The Document Foundation
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| Founded | 28 September 2010 (announced) 17 February 2012 (legally established) |
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| Founder | Then-members of the OpenOffice.org community |
| Type | Community |
| Focus | Office software |
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| Products | LibreOffice, Document Liberation Project |
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Key people
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Thorsten Behrens, Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Adam Fyne, Joel Madero, Michael Meeks, Björn Michaelsen, Fridrich Štrba, Andreas Mantke, Eike Rathke, Norbert Thiebaud, Florian Effenberger |
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Staff
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6 |
| Website | www |
The Document Foundation (TDF) is a non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software. It was created by members of the OpenOffice.org community to manage and develop LibreOffice, a free and open source office suite, and is legally registered in Germany as a Stiftung. Its goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support in a development environment free from company control.
The Document Foundation was created partially over fears that Oracle Corporation, after acquiring Sun Microsystems, would discontinue developing OpenOffice.org as they had done with OpenSolaris.
The Document Foundation has multiple bodies running its operations:
In addition an informal advisory board exists to connect with other organizations and entities.
The third elected Board of Directors has seven members and three deputies. As of February 2016, the Board of Directors composition is:
The Document Foundation currently employs Florian Effenberger as Executive Director.
In June 2011 the foundation announced that it had formed an advisory board. The initial members included Google, SUSE, Red Hat, the German registered society Freies Office Deutschland e.V., Software in the Public Interest, and the Free Software Foundation. In February 2012, Intel became a member of the advisory board. In November 2012, Lanedo joined the Advisory Board. In June 2013, the French Inter-Ministry Mutualisation for an Open Productivity Suite (MIMO)—the government working group responsible for 500.000 desktops—and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia joined the advisory board. In July 2013, TDF announced that AMD joined the Advisory Board.
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