The Document Foundation will be releasing LibreOffice 4.0 in the beginning of February. It is a big and important release for us, and a major symbolic milestone. We have received questions and comments, however, that were basically about our reasons to change the major number, from the 3.x to the …
As the first post of 2013 I thought this would be quite interesting. OpenMandriva, the project continuing the development of the Mandriva Linux distribution is now fully incorporated as a French NGO (“Association de loi 1901”). What this means is nothing short of remarkable: We are witnessing (and in some …
Dear Readers, Thank you for following this blog. I know that some of you have been reading its since years now. I wish all of you a merry Christmas filled with joy and happiness. Melissa and I will spend Christmas around this beautiful tree at my parents’place in Paris. May …
The OpenMandriva community is moving on. The statutes of the “OpenMandriva Association” have been sent to the French authorities and the incorporation process has thus started. At the same time, preparations are ongoing to migrate both the actual development environment of the distribution and the entire community infrastructure. On top …
Several videos I really like about Paris, where I live, and Berlin,Germany’s capital and home of the Document Foundation. Enjoy! berlin hyper-lapse from b-zOOmi on Vimeo. Paris In Motion (Part I) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo. Paris In Motion (Part II) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
Sophie Gautier, one of the founders of the Document Foundation and currently a member of our membership committee has recently published a series of articles on how to become a contributor to the LibreOffice projects. Her blog posts do not cover the development side of the story, but they discuss …
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 …
On Thursday late afternoon we had a great Marketing and Strategy Workshop. The session was chaired by myself and Italo Vignoli, and Florian Effenberger’s presentation on the LibreOffice’s “Anthill” had been merged to the workshop. This allowed us to discuss the marketing strategy and community building for almost two hours. …
Two years ago, the OpenOffice.org community decided to break away from the domination of one vendor and instead create an independent foundation that would host the free and open source office suite “for the next decade”. I could not help but re-read a few of my posts then, you can …