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Annual Report The Document Founda��on 2016 Annual Report Document Liberation Own your content Welcome This annual report is the sixth chapter in the story of a long journey, started by a group of people that were sharing the common goal of create something new – finally made by the community, for the community. Today, public administraons, enterprises and individual users worldwide can reap the benefits of the hard work made by a constantly growing community of volunteers and supporters. The report is a showcase of the acvies of the foundaon. Looking back, we have accomplished a large number of objecves in 2016 and we are on track for 2017. We have funded improvements to the organizaon and the product, and supported local acvies carried out by nave language projects. Behind the scenes, the foundaon is growing thanks to the commitment of an amazing group of people, with dozens of volunteers in every geography, and a Photo: Maeo G.P. Flora, CC BY-ND 2.5 few paid staff - led by Florian Effenberger - who take care of daily acvies related to documentaon, localizaon, markeng, design, development, QA, websites and system administraon. The management of a foundaon is somemes complicated; o5en you are called to take important decisions achieved only a5er longer debates. Thanks to the diverse approaches and aptudes the Directors are also focusing on new goals for keeping TDF in the right direcon. I would personally thank Thorsten Behrens, Osvaldo Gervasi, Jan Holesovsky, Andreas Mantke, Michael Meeks, Björn Michaelsen, Simon Phipps, Eike Rathke and Norbert Thiebaud for their big commitment to guide the foundaon where is it today. Not to forget the work of the Membership Commiee, led by Cor Nouws as Chairman with the help of Katarina Behrens, Stephan Bergmann, Antonio Faccioli, Gustavo Buzza# Pacheco, Gabriele Ponzo, Charles Schulz, Miklos Vajna and Klaus- Jürgen Weghorn. Of course, all this has been possible also thanks to the combined efforts of all donors and all members of TDF's Advisory Board, who have supported our work, focused on the growth of our ecosystem, thanks to their economic contribuons. The increasing number of migraons from proprietary soluons, in enterprises and public administraons worldwide, and the growing visibility of LibreOffice amongst office suites, are two clear signs that 2017 will be another great year for LibreOffice and the Document Liberaon Project. Sincerely, Marina Lani Chairwoman of the Board The Document Founda��on | 2016 Annual Report 3 Table of Contents 5 TDF in 2016 26 Documentaon 7 Financials and Budget 27 Infrastructure 9 LibreOffice in 2016 28 Website 11 LibreOffice Online 29 Blogs and Social Media 12 LibreOffice UX Concept 30 Markeng 13 LibreOffice Conference 31 Cerficaon 15 Nave Language Projects 32 Document Liberaon Project 19 Engineering Steering Commiee 33 Volunteers 20 Development 34 Top Contributors 22 Hackfests 35 TDF Team 23 Quality Assurance 40 Board of Trustees 24 Design 42 Advisory Board The Document Foundaon | 2016 Annual Report 4 TDF in 2016 2016 was the year that fully established LibreOffice as the reference for free office suites, and another busy year for The Document Foundaon, with four new Advisory Board members and a growing team. According to Google Trends, LibreOffice surpassed all Ubuntu OS and – with the announcement of LibreOffice other free office suites in early 2016 in terms of user 5.2 in August 2016 – was one of the first applicaons to be interest, winning a race that started in early 2011. At the available as a snap package. end of the year, Datamaon confirmed the leading In mid-August, the Free So5ware Foundaon Europe posion, with the first arcle about alternaves to (FSFE) joined TDF's Advisory Board, and at the same me LibreOffice. The Document Foundaon entered the group of FSFE Foundaon Bodies associated organisaons. These are enes that support the Free So5ware Foundaon by encouraging people to On 17 February 2016, the new Board of Directors started use and develop free so5ware, helping organisaons two years of tenure, with Marina Lani as Chairwoman, understand how free so5ware contributes to freedom, Michael Meeks as Deputy Chair, Thorsten Behrens, transparency and self-determinaon, and removing Osvaldo Gervasi, Jan Holesovsky, Simon barriers to free so5ware adopon. Phipps and Eike Rathke as members, and Andreas Mantke, Björn Michaelsen Team Members and Norbert Thiebaud as depues. Mike Saunders joined the TDF team in In September, TDF members voted to February, to help with markeng elect the new Membership Commiee, acvies based on his editorial which started duty at the end of 2016, background – including nave English with five members – Cor Nouws (chair), language skills – and his experience Katarína Behrens, Gustavo Buzza# with videos and social media. Mike Pacheco, Gabriele Ponzo and Miklos contributed to product Vajna – and four depues: Stephan announcements, the Annual Report, Bergmann, Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn, the months of LibreOffice, "New Charles-H. Schulz and Antonio Faccioli. Features" video