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.…
13 Dec 2016
Mike’s marketing activities, July – December 2016
12 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #12: Rob Weir on ODF
Open Document Format (ODF) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and of many other enterprise and personal productivity applications. ODF is an XML-based open standard file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, text documents, and presentations. ODF is application-, platform-, and vendor-neutral, and thereby facilitates broad interoperability of office documents.
ODF is the only true standard file format for office documents, but is still lesser known than proprietary file formats, although countries such as UK, France, the Netherlands and Sweden in Europe and Taiwan in Asia have recognized it as the preferred file format for government documents.…
12 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #11: ODF vs OOXML
Andy Updegrove is a standards advocate, and has supported ODF since its inception. He is the author of Consortium Info, and of the related blog about standards.
Between November 2007 and January 2008 he has summarized in a series of five blog posts what he has defined “a standards war of truly epic proportions: the ongoing (at the time), ever expanding, still escalating conflict between ODF and OOXML, a battle that is playing out across five continents and in both the halls of government and the marketplace alike”.…
10 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #10: ODF Guide for Migrations to LibreOffice
“ODF Guide, a reference document for open standards implementation” (PDF) has been published in July 2015 by Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, General Department, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
The 70 page document has been edited by Gustavo Buzzati Pacheco, a long time member of the Brasilian community, and now a member of TDF Membership Committee.…
09 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #9: TDF Blog Planet
TDF Blog Planet is one of the best resources to stay updated with the project, and get to know some of the most active contributors through their writings.
Contributors to the planet are: Akshay Deep, Andras Timar, Andreas Mantke, Andrzej Hunt, Björn Michaelsen, Caolán McNamara, Cedric Bosdonnat, Charles Schulz, Chris Sherlock, Christoph Noack, Collabora Community, Cor Nouws, Daniel Bankston, David Ostrovsky, David Tardon, Dennis Roczek, Efe Gürkan Yalaman, Eike Rathke, Eilidh McAdam, Florian Effenberger, Florian Reisinger, Fridrich Strba, Goran Rakic, Gökçen Eraslan, Gülşah Köse, Italo Vignoli, Jacobo Aragunde Pérez, Jan Holešovský, Jan Iversen, Jaskaran Singh, Jean Hollis Weber, Jiri Eischmann, Joel Madero, Kohei Yoshida, Lanedo, Leif Lodahl, Lera Goncharuk, LibreLogo, LibreOffice Design Blog, LibreOffice Documentation, Lior Kaplan, Loïc Dachary, Luboš Luňák, Marc-André Laverdière, Marius Popa Adrian, Marketing Team, Markus Mohrhard, Matteo Campanelli, Michael Meeks, Michaël Lefèvre, Mihai Varga, Mike Kaganski, Miklos Vajna, Naruhiko Ogasawara, Official TDF Blog, Petr Mladek, Pranav Kant, Rachit Gupta, Rafael Dominguez, Robinson Tryon, Rosemary Sebastian, Samuel Mehrbrodt, Siqi Liu, Stephan Bergmann, Susobhan Ghosh, Szymon Kłos, TDF Infrastructure Status, Tamas Zolnai, Thorsten Behrens, Tim Janik, Tomaž Vajngerl, Tor Lillqvist, User Prompt, Vishv Brahmbhatt and WorldLabel.…
08 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #8: Ask LibreOffice
Ask LibreOffice serves as a collaborative platform on which LibreOffice users, volunteers, developers, and other community members can come together to ask and answer questions about LibreOffice, TDF, and related matters.
The easiest way to contribute to the Ask LibreOffice site is to hop in and ask or answer questions. If you’re new to the site, or looking for some guidance on how to get the most out of the site, please see: Ask/Getting Started.…