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The Document Foundation:The Document Foundation:The open, transparent and meritocratic futureThe open, transparent and meritocratic future
of free office software of free office software
Florian Effenberger @floeffFOSS Backstage, June 14, 2018
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Who's waking me up?!
free software enthusiastfor over fourteen yearsfounding member and executive directorof The Document Foundationalso active in infrastructure and marketing
Terminology
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Double meaningLibreOffice is
1. the leading free office productivity suiteinstalled by millions of users worldwide2. a wonderful worldwide community (“project”)with hundreds of friends and contributors around the globe
The Document Foundation (TDF) as legal entity isa nonprofit ”Stiftung” (foundation) based in Berlin”The objective of the foundation is the promotion and development of office software available for use by anyone free of charge”does not contain a product name on purpose
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Our philosophysupporting the development of both product and communityevents, knowledge sharing, mentoringbuilt on the community’s values and idealsthrough statutes that enforce openness and transparencyindependent from one single sponsor70,000+ individual donations per yearecosystem for contributors and commercial stakeholderscertification, joint development effortslower entry barriers: Easy Hacks, Hackfests, GSoC mentoring, workshopscooperations with other entities: e.g. OASIS, OSI, KDE, GNOME, FSFE, FSF→ ”by the community, for the community“
The Foundation
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Why all this fuss?enduring and stable(“foundations are for eternity“)foundation’s objective can not be changedsafety for community, end-users and the ecosystemacts as ”trustee” for trademarks and domainshandles donations and manages budgetsis not part of the commercial ecosystem itselfguarantees rights for all participants
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How we are structured
Board of Trustees (“Members”)currently 193 individuals working on foundation’s goals - approved for one year, once per quarter -
active in community for 3 months, 6 more planned, donations do not qualify
Board of Directorsfoundation’s legal representative
7 members and 3 deputies, term of 2 yearsfrom around the globe, currently: Italy, UK,
Germany, Netherlands, Taiwan, Czech Republic
M’Commitee5+4 members
term of 2 yearsmax. 10% of members
election of board
organizeselections
election of committeeapproval/revocation
Adv’Boardorgs & companies,
not formal body of TDF
gives advice
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The Advisory BoardAdvisory Board supports and advises Board of Directorscompanies and organizations (no individuals) with
either direct connection to LibreOfficeor long experience with FLOSS
based on sponsorshipcurrently 16 membersone meeting with the board per quarternon-confidential slides shared with our trustees afterwards
Public by default
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In the statutes“one-third rule” to prevent conflict of interestopenness and transparency
all board meetings are publichttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Meetingsall decisions of the bodies are publichttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisionsthe accounting is publichttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Ledgersthe board’s mailing list is publicprivate decisions are made public as soonas the confidentiality is resolved
The present
LibreOffice
Source: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Wallpaper-LibreOffice-2-1920px.png Author: Paulojose
leading free office suite for Windows, Linux and macOSavailable in more than 100 languages (“digital participation”)time-based releases: two major releases per year, bugfixes ~6 weekstwo versions (as of now 6.0 and 5.4) maintained, plus Android ViewerLibreOffice 6.1 ~Jul: usability features, online improvements, icon sets
LibreOffice Online
https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/
runs natively in the browserintegrates with storage & authcollaborative editingsame rendering of documents as desktop versionDocker container available
Document Liberation Project
filter for legacy and proprietary formatsremoves vendor lock-ingives users access again to their dataprovides a path towards the Open Document Formatmade by volunteers during LibreOffice developmentlibrary now used in many other open source projectsin line with TDF’s mission and FLOSS ideals
Our annual report
jointly written with the community in EN+DEturned our legal obligation into a benefitoverview on foundation, community,project, software, events, budgetEnglish version:https://tdf.io/ar2016lowGerman version:https://tdf.io/bericht20162017 report available around late Q2written and approved, currently being layouted
The future
YYOOUU DDEECCIIDDEE!!
What’s going on?
new Membership Committee - election during summer -accessibility improvements - just published -https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/07/welcome-gla11y-the-user-interface-accessibility-checker/
a new help system - since LibreOffice 6.0 -https://help.libreoffice.orgLibreOffice Conference in Tirana - in September -https://conference.libreoffice.orgHave a proposal? Let us know!https://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/grant-request/or: [email protected]
A wonderful community of friends
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Join us, it’s fun!
LibOCon 2016 in Brno (picture by Jiří Eischmann)
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Thank you very much!
Getting in touche-mail: [email protected]: @floeffprivate blog: https://blog.effenberger.org
