(Business Wire) 28 September 2010

The community of volunteers, and develop and promote OpenOffice.org, which proclaim free desktop software, the foreground is a substantial change in the project? the structure?. After ten years? successful growth with Sun Microsystems as a founding member and principle sponsor, launched the project of an independent foundation “The background paper, written to fulfill the promise of independence in the original charter.

Foundation, the foundation stone for a new ecosystem in which individuals and organizations benefit from the availability of a truly free office suite can help. There is more competition and choice for the benefit of customers and promotes innovation in the market for office suite. From now on, the OpenOffice.org community will be known as “The background paper”.

Oracle, which acquired the assets of OpenOffice.org after the acquisition by Sun Microsystems, has been invited to join the new foundation, and give the brand community has developed over ten years. Pending a decision, the brand “libre office” for the software has been chosen in the future.

foundation document is the result of a joint effort by major independent members of the former OpenOffice.org community, including the project manager and several key members of the council. He will initially be led by a steering committee of developers and project managers of the national language. The Foundation will lower the barrier to adoption for both users and developers to use libre office the office suite.

foundation coordinates and monitors the development of libre office, either in the beta on the website placeholder: http://www.libreoffice.org. Developers are invited to join the project and contribute code to the new environment friendly and open to the future of the office suites together with participants, which, test translation, document, support and shape to support the software.

For the group of volunteers, Sophie Gautier – said – a veteran of the old town and the project language French language: “We believe that the foundation is an important step in the evolution of free office suite, because it frees the code development and development of the project constraints of the commercial interests of a single company represented. supporters of free software in the world the extraordinary opportunity, the group have to join the founding members of today to write a new chapter in the history of FLOSS. “


FSF president Richard Stallman

welcomed the release libre office and is the declared policy not to recommend a free software. “I am delighted that do not recommend the foundation document nonfree add-ons, because they are the main problem of freedom of the current OpenOffice.org. I hope that developers and libre office Oracle employees of OpenOffice can link to the development of the body of the codes together. “

“The Foundation supports the Open Document Format documents and is prepared to work with OASIS on the next evolution of the ISO standards,” said Charles Schulz, a member of the council and the Federation shall have indigenous languages. “The background paper on the table brings the perspective of developers, supporters and users, which could accelerate the adoption of ODF in government agencies and businesses.”

Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, Inc., commented: “The founding of the document is an important step in promoting the development of open-source office suites with a level playing field for all participants is important. in creating a broad and active community around a project with open source software. Google a proud supporter of the Foundation and is participating in the project documents. “

“Viva la libre office,” said Guy Lunardi, Director of Product Management at Novell. “We are pleased with the Foundation paper work to document a firm offer of free software. Ultimately, we want to do for the office market libre office productivity that Mozilla Firefox has done for the Mariners.”

Jan Wildeboer, Red Hat EMEA open source affairs, said: “.. In the world, users, companies and governments has on innovative technology solutions based on open standards Turning Red is proud to join in this effort,”

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and principal shareholder of Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, said: “Office productivity software is an essential office software free, and the Ubuntu project is to be happy, the ship libre office founding document in future versions of Ubuntu. Stewardship Foundation Paper libre office Ubuntu gives developers an effective forum for cooperation in the code, Ubuntu makes an effective solution for the office in office environments. “

“The Open Source Initiative has opened a trend to return to collaborative communities for open source software,” said Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Initiative. “We welcome the initiative to document the foundation and we look forward to innovation, it is capable of driving a truly open community together around a common open-source software, in the spirit of the best open-source software.”

“We welcome the draft libre office of the open source community we believe it is an excellent opportunity for them to enrich the experience of free desktop,” said Stormy Peters, managing director of the GNOME Foundation. “Over the years, the GNOME community have been favorable and the OpenOffice.org suite applications, GNOME Office, such as Gnumeric, Abiword and GnuCash. As libre office joins the free software community, we believe that users of screen free use of a variety of ways. “

Luby, chief engineer of NeoOffice said: “I am pleased to see, create a new independent foundation to continue libre office is an office suite with advanced functionality, OpenOffice.org press in exciting new directions.” Peterlin, NeoOffice visionary leader said: “I am pleased we will continue to provide excellent properties libre office on the Mac platform in the future I would like to extend support to our Web collaboration tools to users libre office on all platforms..”

Chris Hall, UK CEO credativ specialized independent consulting and services company in the development, implementation and support of open source solutions, “welcomes the establishment as an opportunity for a new direction to give contributors to the community and allow them the project move forward together. In our business, we support thousands of desktop workstations in many different environments. It is important that the evaluations and the code that can help us as part of our daily work can easily flow into the project. “

“The founding of the document is consistent with the vision BrOffice.org -. Projeto Brasil Brazilian community for OpenOffice.org Our country already suporting a great investment in the OpenDocument format and software tools fully. BrOffice.org Foundation document and share the same values and goals and we are more than happy to be part of it, â € said Claudio Filho, President of the NGO BrOffice.org

Brazil.

the Norwegian Foundation Apne kontor på norsk program “(” Open Office Suites In Norwegian “) is responsible for promoting the Norwegian translation of OpenOffice.org and OpenOffice.org in Norway. So far, the Norwegian project managed and primarily funded by counties and municipalities, but recently the Foundation has involved a process to get commercial companies to participate more actively. We recognize the need for a substantial business for the long-term sustainability to establish. Our Foundation notes that the other Nordic countries, the majority of European States and worldwide, a number of large companies like Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical is now cooperating with the Foundation paper. We believe it is the right way to Norway. The collaboration with the Foundation paper, it will be easier, more innovative and user-friendly integrated following libre office draw. The elimination of license and easy access to the source code and standards to facilitate the development of integrated products and meaningful environment.

information, including the mission on the website of the Foundation document: http://www.documentfoundation.org

biographies and photos of the founding members of the Foundation document can be found here: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/

It is a special page for people to contribute to the development of the code interested in: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/

Document Foundation has a Twitter account and an account http://twitter.com/docufoundation http://identi.ca/docufoundation Identi.ca

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The listserv is to discuss subscribe@documentfoundation.org +

The IRC channel on irc.freenode.net # document foundation

Foundation Paper

Foundation is an independent democratic self-governing foundation document that established by former leading members of the OpenOffice.org community. Continue on a foundation of ten years work by the OpenOffice.org community to build and was convinced that the independence of the Foundation for the best fit to the fundamental values of the community is based of openness, transparency and respect for human their contributions. It is open to everyone with our basic values and contributes to our business, and welcomes the participation of undertakings, such as by sponsoring people working right next to another participant in the community.

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