decision, binding on the implementing board, with a 2027 target for ODF as the standard for document exchange. Its translation into concrete, enforceable infrastructure standards was expected to follow — and the early signs as the year closed pointed toward exactly that outcome.

Source: TDF Community Blog, 29 April 2025

Underlying decision (IT-Planungsrat, in German)

ODF v1.4 approved as an OASIS Standard (December 2025)

On 3 December 2025, OASIS Open approved ODF v1.4 as an OASIS Standard — the organisation’s highest level of ratification — coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of ODF’s original adoption as an OASIS Standard. The new version maintains full backward compatibility while improving accessibility support (assistive technologies, decorative-object marking), professional formatting and visual design, and features for data analysis and technical documentation. It remains an XML-based, vendor-neutral, royalty-free format. Earlier ODF versions are published as ISO/IEC 26300; the four-part v1.4 specification is available in the OASIS library.

Source: TDF Community Blog, 3 December 2025

Twentieth anniversary of ODF standardisation

The year carried the twentieth-anniversary thread throughout: ODF’s adoption as an OASIS Standard in 2005, and its ISO/IEC standardisation on 3 May 2006. The ODF v1.4 ratification in December 2025 was deliberately timed to the OASIS anniversary. The anniversary is not merely commemorative: it underpins the argument that ODF is the only open standard for office documents with a twenty-year record governments can rely on for long-term archival access.

Open Document Format Campaign and Document Freedom Day

The Foundation ran a sustained ODF communications campaign through the year, built around a regular series of articles on the TDF blog. Rather than isolated announcements, the series formed a coherent body of work that moved from the fundamentals — what ODF is and why it matters — through technical and practical material on file types, compliance and interoperability, the differences between ODF and proprietary formats, migration guidance, and the new features of recent ODF versions, and on to the wider argument connecting open document standards to digital sovereignty. Taken together, the series gave the Foundation a standing reference resource and a consistent public voice on the format throughout the year.

Document Freedom Day was marked as a purely advocacy-driven occasion: blog posts, social media activity across the Foundation’s channels, and small local events organised by community members around the world. The emphasis was on awareness and outreach rather than on any single flagship event.

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Public Administrations Migrating to LibreOffice/ODF During the Year

The following migrations were publicly reported and verifiably advanced during 2025. Status reflects what the cited primary or most reliable source actually supports. Long-standing legacy deployments are deliberately excluded; this list is reserved for movement during the year, and only entries with solid sourcing are included. Figures and completion claims should be confirmed against TDF records before publication.

Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) — confirmed, substantially advanced

By early December 2025, the northern German state reported that close to 80% of administrative workstations outside the tax administration were running LibreOffice as the binding standard, with Microsoft Office and Outlook either already uninstalled or in the process of removal, and a new-licensing rate already well below 10%. The state reported licence-cost savings already exceeding €15 million, against a one-time 2026 migration investment of €9 million. The remaining ~20% of workstations depend on specialist applications with technical ties to Microsoft formats; migration paths for these, and for the tax administration, have been defined. In parallel, the state completed the migration of more than 40,000 mailboxes (over 100 million messages and calendar items) off Exchange/Outlook to Open-Xchange and Mozilla Thunderbird, with the cutover finishing 2 October 2025.

Schleswig-Holstein State Chancellery press release, 4 December 2025

Source: The Register, 15 October 2025 (email migration completion)

Austrian Armed Forces / Bundesheer — confirmed, completed in 2025

The Austrian military migrated approximately 16,000 workstations across all branches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, with the project finalised in 2025 and Microsoft Office 2016 removed from all machines (Office 2024 LTSC retained only under special permission for legacy macro/Access cases). The Directorate 6 (ICT & Cyber) stated the primary driver was digital sovereignty and in-house data processing, explicitly not licence savings. The Bundesheer contributed more than five person-years of upstream development back to the LibreOffice project; the migration was presented at the LibreOffice Conference 2025 in Budapest.

Source: TDF Community Blog, 30 September 2025

Source: heise online, 18 September 2025

Denmark — Ministry of Digital Affairs — confirmed, phased, in progress

The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs committed to replacing Microsoft 365/Office with LibreOffice, beginning July 2025 with a phased rollout (roughly half of staff in the summer, the remainder by autumn). For accuracy: earlier reporting that Denmark would abandon Windows for Linux entirely was subsequently corrected — Windows remains in use on many devices; the confirmed change is the office-suite migration. Several municipalities, including Copenhagen and Aarhus, were reported to be pursuing similar moves.

Source: Linux Journal, mid-2025 (with the Windows correction noted)

Threats to ODF Adoption and Digital Sovereignty

The year’s gains were real, but they sit alongside structural threats. The central risk is that the open-source application migrations succeed while the open format battle is quietly lost — that lock-in survives the move by relocating from the application to the document.

