Annual Report 2019: Marketing community activities
(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)
Ongoing Marketing Activities
Marketing at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice is a large team effort, with contractors paid for their activity – thanks to the money made available by our generous donors – and several volunteers, carrying out actions both at global and local levels to increase visibility and brand awareness.…
New Czech translation of Getting Started Guide 6.4
Zdenek Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech translation of the LibreOffice 6.4 Getting Started guide is now available! The history behind this book is quite long: first, another team translated the version 4.2 guide in 2014, but they never fully finished it (didn’t do corrections, publishing etc.) Then they started to update for version 5.1, but never finished the translation.
Announcing elections for the next TDF Membership Committee
Franklin Weng from The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors writes:
Dear Community,
we hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Membership Committee of The Document Foundation.
As per § 12 II of our statutes (binding version in German and non-binding translation), the Membership Committee’s term lasts two years. The current Membership Committee started its duty on September 19, 2018.…
Community Member Monday: Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
Today we’re talking to Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman from our Malaysian community. He’s a long-time fan of free and open source software, and is helping with LibreOffice advocacy and marketing…
To start off, tell us a bit about yourself!
I’m from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I started exploring and using FOSS way back in 2004 (Debian, Red Hat, the BSD family and sticking with Ubuntu till today) when I was studying at the university.…
LibreOffice Weekly Clippings – July 13, 2020
LibreOffice 7: Why a paid enterprise edition could be a positive change
LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite
The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice 7.0’s “Personal Edition” Branding
LibreOffice Might Delay Its “Personal Edition” Branding Or Change To “Community Edition”
…Marketing plan draft: Discussion about options available, and timetable
Lothar Becker, Chairman of The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, writes:
Dear community,
thanks for the feedback on the marketing plan draft via different channels so far. We want to let you know and have you take part, as the board is discussing the options now available with that draft.
In the meantime, some more feedback will be integrated in the document already and will be published on next Monday.…