Hi :) WooooHoooo! Superb!! Great news and an excellent announcement! I usually find some minor point to criticise and sometimes worry that detracts from the main messages but this time there was not a single petty thing wrong i could find anywhere. Really great news! 60 million! Over 100 languages!
Congrats and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Italo Vignoli <italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org> >To: annou...@documentfoundation.org >Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 8:43 >Subject: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice Conference opens in Berlin > >LibreOffice Conference, Berlin, October 17, 2012 - Florian Effenberger, >Chairman of the Board of The Document Foundation, has officially opened >the 2nd LibreOffice Conference (http://conference.libreoffice.org) >addressing the authorities and the community members gathered in the >capital city of Germany from the five continents. > >"As of today, LibreOffice is being used by close to 60 million people. >It is the standard free office suite on all major platforms, available >in over 100 languages. Large cities and organizations are deploying it >very successfully, more and more schools and universities are rolling it >out, and there's not a single month where it is not covered by major >media around the globe – because we always have good news to share. The >Document Foundation has become a member of leading organizations for >free software and open standards, and at the very same time, is widely >seen as a the leader in its area, built on strong reputation and >credibility. Last but not least, the ecosystem is growing rapidly, as >more and more enterprises discover the business benefit of truly free >software." > >"We are now a family of thousands of contributors around the globe. I >not only have colleagues all over the world, but more important, true >friends, and I am honoured to be part of a large family. Everyone with >their very own story, their very own background, and their very own >skills. Different ages, cultures and languages, all united by one goal: >providing the best free office suite ever, and giving power to those who >contribute by passion. By living our values day by day, we make possible >what we never dared to dream of two years ago." > >LibreOffice Conference 2012 is hosted by the Federal Ministry of the >Interior (http://www.bmi.bund.de) and the Federal Ministry of Economics >and Technology (http://www.bmwi.de) he Federal Republic of Germany, and >Freies Office Deutschland e.V. The event is sponsored by Canonical >(http://www.canonical.com), Google (http://www.google.com), SerNet >(http://www.sernet.de), bitbone (http://www.bitbone.de), Lanedo >(http://www.lanedo.com), Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com) and Univention >(http://www.univention.de). > >The main conference sessions will be broadcast online, while all >sessions will be recorded and made available on the conference website. >To access both real time and recorded video, the infrastructure team has >created a single webpage at http://conference.libreoffice.org/streams. > >LibreOffice 3.6.2 is available for immediate download from the following >link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice >are available from the following link: >http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center. When downloading the >software, you might consider about donating some money to The Document >Foundation for the development of LibreOffice and the growth of the >community, by accessing our donation page at http://donate.libreoffice.org. > >About The Document Foundation (TDF) > >The Document Foundation is an open, independent, self-governing, >meritocratic organization, which builds on ten years of dedicated work >by the OpenOffice.org Community. TDF was created in the belief that the >culture born of an independent foundation brings out the best in >corporate and volunteer contributors, and will deliver the best free >office suite. TDF is open to any individual who agrees with its core >values and contributes to its activities, and warmly welcomes corporate >participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals >alongside other contributors in the community. As of September 30, 2012, >TDF has over 150 members and over 3.000 volunteers and contributors >worldwide. > >-- >Italo Vignoli - Director >phone +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli >email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org >The Document Foundation >Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany >Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts >Legal Details: www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
