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We have a DevRoom at FOSDEM!

LibreOffice has a DevRoom at FOSDEM!

FOSDEM is the premier open source developers conference, and the most significant developers conference for LibreOffice after the annual LibreOffice conference. Please find time to come if you can. Talk submissions about the LibreOffice project is welcome: development, infrastructure, marketing, code overviews, specific features etc. but must have a focus on, and be accessible to developers.

Here’s our Call for Papers: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2012

public BoD phone conferences every 2nd Wednesday

I am happy to announce, that the TDF BoD calls will take place every 2nd Wednesday at 1600 UTC, starting on November 16th, 2011, and are scheduled to run for one hour. Most calls will be public, but according to our Bylaws, there might be private calls as well. Their contents will be, in accordance with our Bylaws, be made public as soon as and when possible.

For every other week, i.e. on those Wednesdays when no calls are scheduled, we reserve the time slot for ad-hoc calls if they are needed. For urgent matters, ad-hoc calls can of course take place also on other days.

As usual, for the public calls, we welcome questions and comments from the audience, everyone who dials in can speak directly.

In order to help running the calls, please add your agenda items in advance to the public wiki, where also the dial-in details can be found. The appropriate page is:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetings

Looking forward to hearing you soon!

LibreOffice mail accounts

Back in the days of OpenOffice.org, contributors to the project were entitled to get an @openoffice.org e-mail address they could use for their project-related work. With LibreOffice, at the moment only official spokespersons and members of the BoD and MC have a @documentfoundation.org e-mail address.

We at TDF strongly believe in contributors identifying themselves with the work they do, with the community they’re engaged in, and with the software they develop, translate, document, market, provide infrastructure for and give users support for. Having an e-mail address that reflects their affiliation not only helps in making the community and the program better known, but also shows our apprecation and admiration for everyone contributing to their success.

I’m thus delighted to announce that, within the next weeks, we will be starting to provide @libreoffice.org e-mail addresses. They will not be only forwarders, but thanks to a generous sponsor, we will be able to offer IMAP mailboxes with 500 MB storage for free to everyone who is a Member of The Document Foundation. We’ll communicate more details directly to Members.

TDF announces its new Membership Committee

The Document Foundation is proud to announce its new Membership Committee today. The following individuals are its members:

  • André Schnabel
  • Fridrich Strba
  • Norbert Thiebaud
  • Simon Phipps
  • Sophie Gautier

The following individuals are its deputies:

  • Cor Nouws
  • Drew Jensen

The process of their nomination has been discussed publically. The role of the Membership Committee is defined in the Community Bylaws. Its mission is to administer membership applications and renewals, following the criteria defined in the Membership section of the Community Bylaws.

The Board of Directors congratulates the elected seat holders, looks forward to working with them in the future, and wishes them success in their so very important work for the Foundation.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation,
Florian Effenberger

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.4.4

LibreOffice on stage at the Libre Software World Conference in Zaragoza

The Internet, November 9, 2011 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 3.4.4, an improved version of the award-winning free office suite for Windows, Mac and Linux. LibreOffice has recently won InfoWorld’s BOSSIE Award 2011 as Best of Open Source Software, and the Open World Forum Experiment Award of Most-Popular Software.

SUSE’s Andras Timar, who manages the LibreOffice localization effort, says, “Thanks to the contribution of Michael Bauer, a volunteer who took the long-time-abandoned Scottish Gaelic version and produced a complete UI translation in just a few months, LibreOffice 3.4.4 adds yet another native-language version, bringing the total to 105. This shows the unparalleled value of copyleft licenses for end user software, as LibreOffice is now the most-important office suite when it comes to protecting cultural heritage worldwide, especially when the number of native speakers is not sufficiently attractive for large corporations to devote localization resources to.”

Today, TDF and LibreOffice will also be on stage at the Libre Software World Conference (LSWC) in Zaragoza, where Jesus Corrius – a deputy member of the TDF Board of Directors – will keynote about “TDF: the home of LibreOffice”. LSWC is the most-prominent free software event in Spain, and the presence of a member of the TDF Board of Directors is a testimonial of the efforts that the project is devoting to developing a large and diverse Spanish-speaking community, in which each local community in Europe and the Americas can grow and thrive within a single global project.

LibreOffice 3.4.4 is available for immediate download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice are available from the following link: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center.

Change logs are available at http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tdf/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-release-3.4.4.1.log (fixed in 3.4.4.1) and http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-4-release-3.4.4.2.log (fixed in 3.4.4.2).

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