Twenty years ago, on July 19, 2000, Sun Microsystems announced at O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, California, the release of the source code of its StarOffice Suite to the open source community. Thus
Foundation Archive
18 Jul 2020
20 Years of the FOSS Office Suite
16 Jul 2020
Annual Report 2019: Marketing community activities
(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)
Ongoing Marketing Activities
Marketing at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice is a large team effort, with contractors paid for their activity – thanks to the money made available by our generous
14 Jul 2020
Announcing elections for the next TDF Membership Committee
Franklin Weng from The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors writes:
Dear Community,
we hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Membership Committee of The Document Foundation.
As per § 12 II of our statutes (binding version in German and non-binding translation), the Membership Committee’s term lasts two years. The
09 Jul 2020
Marketing plan draft: Discussion about options available, and timetable
Lothar Becker, Chairman of The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, writes:
Dear community,
thanks for the feedback on the marketing plan draft via different channels so far. We want to let you know and have you take part, as the board is discussing the options now available with that draft.
In the meantime, some more feedback will
06 Jul 2020
Board statement on the LibreOffice 7.0 RC “Personal Edition” label
Dear LibreOffice Community, supporters and friends,
Thanks to the hard work put in by many individual and ecosystem contributors, working together as a team in different fields, such as development, QA, design, marketing, localisation, release engineering, infrastructure, just to mention some, in a few weeks’ time we will be welcoming our LibreOffice 7.0 milestone.
At the same
