Category: Community

Much time has passed since the last marketing conference call, and this is not the only reason to start this year with coordinating our marketing efforts for 2012. 😉

Italo and me would like to invite all of you to participate in a phone conference to discuss on what we have achieved so far, and on what the plans for this year will be. After we have built a good basis, and after we achieved many milestones as a strong community, it is time to reach out for more, and also to listen to each other, to hear about the situation, successes and needs in the various projects around the globe.

Everyone is invited – experienced marketeers as well as interested “newbies”. The call’s language will be English, and I expect it to last one hour, if needed also longer. To have enough time to plan on an agenda and to prepare, we would like to aim for a date in the last two weeks of January. I made some proposals on

http://www.doodle.com/d95dn5k3xc2k5s2g

and would like to ask all of you to indicate your availability there, in case you would like to join (which we hope! ;). The date with most possible participants will be chosen then and announced soon.

Looking forward to hearing all of you, wishing us a successful and healthy year 2012, filled with lots of positive surprises! 😉

“We are excited about the LibreOffice project”, says Monty, founder and creator of MySQL and MariaDB. “To do our part with for the project we are committed to integrate and provide excellent support for MariaDB, (the successor of MySQL from the same people that created MySQL) for LibreOffice. This includes among other things a new LGPL C drivers to connect to MariaDB or MySQL and provide bug fixing for any bug in MariaDB that seriously affects LibreOffice.” (Source: http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/#monty)

The LibreOffice Extensions Repository now has 100 projects listed. Congratulations to all community members involved in this success!

Back in the days of OpenOffice.org, contributors to the project were entitled to get an @openoffice.org e-mail address they could use for their project-related work. With LibreOffice, at the moment only official spokespersons and members of the BoD and MC have a @documentfoundation.org e-mail address.

We at TDF strongly believe in contributors identifying themselves with the work they do, with the community they’re engaged in, and with the software they develop, translate, document, market, provide infrastructure for and give users support for. Having an e-mail address that reflects their affiliation not only helps in making the community and the program better known, but also shows our apprecation and admiration for everyone contributing to their success.

I’m thus delighted to announce that, within the next weeks, we will be starting to provide @libreoffice.org e-mail addresses. They will not be only forwarders, but thanks to a generous sponsor, we will be able to offer IMAP mailboxes with 500 MB storage for free to everyone who is a Member of The Document Foundation. We’ll communicate more details directly to Members.