The Document Foundation and LibreOffice (openSUSE Conference, October 22nd 2010 in Nuremberg)

Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member at The Document Foundation openSUSE Conference, Nuremberg October 22 nd , 2010

Who's that guy?
joined the OpenOffice.org Community in 2004
Marketing Project Lead
Distribution Project Lead
Board Member of German nonprofit OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.
Steering Committee and Founding Member The Document Foundation

A (very) brief history of time
2000/10/13: OpenOffice.org Project launched
one of the largest projects, 20% market share
most code contributions by main sponsor and most other contributions by volunteers
many processes and legal assets in the hand of one corporate sponsor
2010/09/28: leading Community members announced the creation of The Document Foundation

Tell me more...
main reason is driving forward the Community
part of the original charta of the project, believing in Community-driven development
evolution and next logical major step (“the next decade”)
fits our values and the Community way of working
independent from one single corporate sponsor
new ecosystem for contributions and benefits
lowering the barrier for taking part

My first try at tag clouds... open independent meritocratic contributors users supporters effective efficient transparent inclusive Community-based development model

Who's in?
major distributors will ship LibreOffice in their next releases
15 fulltime developers from Novell and Red Hat
support from
Google
Free Software Foundation
Canonical
Open Source Initiative
GNOME Foundation
NeoOffice
driven by national organizations like German OOoDeV, Italian PLIO and BrOffice.org

Numb3rs are cool!
the first week
more than 80.000 downloads
80 code contributions
currently
51 worldwide mirrors distributing LibreOffice
65 new code contributors (!)
4.000 announce subscribers
1.500 subscriptions to our discussion lists

Status quo
Foundation has not been set up yet -> join us NOW and help shaping it
interim Steering Committee to drive forward the process of creation
OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. as interim legal entity for assets and donations
building up infrastructure: lists, CMS, l10n
LibreOffice 3.3 will be available this fall

I wanna be in!
good: donate money
better: spread the word
best: start contributing NOW to
code and QA
translation and localization
website and marketing
infrastructure
support from corporations highly welcome

What about Oracle?
has been invited to join the Foundation and to donate to the Community the brand it shaped during the past decade
based on our meritocratic approach and Oracle's valued contributions, they would play an important role in the Foundation
Oracle will not join

Shameless self-advertising
OpenOffice.org-Kongress für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung (Business and Administration Congress)
November 16 th and 17 th in Munich
dedicated TDF track and panel discussion
www.OOoKWV.de

Thank you! Questions? E-Mail: [email_address] Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff www.documentfoundation.org www.libreoffice.org

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice (openSUSE Conference, October 22nd 2010 in Nuremberg)

by Florian Effenberger on Oct 23, 2010

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