Format sovereignty as the overlooked layer

An office suite that does not use ODF as its native format handles ODF files imperfectly, which re-creates interoperability problems and pushes users back toward the proprietary format “for convenience.” A government can therefore adopt an open suite and an open cloud and still fail to achieve sovereignty if its documents remain in a format controlled by a single vendor. The format is the base of the stack; without it, every layer above is compromised.

The “ISO standard format” sleight of hand

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the reasonable assumption is genuine openness. OOXML Transitional does not deliver it: its stacked dependencies — format, rendering and fonts — re-encode failure at each layer. A format named as a standard while defined by its own specification as provisional is the principal rhetorical obstacle to ODF adoption, and the principal target of the Foundation’s three-strand evidence work.

Initiatives that default to OOXML under a sovereignty banner

A specific and growing risk is the European sovereignty initiative that adopts open source applications and open infrastructure while defaulting to OOXML rather than ODF as its native document format. Such an arrangement re-encodes the dependency at the format layer even as it presents independence at every other layer. This is the precise failure mode Section 4.5 describes, and it gives the Foundation’s insistence on a native open format its practical
urgency.

Political reversibility

Sovereignty gains are reversible without durable policy commitment. Munich’s LiMux reversal remains the cautionary precedent, and the year offered a live counter-signal: even as Schleswig-Holstein advanced, Bavaria was reported to be pursuing a major Microsoft 365 contract. This is why a binding federal commitment to ODF, of the kind Germany set in motion in 2025, matters: it raises the cost of reversal. But commitments depend on sustained political will to carry them into enforceable practice.

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LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2026

2026-07-032026-07-03

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

We started by announcing LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth bugfix update to the current stable branch of the suite.

Throughout the month, we continued our blog post series looking at Open Document Format (ODF), Microsoft’s OOXML, and vendor lock-in: A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty; Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF; and The invisible architecture of lock-in – the layering of dependencies.

Our marketing and design communities worked on a new video: Join the LibreOffice Community! (This video is also available on PeerTube.)

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Then we posted sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2025: LibreOffice releases, features, QA and accessibility; LibreOffice Marketing Activities; LibreOffice Downloads and Donations in 2025; and LibreOffice Conference and External Events.

Finally, the the documentation community announced the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 26.2.

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LibreOffice Marketing Activities in 2025 – TDF Annual Report

2026-06-29

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community.

In 2025, The Document Foundation and the global LibreOffice community pursued a marketing and advocacy programme that combined the established work of community building and software promotion with a sharpened public argument about digital sovereignty and open document standards. The year was framed by two anchoring milestones — LibreOffice’s fifteenth anniversary and the passing of 400 million cumulative downloads — and by an increasingly explicit defence of the Open Document Format as the only open standard for office documents. What follows is a thematic overview of the major activities carried out in support of TDF and LibreOffice over the course of the year, grouped by area rather than reported month by month.

Anniversary and Adoption Milestones

Two milestones gave the year its public narrative.

In January, TDF announced that LibreOffice had surpassed 400 million cumulative downloads since 2011, with an average of 28.6 million downloads per year and an upward trend reaching over 35 million annual downloads. The announcement reaffirmed the project’s standing against the long-running narrative that the desktop office suite was destined to disappear into the cloud.

In September, the project celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of LibreOffice, launched on 28 September 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice. The anniversary was treated not merely as a software birthday but as a statement about the movement LibreOffice represents: a community of thousands of contributors and dozens of companies, localisation into more than 120 languages reaching billions of potential users, and a sustained argument for digital autonomy in an era of cloud lock-in and disappearing ownership. The communication tied the milestone directly to ODF as the guarantee of perpetual, transparent control over one’s own documents.

Advocacy: Digital Sovereignty and Open Standards

The most distinctive development of 2025 was the consolidation of marketing into a coherent advocacy campaign around digital sovereignty and open document standards.

The end of Windows 10 support, scheduled for 14 October 2025, provided the central advocacy occasion. TDF backed the international @endof10 campaign and argued that the moment was a crossroads rather than a routine product transition, positioning Linux and LibreOffice as a privacy-respecting, future-proof alternative to a forced upgrade path toward Windows 11 and Microsoft 365, with their attendant subscription costs, cloud dependency, and hardware obsolescence.

Alongside this, the foundation built a body of technical and policy-oriented material making the case for ODF as the only open standard for office documents and exposing the structural problems of OOXML. This advocacy strand reframed the project’s communication from product promotion toward a public argument about format ownership, lock-in, and institutional control of documents — an argument that resonated strongly with public-sector and policy audiences.

