The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Yesterday, we posted a video from the second session and now we have recording of the third session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
- 02:50 – Introduction round
- 29:20 – LibreOffice documentation
- 37:30 – Expenses and reimbursements
- 45:30 – Idea for members voting on technical decisions
- 1:07:20 – How to attract and retain members
- 1:19:20 – Projects in schools
- 1:33:20 – LibreOffice Online, the ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology
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FOSDEM 2022 will be a virtual event, taking place online on Saturday, February 5, and Sunday, February 6. The LibreOffice DevRoom is scheduled for Sunday, February 6, from 9AM to 7PM (times to be confirmed). If we will get more interesting talk proposals than the maximum number we can fit in one day, we will have the opportunity to extend the DevRoom to Saturday, February 5, in the afternoon.…
The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Here’s a recording of the second session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
- 03:20 – Introduction round
- 20:25 – LibreOffice and ODF in small/home offices and enterprises
- 1:01:32 – Documentation, and the ecosystem
- 1:51:40 – Reaching out to governments and organisations
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A quick news update from Germany: the upcoming coalition government endorses free and open source software. In the coalition agreement (German), there are some key sentences on this topic, for instance:
Development contracts will usually be commissioned as open source, and the corresponding software is generally made public.
Another section states:
In addition, we secure digital sovereignty, among other things through the right to interoperability and portability, as well as by relying on open standards, open source and European ecosystems, for example in 5G or AI.
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Brussels, November 26 – A coalition of EU software and cloud businesses joined Nextcloud GmbH in respect of their formal complaint to the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior in respect of its OneDrive (cloud) offering. In a repeat from earlier monopolistic actions, Microsoft is bundling its OneDrive, Teams and other services with Windows and aggressively pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft.…
