The LibreOffice Project has been building an impressively rich and strong infrastructure in just a few years’ time. Today, I’d like to highlight not so much the quirks and the processes that support the everyday development or the flow of contributions, but rather the presence of the LibreOffice community on …
In this post I would like to report about the ad campaign that the marketing team organized on Facebook during the month of May and at the beginning of June. The experiment was interesting and while the results remain for large part hard to interpret, they also open new possibilities. …
Not a lot of people know that I’m a big fan of Balearic Music. What’s that? It’s electronic music with a certain state of mind; it’s usually categorized as Ambient/Chill Out, but there’s also House and more Trance-like music. The heart of this creative movement is based on Ibiza, but …
Here’s something funny: Many people complain about Google shutting down Google Reader, and frankly I also happen to use it myself. True enough, I tend to use it less and less with social networks but sometimes I do use news reader. The real issue that nobody really picked up is …
It’s been a good and busy week so far, and it’s not over yet with FOSDEM starting in Brussels on Saturday. It started with something I’m quite excited about: I got elected at the Board of Silicon Sentier. Silicon Sentier is the Parisian hub of innovation, collaboration and start-up incubation. …
Last Wednesday I was one of the speakers at an event organized by the french Terra Nova Foundation. The event itself was the publication of its much anticipated report on the state of “digital France”, which really means that the report covers a broad range of topics from I.T industry …
Next Saturday, the 15th of September, we will all celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2012. As usual, it will be a worldwide event with lots of big and small conferences, parties and presentations happening all around the globe and driven by teams of volunteers. Such a day highlights the momentum …
Recently the Mozilla Foundation announced a new orientation for their email client, Thunderbird. It caused quite a bit of discussion, and we, at the Document Foundation, received quite a lot of public and private feedback on this mostly in the form of: “Now that Mozilla is getting rid of Thunderbird, …
A few video picks gathered around the Nets… Enjoy the newborn Spring and happy Easter everyone. Congi – Somnium (Triangle/Circle/Square) from Paulo R on Vimeo. POP LE CHEVAL from Kristof Brandl on Vimeo. Madeon – Pop Culture (live mashup) from Harde Baas Paard Productions on Vimeo. She …