Simon Phipps today announced that the nominations for the board elections are now open.
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Election Announcement for The Document Foundation Board of Directors
Simon Phipps posted the following today on the announcement mailing list:
Having been asked by the Steering Committee and Membership Committee to act as the Elections Officer for The Document Foundation, it is my pleasure to announce that we will now conduct the election of a Board of Directors. This election is following the Bylaws [1] of our Foundation.…
What does it mean to be in the Board of Directors?
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 some thoughts with you.…
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 ideas and processes we have outlined in our Community Bylaws are innovative, and implementing them in a legal framework is indeed a challenge.…
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 initial term of one year.…
Updated list of TDF members
Our membership committee has just published an updated list of Document Foundation members.
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