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Posts by Florian Effenberger

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Welcome Vissarion Fisikopoulos, new LibreOffice developer focusing on Base - TDF Community Blog LibreOffice Base is the database component of the suite, and hasn’t seen a lot of development activity in recent years. So The Document Foundation – the non-profit behind the software – wants to chang...

Welcome to our colleague Vissarion! He is the new #LibreOffice developer from Greece, focusing on our database module Base. Together with the #community, he will work on the software, document and share knowledge & make the free office suite even better! blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04...

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LibreOffice LibreOffice is a free office suite

Thanks to the fantastic work of our worldwide #community, there is a shiny new #LibreOffice website online: www.libreoffice.org - translations are incoming too, as our community is active around the globe, with different languages!

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The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastruct...

What The Document Foundation Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going #LibreOffice #Community #Opensource

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LibreOffice: What we're doing, where we're going, and how you can help Grazer Linuxtage 2026 You surely know LibreOffice – the free and open source office suite and successor to OpenOffice(.org). But who's behind it, what are we working on, and how can everyone (yes, everyone!) help to make it even better? In this talk we'll give some updates on the suite and The Document Foundation – the non-profit behind it – and have time for some questions too!

#LibreOffice: What we're doing, where we're going, and how you can help - the presentation of my colleague Mike Saunders today at Grazer Linuxtage pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt26/talk/J...

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LibreOffice State of the Project (April 2025 – March 2026) - TDF Community Blog As promised, we are releasing the updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository. During the 12 months 295 developers worked ...

#LibreOffice State of the Project (April 2025 – March 2026) - TDF #Community Blog

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My 10 guiding principles for open source community management Many activities these days, be they sports, social work, arts or free and open source software, are organized in some sort of community.

My 10 guiding principles for open source community management. Published on opensource dot com six years ago, but still recent, and based on my #LibreOffice experience: opensource.com/article/20/4... (longer version and video on my personal website)

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Our sense of meritocracy - TDF Community Blog Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute...

Open source communities bring many talents together, and every aspect plays an important role and is equally important for its success. Read more about in the recent blogpost from Italo blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04...

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On the latest developments at #LibreOffice you can find more information from its nonprofit at blog.documentfoundation.org. We are transparent: The public forum with further information and references is at community.documentfoundation.org/c/board-disc...

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Jemand meiner Follower zufällig Kontakte zur #Telekom? Die Frage, welche Gebiete hier in Kaufbeuren/Allgäu „ab 2027“ Glasfaser erhalten sollen, scheint ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis zu sein. Vielleicht kann mir hier ja jemand, bei Bedarf auch vertraulich, genauere Infos geben.

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Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances - TDF Community Blog The European Commission has spent years advocating for open standards, vendor neutrality, and digital sovereignty. The European Interoperability Framework explicitly recommends open formats for public...

Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...

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The best feature about the new #Thunderbird version is „Read folders are now removed from Unread Folders view“. Thanks a bunch for that!

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LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to dev...

#LibreOffice Online: a fresh start: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02...

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Gibt es wirklich keine Möglichkeit, bei der #Telekom die passwortlose Anmeldung am #SIP Server zu deaktivieren? 🤔 #VoIP

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Happy Birthday, The Document Foundation, the nonprofit home of #LibreOffice. 14 years ago, the entity was incorporated in Berlin. It provides a safe, stable, enduring and independent home to the leading free office suite and all the fantastic people contributing to it.

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Mein Vortrag zu #LibreOffice auf der DigitalPlus-Konferenz in Berlin steht jetzt unter effenberger.org/vortraege/ online

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Auf dem Weg nach Berlin zur DigitalPlus-Konferenz, auf der ich #LibreOffice und The Document Foundation vorstellen werde

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Seit einigen Tagen scheint das Peering eines großen deutschen Providers zu einem großen CDN-Anbieter richtig grottig geworden zu sein. 🙄

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[VOTE] Revoke votes related to LibreOffice Online atticiziation and freezing of repository Dear Community, FOSDEM has been yet another venue where people have asked either the availability of an online version of LibreOffice or, for those that were aware of the existence, about the status/...

TDF's board revoked votes related to #LibreOffice Online atticiziation and freezing of repository. This is a very important step forward: community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-revok...

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DHL Express stellt hier regelmäßig Sendungen an eine Packstation oder Postfiliale in einen völlig anderen, mehrere Kilometer entfernten Stadtteil zu, obwohl es auf dem Weg von der ursprünglichen Packstation mehrere Optionen gibt. Was soll der Mist?

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Finally started to play with Home Assistant. I already like it a lot!

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E-mails from big companies with a link „Want to escalate to my manager? Click here!“ What a horrible management style and distrust in employees. I wonder if anyone really thinks this is a sensible thing to do.

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2026-02-10-IT-Werkstatt

Ich freue mich sehr, am 10. Februar bei der IHK Berlin das #LibreOffice-Projekt im Rahmen der Digital+ Konferenz vorstellen zu dürfen: events.ihk-berlin.de/b?p=20260210...

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Congratulations to the TDF Board of Directors for putting in place the Community Bylaws. These are a very important milestone in our foundation's governance, ensuring stability, safety and independence at the home of #LibreOffice

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Want to learn how to run a nonprofit free and open source foundation? I've shared some insight gained over the past 15 years at community.documentfoundation.org/tags/c/board...

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Updated Conflict of Interest Policy for TDF's Board of Directors - TDF Community Blog The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that...

TDF‘s board implemented an important improvement for our governance.

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Seems MikroTik has released an LTS version of RouterOS 7. 7.20.7 is now offered alongside 6.49.18

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Conference year is slowly starting. First destination early February: FOSDEM in Brussels where LibreOffice will have a booth, and lots of side events will take place. No speaking commitment for me, but I‘m working on some new talks and presentations for upcoming events.

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The foundation behind LibreOffice Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice LibreOffice is developed, tested, documented, translated and marketed by countless contributors from around the world and us...

The foundation behind #LibreOffice - Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation. My presentation from the Open Source Conference Luxembourg is now online peertube.opencloud.lu/w/otUXrLWS1s...

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Tux-Tage 2025 Samstag (Track A) YouTube video by Linux Guides

Warum Open-Source-Communities (nicht mehr) funktionieren - mein Vortrag auf den Tux-Tagen ist jetzt online: www.youtube.com/live/I2vfN8W...

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BoD-CodeofEthicsFiduciaryDuties-v1-2.pdf The Document Foundation Nextcloud - Fun Project - Fantastic People

The Document Foundation's Board of Directors approved a Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties: nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/GDbyZDNCdb...

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