Thanks to donations to The Document Foundation, along with valued contributions from our community, we maintain a small team working on various aspects of LibreOffice including documentation, user interface design, quality assurance, release engineering and marketing. Together with Italo Vignoli, I help with the latter, and today I’ll summarise some of the achievements so far in 2017.…
Category: Team
Introducing Teodor Mircea Ionita, aka Shinnok, TDF Development Mentor
Starting from July, the TDF team has increased by one unit with the arrival of Teodor Mircea Ionita, aka Shinnok, in the role of Development Mentor.
Teodor has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Iasi in Romania, his native country and city, where he is still living.
We asked Teodor a couple of questions in order to introduce him to the LibreOffice community.…
TDF Team’s Interviews: Christian “Cloph” Lohmaier
Christian “Cloph” Lohmaier has been LibreOffice’s release manager for quite a long time. We asked him some questions, to not only get better knowledge about his daily activities, but find out his opinions about The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.
Q1. What is the typical day of a release manager?
Release manager is not a single-day job.…
Interview with Florian Effenberger, TDF Executive Director
The typical day of an executive director
My work consists of both administrative tasks – like accounting, correspondence, budget and contractual topics – as well as overseeing our team and making projects come to life. Whenever I have some spare time, I try to contribute to the German native-language community, the marketing project and our infrastructure.…
Marketing & PR at TDF in the second half of 2016
In terms of marketing and PR, a large free software project is quite similar to a large corporation. In fact, activities are following each other without interruption: major and minor product announcements, global events and local events, community fostering projects, and day to day activities (such as working with journalists).
In addition, there are the so called back office activities, which are instrumental for the success of the main ones but are less visible (and usually tedious).…
Mike’s marketing activities, July – December 2016
Donations to The Document Foundation help us to maintain a small team, working on various areas of the project including documentation, user interface design, quality assurance, release engineering and marketing. I help out with the latter, and as we come towards the end of 2016, I want to talk about some of the things I’ve been working on in the last six months.…