We’re at Google+

If you are using Google+, Google’s social network, from today on, you can show your support and appreciation to LibreOffice and TDF. We have created our own sites there, and invite you to join us!

Status quo on the Foundation, October 2011

It has been a while since I have blogged about the Foundation status, but the Steering Committee have been very active on this topic in the meantime. Now that we are handing over to the new Board of Directors, it is good to document where we have reached.

First, we are delighted that the elections of the first BoD are now official.…

Document Foundation Board 2011: Final Results

Simon Phipps posted this today to the announcement mailing list:

“Having received no objections to the preliminary election results I posted on October 20th within the period described in the election rules, it is now my pleasure to declare the results of the 2011 Board elections for The Document Foundation.

I declare the following Members of The Document Foundation duly elected as Board Members:

  • Thorsten Behrens
  • Florian Effenberger
  • Olivier Hallot
  • Michael Meeks
  • Caolán McNamara
  • Charles-H Schulz
  • Italo Vignoli

I declare the following Members of The Document Foundation duly elected as Deputies:

  • Jesús Corrius
  • Andreas Mantke
  • Bjoern Michaelsen

Full election materials can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2011/

LibreOffice Extensions and Templates Repository is online

Are you looking for ways to enhance your free office suite? Do you need some nice templates? The Document Foundation is proud to announce that today, the LibreOffice Extensions and Templates repository has been put online at

http://extensions.libreoffice.org
and
http://templates.libreoffice.org

This new website is one of the many community efforts at the LibreOffice project. Led by Andreas Mantke, a team of international community volunteers has worked hard during the past weeks to make this new repository possible, to the benefit of millions of LibreOffice and free office users worldwide.…

Document Foundation Board 2011: Preliminary Results

The election results have been processed using OpenSTV by multiple members of the Membership Committee, and I am now confident that we have a result ready for review pending confirmation next week. Full election materials can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2011/

PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Candidates are sorted here in their order of overall preference after all preferences have been considered according to the Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold method.…

LibreOffice Conference Announcements

During the LibreOffice Conference, The Document Foundation has announced:

  • LibreOffice Online Prototype: you can watch a demo video at the following address:
    http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-10-10-lool-demo.webm. LibreOffice Online is based on GTK+ framework and HTML5’s canvas, and has been developed by SUSE’s Michael Meeks, built on GTK+ broadway from RedHat’s Alex Laarson.
  • LibreOffice port project to Android and iOS, based on the voluntary work of Tor Lillqvist, a SUSE finnish developer know for having ported GIMP to Windows.