Info on membership application number
As Sophie notes on the steering-discuss list, we already have about 100 membership requests. Wow!
The Document Foundation is open for members
With the last months the community around LibreOffice and The Document Foundation worked hard to establish policies, processes, infrastructure and all the things you need to deliver a high quality software. One of our basic principles is that we will acknowledge this merit and allow all the contributors to become official members of our community. All members will have the right to run for a seat in the Foundation’s Board of Directors, elect the board and drive the future of our projects.
From now on all of you can apply for membership via our webform. The Membership Committee is eager to receive your applications.
Please help us to process your request quickly. Read and follow the form’s introduction carefully, provide a good description of your contributions and list at least two contacts who can confirm your contributions.
The TDF Membership Committee,
Sophie Gautier, Fridrich Strba, André Schnabel, Cor Nouws
Links:
Application Form: http://www.documentfoundation.org/application-for-tdf-community-membership/
Community Bylaws: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
Information about the Membership Committee: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Committee
What we strive for
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice represent already a future path of development for the OOo community and the OOo code base, as it was originally announced on September 28, 2010.
The Document Foundation:
- Is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community.
- Continues to build on the foundation of ten years’ dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org Community.
- Was created in the belief that the culture born out of an independent Foundation brings the best in contributors and will deliver the best software for the marketplace.
The development of TDF community and LibreOffice is going forward as planned, and we are always willing to include new members and partners.
We will provide as many information as we can with the progress of the situation. We are currently making every possible effort to offer a smooth transition to the project.
Charles-H. Schulz,
On behalf of the Steering Committee
of the Document Foundation.
LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 1 available
Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the first beta release of LibreOffice 3.4. The upcoming 3.4 will be the second major release of the LibreOffice project, and comes with many exciting new features. Please be aware that LibreOffice 3.4 beta1 is not yet ready for production use, you should continue to use LibreOffice 3.3.2 for that.
The beta release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA builds download page at
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
Should you find bugs, please report them to the FreeDesktop Bugzilla:
For other ways to get involved with this exciting project – you can e.g. contribute code:
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/
translate LibreOffice to your language:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Translation_for_3.4
or help with funding our foundation:
http://challenge.documentfoundation.org
A list of known issues with 3.4 beta1 is available from our wiki:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.4/beta1
Please find the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.3.2 here:
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-release-3.3.99.1.log
Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having contributed to the LibreOffice project – this release would not have been possible without your help.
Yours,
The Steering Committee of The Document Foundation
Developer interview: Christina Rossmanith
In this developer interview we talk someone who started with helping out other developers by translating comments in the code from German to English.
“Translating of comments brings me across different parts of the code, so I get a feeling for LibreOffice.”
LibreOffice can only exist since people are working on it: so please ! tell us a bit about yourself.
In what other software projects have you been involved ?
None, this is my first project.
What do you do when you’re not working on LibreOffice ?
I’m working in the field of medical image processing (part time), bring my four daughters up,
play volleyball / coach volleyball girls, play flute, read, cook …
LibreOffice Portable 3.3.2 released
LibreOffice Portable 3.3.2 has been released. For more details, read the official press release at http://portableapps.com/news/2011-03-30_-_libreoffice_portable_3.3.2_released