 The state-of-the-project speeches are a little bit of a tradition of TDF. It gives you an idea of what we have done during the last 12 months. Actually, looking at our history, I think that now we can say that we all share a four-year-long dream. Being one of the founders and being Michael and Florian who will be contributing to the speech are both founders as myself. I think that, going back four years, more or less these days, four years ago, we were in Budapest for the OpenOffice.org conference. And we have the first and last meeting, face-to-face meeting before the fork. Actually, it was on the second, so I think just four years ago. And if we could dream at the time where we would be after four years, I don't think that not even dreaming really in a crazy way, we would have thought that we would be here. Not just, I mean, not here in terms of burn as a city, but here in terms of the size of the project, the story of the project, what we have achieved in four years, what has happened around us in four years. And so I would like to give you a little bit of a different view of what we have done, just trying to organize in cycles what has happened so far. Let's say that we have four releases, including the first beta, that were the first cycle, the very first cycle, and the project was led by a steering committee. The steering committee was a result of that meeting on September 2, 2010, and it actually managed to give a formal shape to the project, because I think that four years ago there were many ideas, many, many nice ideas, but not a shape. Now there is a foundation, there are roles, organization, there is a structure, so it's a completely different story. Then between March 2012 to February 2014, there has been the first generation board of directors. I say first generation because it was more or less an heritage of the steering committee, and anyway it was, most of the founders were in the first generation board of directors. In February, March 2014, there is a new generation board of directors, and I show you why. These are the members of the board of directors. You can see that only two persons are founders of the project. Everyone is deeply involved in the project, but there are only two founders, there are a number of people that are first generation, and with first generation I say they came into the project while the steering committee was in charge, so during the first two years. And then you have a number of people that are second generation, which means that they were attracted and came into the project while the first generation board of directors was there. So they are completely new. They are new, they are bringing new ideas, they are bringing new ways of doing stuff. Of course the founders have probably shared a common problem. They've all been influenced by ten years of history, which is not a problem, it's a problem and a virtue at the same time, but we were all deeply involved in the OpenOffice.org project. And of course if you want to innovate, you cannot just look at the past, you have to look at the future. Having new people inside the board of directors is absolutely an advantage. And what has happened in terms of the product, this is not a view that maybe is not shared by developers or is just partially shared by developers, but this is what someone like me that is not technically skilled can understand by looking at the project a little bit from outside. So the first two years, so 2011, 2012, were a lot about refactoring the code, cleaning the code, making the code more modern. I know that there is still quite a lot to go there, but we are in a completely different position from 2010 when the four happened. And then in 2013, 2014, the new major releases, it's all about improving features and improving performances. Of course there is still refactoring there as if there were new features there, but I think that the focus is now changing a little bit. The fact that we have companies like CloudOn that have decided to base on LibreOffice their developments is significant in the sense that it's a recognition of this kind of work that has been done and of course it's contributing a lot on this kind of stuff. And there will be, I can tell you that there will be other companies that will be announcing product base on LibreOffice shortly, always on the mobile side. Of course there are different ways of handling that. The CloudOn is probably the best and the most tight integration that we can dream of. But then there are other companies that are just taking the engine and using the engine in a different way. I think that everything contributes to growing the ecosystem and growing the project and making the project more active. And of course what is happening in the meantime is that the foundation has grown and the foundation has grown thanks to donations and we will see the trend afterwards. But the foundation has grown now, now we have a structure. We have a structure and these are the people and I leave the microphone to Florian that he will talk about the people. And so that's to go on. So hello, also from my side thanks for being here. As Italo said a couple of words on how we have grown over the past years. And as Italo said thanks to the generous support, thanks to the donations, we have been able to gain structure to get people involved in TDF to make things possible that we deemed impossible quite a while ago. So we have had the opportunity to hire a contract of few employees and contractors. One is sitting here, Kov. That's Kov who's been working for TDF since the summer of 2013. And actually if you download a LibreOffice release the chances are rather high that it has gone through his hand because he's our release engineer. That is he's responsible for pushing the buttons, triggering the releases, checking for last blockers that might stop a release and distributing the files on the mirror network. That's his role and he's working for TDF so we have this very important role of the one deciding actually about the final release and making it possible directly inside TDF. Second one, sorry for the rather dark picture is Sophie. Are you in the room? Sophie, thank you. You can see her life in the color over there. The applause is totally justified. Sophie was coordinating the LibreOffice conference from the TDF site so a lot of things that are possible here that you see are also her merits. Sophie has been with TDF since December 2013 and she is a couple of work areas. One is administrative assistant that means dealing with all those requests like travel refunds when I will file your refund it goes through her hands. She's been with the community for quite a long time so she's very well connected and therefore is doing lots of communication, coordination inside TDF bringing people together, making projects happen that's actually Sophie's role and glad to have her, of course. Itabu, you can see right here. Itabu is also one of the TDF founders is the mastermind behind our marketing driving the marketing and right now is working on a certification program for TDF and has joined us I think in December 2013 on a paid basis. He came up with the developer certification first and now is working and actually doing finalizing bits on the Trainers and Macreaters certification so soon we will see the option of having people working on and with the LibreOffice certified overseen by TDF and driven by et al. Who does a lot of other very, very good things for TDF in his problem time so it's great to have him around. We have Alex Naturophees here. Alex has been with TDF also. Yes, of course, please, please. Alex has been with TDF for quite a while as well and these days is on a paid basis, contracted basis, our infrastructure administrator that means he's the one driving the infrastructure platform when you download LibreOffice when you go to the website. That's his work right now. He's in a rather large project dealing with migration as we call it, Infra2.0, migrating to scalability, high availability, deployment. You see as the community and