Yesterday, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced that the opportunity to apply for LibreOffice certification for migrations and training is now available to FSF Associate Members. In 2015, TDF began offering LibreOffice certification to certify “individuals actively promoting LibreOffice deployments, thanks to their competence in specific areas” including development and L3 support, migrations to LibreOffice, and LibreOffice training.…
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Public Money? Public Code!
The Document Foundation joins FSFE campaign
31 organisations ask to improve public procurement of software
Digital services offered and used by public administrations are the critical infrastructure of 21st-century democratic nations. To establish trustworthy systems, government agencies must ensure they have full control over systems at the core of our digital infrastructure. This is rarely the case today due to restrictive software licences.…
Meeting the Taiwanese community
I have just visited Taiwan to attend COSCUP, meet representatives of the Taiwanese government and the local community, and run a certification session. Generally speaking, it was a very positive trip, because I was able to get a grasp of the activities at every level. Taiwan is definitely one of the strongholds of The Document Foundation.…
TDF 2016 Annual Report has been published
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2016 is now available as a PDF document, in three different versions: English Low Resolution, English High Resolution, and German.
Documents can be downloaded from the following links:
English Low Resolution (7.4MB): https://tdf.io/ar2016low
English High Resolution (22.7MB): https://tdf.io/ar2016high
German: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:TDF2016AnnualReportDE.pdf
The annual report is also available for print-on-demand on Lulu, at the following address: http://www.lulu.com/shop/the-document-foundation/annual-report-2016/paperback/product-23265884.html…
New page added: questions and answers about donations
The Document Foundation is very grateful to all contributions to LibreOffice, both in terms of time and money (donations). For the latter, we occasionally receive questions on various topics: the cost of donations, confirmation emails, refunds and rejected credit cards.
Usually we answer these individually, but now we’ve created a dedicated page on this blog with a list of questions and answers:
Click here to view the page
In addition, it can be accessed via the Donate menu in the top-right of the blog.…
Job Search for a Development Mentor
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be:
a Development Mentor
to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following:
- Self-starting, remote working experience
- Experience contributing to FLOSS communities
- C++ or LibreOffice coding experience
- Excellent communication skills
The role is a for a minimum of 10 hours per week, and includes amongst other items:
Supporting existing mentors in the LibreOffice community including:
- Building relationships between existing mentors and new contributors
- Identifying and onboarding new contributors
- Affirming and encouraging their contribution
- Building initial relationships with them
- Encouraging them to join IRC to meet the team
- Introducing them to domain experts for deeper learning
- Helping to educate new contributors by
- Positively reviewing their code contributions
- Introducing them to our tooling & culture
- Attracting new contributors by promoting the project
Previous experience with such tasks is highly welcome, so is using free software.…