John McCreesh, a founding member of The Document Foundation and the author of the project “manifesto“, has suddenly passed away on Saturday, January 16, at the age of 61.
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24 Jan 2016
R.I.P. John McCreesh
19 Oct 2015
Announcement elections for the Board of Directors
Cor Nouws, Chairman of TDF’s Membership Committee, announced the following today:
Dear Community,
We hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.
As per § 7 II of our statues, [1] the Board’s term lasts two years. The current board started its duty on February 18, 2014.…
01 Jul 2015
Behind the scenes at TDF: Openness, transparency and projects
by Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of TDF
Florian Effenberger
With the second quarter being over, the longest day of the year having passed by, and summer vacation time coming up for many of us, it’s time to look back what happened at TDF the first six months of the year. With many projects, activities and developments going
19 Jun 2015
Publication of TDF Ledgers
TDF has begun publishing the accounting ledgers to the general public. As part of the foundation’s transparency and openness principles, TDF is committed to publishing the accounting ledgers on a regular basis from now on.
Accounting is done by a professional accountant, and the resulting ledgers are slightly anonymized and translated. The style of the ledgers is defined by our
03 Jun 2015
Read about The Document Foundation achievements in 2014: download the Annual Report!
The Document Foundation (TDF) is proud to announce its 2014 Annual Report, which can be downloaded from the following link: http://tdf.io/report2014 (3.2 MB PDF). The version with HD images can be downloaded from
20 May 2015
Behind the scenes at TDF: Localization and Native-Language Projects
Sophie Gautier has been a member of the OpenOffice.org project since its beginning, and then a founding member of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. She is extremely active in the Francophone and international community, and is a staff member of The Document Foundation. She takes care of the French translation of LibreOffice (interface and help), is a