Category: Community

The next marketing confcall will take place on Tuesday, March 29th, at 16:00 UTC (=18:00 German time). Remember that in some countries, daylight saving time will be in effect by that date! To determine your local date and time, see the converter in the Doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nn9gubpev28kzeus

Dial-in details will be provided in time. Please add your desired agenda items and topics you want to discuss about to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda

Looking forward to hearing you, and to be working with you on marketing LibreOffice and its community!

For quite a while, I have been asked about the number of subscriptions in our mailing lists. I’ve now spent some time in the night and hacked a little bash script, to compile recent numbers, and will regularly post these to our moderators mailing list. Today’s statistics, for example, are available in this posting.

For the future, I plan to enhance the script to show some more statistics, like the number of total postings, the number different countries, the number of moderators, and some graphical representation of the data. Stay tuned!

The Document Foundation welcomes the contribution of Canonical‘s development team to LibreOffice. In particular it is great to welcome Bjoern Michaelsen’s recent addition to the full time team on the project from Canonical. Bjoern brings deep expertise on the LibreOffice core, and has spearheaded many improvements in his previous role at Oracle, we are excited to see his positive impact on LibreOffice, as well as in the Debian and Ubuntu versions of the future. It is also wonderful to see Canonical’s fixes for ARM based platforms, and the results of their investment via CodeThink in Unity Integration. It’s great to have you guys on board.

Dear Community,

the last days, we have seen long discussions, people asking about processes and directions, and the role of the Steering Committee was unclear to some Community members. I do not want to discuss the issues in detail, I even don’t want to mention them by name, but I felt it was time to bring some personal thoughts into them. The following paragraphs are just my personal thoughts and not an official statement of the Steering Committee, but I hope they help all of us to work on our common mission. (more…)

The LibreOffice Marketing Conference Call will take place this Thursday, January 20th, at 1800 UTC+1. For your local date and time, see http://www.doodle.com/3wf6zk7tzdekfx23?newDesign=true

Please add your favorite agenda items to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda and keep in mind we will limit this call to one hour.
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Now that the new year has started, we will also start a new round of public phone conferences. If you want to participate, you can cast your vote on the date and time at Doodle. For the marketing phone conference, see details at http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/msg01800.html and for the steering committee call at http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/msg00366.html

More information on the calls itself as well as the agenda is available in the wiki at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls respectively http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings