With the upcoming elections at the doorstep, many people ask themselves what it means to be in the Board of Directors, and whether they should run for a seat or not. Based on my experience with being in the board of the German association Freies Office Deutschland e.V., I would like to share
Foundation Archive
12 Jul 2011
Status of Establishing the Foundation
With this blog post, we’d like to share the status on our efforts to establish The Document Foundation as legal entity inside Germany.
Thanks to the invaluable work of our lawyer, we now finally have a close-to-final draft of the legally binding statutes. The creation of these took a lot of time, because many of the
15 Jun 2011
First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice
Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite
The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon
The Document Foundation today announced the first members of its Advisory Board: Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland e.V., Software in the Public Interest, and the Free Software Foundation. The new appointees will serve for an
03 Jun 2011
Updated list of TDF members
Our membership committee has just published an updated list of Document Foundation members.
…31 May 2011
Lanedo supports LibreOffice
In our recent announcement of the Engineering Steering Committee, we wrote that Michael Natterer from Lanedo is having a seat in this body, contributing further to the development of LibreOffice. Here’s their statement of support: “Lanedo is proud to support LibreOffice, and participate in development and inside the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC)” said
24 May 2011
Updates on the Foundation
Some time has passed since we announced that we reached the goal of our 50.000 € fundraising challenge. In the meantime, we’ve updated you on our legal process via this blog, and so I’d like to post another update on where we stand and what our roadmap is.
Numbers and Figures
Let’s have a look at