Conferences and Major Events

International and regional conferences remained central to the foundation’s visibility.

The annual LibreOffice Conference 2025 was the flagship gathering of contributors — developers, designers, documentation writers, translators, and marketers — and was promoted across the project’s channels in the now-established pattern of agenda, speaker, and live-update coverage. Two major regional conferences extended the programme across the world’s communities: the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, hosted in Japan, and the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Havana. Both brought together contributors and users from their respective regions, generated substantial follow-up content, and reinforced the project’s presence in two of its most active geographies.

The community calendar was also rich with smaller regional events that the marketing team supported and amplified, including the LibreItalia Conference 2025, LinuxDays 2025 in Prague, the OSS Conf 2025 in Luxembourg, an event in Nepal tied to Software Freedom Day, the Augsburger Linux-Infoday, the Prague Installfest, the Univention Summit, the Linux Arena in Pordenone (Italy), and FLISoL Brasília. The project also maintained a presence at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels at the start of the year.

Community Building and Recognition

The recurring Month of LibreOffice campaigns ran again in May and November, recognising and rewarding contributors across development, documentation, QA, localisation, and marketing through digital badges, public acknowledgement, and sticker packs and merchandise shipped to participants. The campaign continued to serve both as a celebration of existing contributors and as an on-ramp for new ones.

A significant structural development was the launch of the LibreOffice US community in November. Recognising that the United States, despite a large user base, had never developed an organised local community, TDF created dedicated communication channels (Discord, bridged to Matrix, and a Mastodon account) with the goal of supporting US-specific merchandise, marketing and advocacy materials, and meetups.

Documentation, Publications and Merchandise

The community continued to expand its published resources as a marketing and onboarding asset. New user guides were released for the 25.2 line, alongside the Calc Guide 24.8 and Czech translations of the Getting Started Guide 24.8 and the Calc Guide 25.2, reflecting the contribution of native-language communities. New LibreOffice Expert magazines for 2025–2026 were made available for schools and local communities, and a new line of LibreOffice merchandise was introduced to support events, giveaways, and fundraising.

Media, Press Relations and Social Media

TDF sustained its media relations work throughout the year, issuing press releases tied to releases, milestones, events, and public-sector adoption, and reinforcing LibreOffice’s position as a cost-effective, secure, and privacy-respecting alternative to proprietary office suites. The social media strategy continued across Mastodon, LinkedIn, and the project’s other channels, with particular emphasis on reaching decision-makers in public administration through case studies and adoption stories, and on carrying the digital-sovereignty argument to professional and policy audiences. Monthly project-and-community recaps provided a steady, aggregated record of activity across the year.

Public-Sector Adoption

Public-sector migration continued to be one of the most persuasive elements of the project’s external messaging, demonstrating LibreOffice’s viability at institutional scale and lending concrete weight to the digital-sovereignty argument that ran through the year’s advocacy. These migrations were amplified through press and social channels as evidence that open standards and open-source office software are a realistic foundation for public administration.

Conclusion

In 2025, TDF’s marketing and advocacy work matured from software promotion into a coherent public case for digital sovereignty built on open document standards. Anchored by the fifteenth anniversary and the 400-million-download milestone, sharpened by the end of Windows 10 and the defence of ODF, and sustained by conferences, community campaigns, publications, and steady media work, the year’s activities both amplified LibreOffice’s visibility and strengthened the wider argument that documents — and the institutions that depend on them — are better served by open standards and community-driven software.

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LibreOffice Downloads and Donations in 2025 – TDF Annual Report

2026-06-26

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon…

Donations

In 2025, The Document Foundation received 140,593 donation transactions, for a total of €1,807,780 net of payment processing and currency conversion charges. This represents a substantial increase over the two preceding years: donation transactions had numbered 98,361 in 2023 and 104,430 in 2024, while the corresponding amounts were €1,302,956 and €1,387,589. Transaction volume therefore grew by approximately 35% year on year, and the cleaned total rose by roughly 30%.

A note on methodology is useful here. The charts in this section report the number of donation transactions rather than the amounts received. This is deliberate: the financial figure can be established only after each transaction has been cleaned by subtracting conversion charges and processing fees, whereas the transaction count is known directly. The charts therefore describe the shape of the trend, while the euro totals given above represent the financial reality behind it.

The quarterly distribution shows that the year’s growth was strongly concentrated in its final months. The first three quarters each built modestly on the last, and the fourth quarter rose well above them. This Q4 surge has a clear explanation. The announcement of LibreOffice 25.8 in August was followed by the introduction of a new update mechanism on Windows, which presents users with a dedicated new-features page and an invitation to support the project. This combination proved markedly effective in converting attention into contributions. The growing public interest in European digital sovereignty over the course of 2025 may have provided additional, favourable context, but the measurable drivers were the release and the new update mechanism.

