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.…
12 Jul 2011
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.…
09 Jul 2011
LibreOffice Conference registration is open
The registration for the LibreOffice Conference, taking place in Paris from October 12th to 15th, is now open. Everyone interested in joining the first annual meeting of the LibreOffice community is invited to register online at
http://conference.libreoffice.org/conference-registration/
to help the organizers in planning.
The LibreOffice Conference will be the event for those interested in the development of free office productivity software, open standards, and the OpenDocument format generally, and is an exciting opportunity to meet community members, developers and hackers.…
01 Jul 2011
LibreOffice 3.4.1 provides stable new features for every user
The Internet, July 1, 2011 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 3.4.1, the second version of the newer 3.4 family, targeting both private individuals and enterprises. LibreOffice 3.4.1 fixes several bugs that affected the previous version, and can be safely deployed for production needs by most users.
LibreOffice 3.4.1 can be downloaded from the following page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/…
28 Jun 2011
LibreOffice now available in German bookstores
We’re proud to announce that LibreOffice is now available in German bookstores via Open Source Press. Thanks, folks!
…19 Jun 2011
Developer Interview : Markus Mohrhard
Coding LibreOffice to relax a bit from studying tough mathematical problems? Read why and how Markus Mohrhard works on LibreOffice!
LibreOffice can only exist since people are working on it: so please ! tell us a bit about yourself.
…I’m a third year math student and have always been interested in computer science(which is even a subsidiary subject for me).