Category: 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

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