Growing the community – the case for a jumpstart

There are several projects that can boast a clear track record of attracting, building and growing a community. LibreOffice is one of them, and so was his parent, OpenOffice.org . I’m not specifically speaking about the developers’ community, but rather about the worldwide community of localizers, QA testers, documentation writers …

Special Announcement: Mandriva invests in Formula 1 racing

Special Announcement: Mandriva invests in Formula 1 racing

For more information please visit Mandriva’s announcement blog.

For more information please visit Mandriva’s announcement blog.

Celebrate Open Standards and Document Freedom on the 27th of March !

More information available on the Document Freedom website Other links of interest: OpenDocument Format Information site (OASIS) LibreOffice PDFReaders

No Google Reader? No Problem!

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 …

On keeping a name relevant

“Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards”. This blog has been going on under that title for quite some time; since September 2007 exactly. I ran an older blog without the same name and title. These days, I’m still in the ODF development and promotion in various capacities, but I …

Hommage to Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, an immense poet from Portugal has written texts and poems I deeply enjoy reading. I thought I would be paying a small hommage today. In his poem “O Bandarra” which is part of the famous suite “Mensagem” (Messages) he writes about a Portuguese national figure, Bandarra. But oddly …

The great 4.0 wrap-up

We had an amazing success with the release of LibreOffice 4.0. New website pages, a flurry of articles (Time Magazine, ZDNet, TechCrunch Ars Technica, Computerworld, Slashdot, just to name a few), and a generally good feedback. We’re collecting as much data as we can to see how far we went …

Seagulls (nothing subliminal here)

If you were expecting a post on the LibreOffice 4.0 release, well this one is not quite about it (I’ll post something on this topic later on this month), but I just wanted to share this short film on this blog. It’s called seagulls, and while there’s “nothing subliminal about …

A good week

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. …

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