Downloads

LibreOffice was downloaded 44,809,742 times in 2025 from the official download page, and the year recorded the highest annual figure in the project’s history. The per-year chart shows steady growth across more than a decade; the 2019 figure is shown but should be read with caution, as automated traffic distorted the counts that year. Rather than omit it, the Foundation has chosen to publish a credible corrected number and to state openly that it cannot be fully trusted.

These download figures should be understood as a floor rather than a ceiling. Several large channels fall outside the count entirely: most Linux users obtain LibreOffice through their distributions, installations from the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store are not recorded, and the new Windows update mechanism means that a user may download the software once and subsequently update it without generating a further download. Actual usage is therefore considerably higher than the download total alone suggests.

Viewed month by month, downloads remained consistently strong throughout the year, with 2025 ahead of both 2023 and 2024 in most months. The pattern shows no single dominant spike but rather a sustained level of demand, consistent with LibreOffice’s established position rather than a one-off event.

The update page offers a complementary perspective. It recorded 581,615,673 visits during the year — a figure that, while not deduplicated, gives a sense of the scale of the active user community. On a conservative basis, the Foundation estimates the LibreOffice user base at around 100 million, with a substantial further number of occasional users. A higher reading is also defensible: at a ratio of roughly one user for every three to four update-page visits, the active community would fall between 140 and 180 million.

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LibreOffice Conference and External Events – TDF Annual Report 2025

2026-06-23

This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon…

LibreOffice Conference

The LibreOffice Conference was the annual get-together of the worldwide LibreOffice community, bringing together developers, contributors, and users. The 2025 event was held in Budapest, Hungary, from September 3 to 5, and was preceded by a community session.

The main conference featured 53 sessions spread over three days. It kicked off with a welcome and housekeeping session, followed by an opening speech from Eliane Domingos from TDF’s Board of Directors, and a welcome speech from the university that hosted the event.

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After that, the talks began across several different tracks, including the Open Document Format, advocacy and marketing, development and extensions, UX and design, and more. The full list of talks can be found on https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2025/schedule/. There was also a notable talk from the Austrian military (Bundesheer) about their migration to LibreOffice and the new features they funded.

The event finished on Friday with a lightning talks session, followed by the closing address and a celebration for the 15th anniversary of LibreOffice. But the conference was more than just talks: there was a community dinner as well.

Now the community is looking forward to 2026’s LibreOffice Conference. The event will take place in Pordenone, northern Italy, from September 10 to 12, and the Call for Papers is currently open.

In addition to the main LibreOffice Conference, there was the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, from December 13 – 14. Speakers and guests from around the world discussed topics specific to Asian communities, such as complex text layout (CTL) and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language support, and marketing LibreOffice in specific countries.

There was also the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9. LibreOffice project activities was concentrated on the opening day, October 6, and in the special session “LibreOffice Congress and Technological Sovereignty”, on the 8th. With the remaining days available, the organisers articulated a parallel agenda of activities, with visits and strategic meetings with managers and professionals from governmental and community areas.

TDF at External Events

Throughout 2025, members of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community attended many other events around the world. The first big event was FOSDEM, held in Brussels in early February – the biggest meetup of free and open source software developers in Europe. As usual, the LibreOffice community was present with a stand, merchandise, stickers, flyers, clothing and more. Attendees came by to talk about the project, report issues and make suggestions.

In late April, the Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2025 event took place in southern Germany, and LibreOffice was present with a stand and merchandise. Another German event was the Univention Summit 2025: it took place on January 23 and 24 in Bremen, and the LibreOffice project was present and met with the people overseeing the migration to LibreOffice in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Italian community members attended the Linux Arena event from April 25 – 27 in Pordenone. They had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand they met different interested people – some of whom they already know since they visit the fair regularly, while others they saw for the first time. There was curiosity about LibreOffice, and this time the stand personal noticed an increasing demand about AI integration and related plugins. The LibreOffice coffee/beer mats were very much appreciated by visitors to the stand.

Later in the year, Community members in Nepal tuned in to an online call and turned Software Freedom Day 2025 into a success. Birendra Open Source Club – one of the student clubs and LibreOffice project contributors in Nepal, with support from Liaison Suraj Bhattarai and other key open source clubs, hopped onto Discord on 20 September.

On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University) in Prague. It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the Czech-speaking LibreOffice community was there.

Members of the Indian LibreOffice community celebrated Document Freedom Day in Noida on 29 March. The event featured a few talks on free software such as OpenStreetMap, Prav and KDE, and also a lawyer told attendees how they manage all their clients’ data with free software and keeping their privacy in mind. LibreOffice merchandise was distributed at the sticker table.

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