playlists, and other projects (including blogs). New AB Members In March, Olivier Hallot was contracted In mid-June, the GNOME Foundaon to work on documentaon, a key and KDE e.V. joined TDF's Advisory feature for an end-user producvity Board, and at the same me TDF joined applicaon like LibreOffice. Olivier’s GNOME's and KDE's Advisory Boards, to experience in the area of large ghten the relaonships with other enterprise deployments is extremely large global free so5ware projects. Both important for improving help content GNOME and KDE are key components by using state-of-the-art technology, to of the FLOSS desktop iniave. coordinate the literature produced by At the end of July, Canonical – the LibreOffice volunteers and maintain a company behind the Ubuntu GNU/ set of updated books ready to be Linux operang system – also joined translated into as many languages as TDF's Advisory Board. Since its first possible, and implement a set of tools release in early 2011, LibreOffice has to improve the work of documenng been the default office suite of the LibreOffice's new features. The Document Foundaon | 2016 Annual Report 5 template as the TDF IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF MERITOCRACY LibreOffice website. Content was reorganized Board of Directors Advisory Board to simplify navigaon, by Foundation's legal representation grouping pages under Foundaon (Statutes, NOT a Financials and Advises 14 entities formal Affiliaons), Governance 7 + 3 2 (as of now) body members deputies years term (Foundaon Bodies and Members from around the globe, History), Community, e.g. Czech Republic, Germany, Cerficaon, Get Help Italy, UK, USA (Professional Support) Oversees Membership Committee and Contacts. Elections In August, TDF opened a Election of the Board bookshop on Lulu, where Complaints and Impeachment 5 + 4 2 Election of Committee members deputies years term people can buy a printed copy of the TDF Annual Board of Trustees (“Members“) Max. 10% of members Report. Acceptance at the begin of In early September, TDF each quarter Acceptance organised the LibreOffice 3 months active in Removal 189 1 community, 6 more to come, Conference in Brno, a members year term donation does not qualify large city in the Czech Republic. Supported by Canonical, CIB, Collabora, In May, Heiko Tietze was contracted as consultant to drive Red Hat and Google, with the partnership of the Faculty of LibreOffice's UX (user experience) one step further. Heiko Informaon Technology of Brno University of Technology, has been one of the most acve UX volunteers for several the conference brought together developers, community years, and has been instrumental in a number of UX members and users. improvements. In addion, he has coordinated UX- The conference was also an opportunity for a meeng of focused research, which has led to the development of the the Board of Directors, a meeng of the TDF team, and human interface guidelines (HIG), and to incremental UI several face-to-face meengs of volunteers acve in changes to menus and toolbars. localizaon and markeng. In September, Xisco Faulì joined the team as QA (quality In November, The Document Foundaon announced the assurance) Engineer, to help monitor and report about the new Extensions & Templates website, which offers an state of LibreOffice QA. In his role he helps to: maintain, improved user experience to both developers and end update and create feature patches for TDF's Bugzilla users. The site is now based on the latest version of the instance; organize and coordinate Bug Hunng Sessions; Plone open source content management system, and has test LibreOffice development builds daily on mulple been coordinated and developed by Andreas Mantke, a plaorms; run master builds to find regressions early in deputy member of the board at TDF. release cycles; run release tests on alphas, betas and release candidates to idenfy blockers; and triage Document Liberaon Project unconfirmed bugs on master. While LibreOffice is the flagship project of TDF, it's not the The last person to join the team in 2016 was Guilhem only one, and the Documentaon Liberaon Project Moulin, a French cizen living in Sweden, to take care of celebrated its second birthday in April 2016. DLP aims to TDF infrastructure. Aside from maintenance tasks, which consolidate the work done in LibreOffice by making are probably not seen by most members and contributors, conversion libraries, for a large number of open and Guilhem's goal are to implement Single Sign On to avoid proprietary file formats, available to other so5ware having a different set of credenals per service, and to projects. For more informaon, see the DLP secon. implement communicaon services such as Jitsi to support project acvies. So in all, 2016 was a year packed with achievements and posive news for The Document Foundaon. More LibreOffice developers and companies are joining our efforts, the conference was a great success, and LibreOffice is going At the me of the announcement of LibreOffice 5.1, TDF from strength to strength.
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