as TDF has grown also the infrastructure requirements have and actually you deliver a talk I think tomorrow at 10 so if you're more interested in that don't miss out on his talk about all those fancy geeky technical leakers on that topic. Wave Robinson is here in the room as well. Wave hi to Robinson. He has been as a volunteer with TDF for quite a while and now has been contracted just last month. He's the QA engineer that means TDF is investing more into the quality of the software, organizing, testing, bacteria, bivisecting. One of his items is also to get actually more volunteers involved into this area of working so we fostered a volunteer community by that and I think it's really good to have roles like those directly inside TDF to take care of the stability and the quality of the software. And you have me. It's a duty to coordinate all of that to deal with administrative issues that comes with that and sometimes I even deliver a short speech during conferences as you can see and enjoy very much being here and being with TDF of course. So handing over to Italo. Okay. So the next one is about the advisory board. I think the advisory board has grown dramatically over the last two years and this is also significant because it shows that there are more and more companies that are put their trust on TDF. When we started the companies where Google, Free Software Foundation, Frodev, Germany, Frodev is the old openoffice.org German community that then switched to LibreOffice. There was SPI and I think Suzanne read that. All the others came afterwards. For those that do not know, MIMO is the French organization that oversees the migration to LibreOffice of the French government and CAST is we can say the Science Academy of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia that is overseeing a lot of the work on of course on translation to Arabic and also of languages that are written from right to left which is exactly the opposite as we are used to do. Then you have Cloudon, Itomy, Collaboral, Anido, Intel, AMD and Redar and Susie that are historic partners and Studio Storti who is an Italian company and all these I think in terms of capability of spending capability by TDF being driven by donations. So these are donations by individuals each brick is one day of donations. So this is since May 2013 to August 2014. As you can see of course we had a little bit of decrease but if you look at that on the long range it's rather stable so that means we are attracting around 5000 donations per month from individuals and this gives us the capability of investing but not only to invest but also to save some money for the future which is very important. So I think the board of directors the first generation, the second generation have decided not just to spend all the money but to invest some money and to save some money for the future so let's just assume that the flow of donations stops today no one hopes that but we still have I think two years in a bank of money to go and this means that you have two years to think about how to recreate the flow of donations and now what has happened during the last 12 months is just highlights because the problem is that too much happens for 20 minutes speech. So we have reached 200 members and we have reached 800 new developers and this I think has been an amazing achievement because before the fork everyone was convinced that no volunteer developers were going to work on the OpenOffice.org code. We have 40 certified developers and we hope to have more in the future of course and we hope to have people who are working in migration and trainings. We have launched the Document Liberation Project it's a let's call a sister project of LibreOffice that comes from the filters that have been developed by the project. These filters have not just been added to LibreOffice but has been made available to the entire ecosystem to increase the, to liberate the documents so to allow people using also other software to add filters to import proprietary documents that in several cases have been lost because the program that has generated those documents is not existing anymore. This is a little bit personal and I'm very proud to do that. In Italy we have the first native language association that is entirely inspired by TDF and I think it's been quite a long travel to found the association that is called LibreItalia but now we have it and I will have another slide on that. The first US act fest thanks to Robinson and Joel who are just back in the room I think is the first and I invite everyone that has good contacts in the states to relate with Joel and Robinson to create a network in the states. The states are a huge country so creating a community there is probably 10 times more difficult than creating a community in Europe in a European country but if we want to really succeed as a project as a global project we have to get a community in the states I think it's very important and we all have to help Joel and Robinson and all the others coming from the continent there is Mark Parry coming from Canada we all have to help them to create a community it's a hell of a job and so only with our help they can succeed and we have a number of successful product launches this is Document Liberation these are the filters that have been developed by the Document Liberation guys many of these filters are adopted by other software by other open source and even by some proprietary software I think these are the reviewers for certifications so there is a group of people during the marketing certification track there will be a number of species about certification who is interested in doing that is invited in room 105 starting from this afternoon this is Libri Italia and we have five people from Libri Italia here we have the president, Sonia, who is there the vice president who is Marina I think it's the only association where the president and the vice president are women in a technology environment the vice president because they are women the president and vice president because they are the most effective lady in promoting LibreOffice, the president and the most technical guy inside the association Fredo Parisi, who is our mascot and then we have Waldo Gervasi I'm just over six years so just bear with me, I'm losing my neurons Osvaldo is there we have launched less than one week ago and we have 110 members of us 10 minutes ago so it's really we have a schedule that is entirely based of course it has been a little bit tweaked to reflect the Italian law but it's entirely based on the TDF schedules and the mission is to promote LibreOffice and ODF product launches these are the last two product launches you know that we are trying to distribute press releases in the local language we should do it better so if you want to translate our press release in your local language please send an email to me or to Sophie to organize that we have journalists in our mailing list in more than 20 countries so we can probably address your country's journalist in the local language if you send us the translated press release we will take care about distributing that in the local language the fact that we have distributed press release in the local language has given us these kind of results so LibreOffice 4.2, 6,000 articles or links since February and LibreOffice 4.3 in one month we have already 4,000 articles or links and we have very important articles I've just listed two CNET which is a very large network actually I've met the CNET reviewers editor in chief of reviews and he installed LibreOffice he is supposed, let's say that he is supposed to install every software then to review every software he has installed LibreOffice the afternoon after our meeting so he was writing actually what I discovered that he was writing reviews on LibreOffice without having LibreOffice installed on his computer now he has installed and the global that is the largest daily in Brazil has featured an article on LibreOffice and we can improve these results I would like to have, let's say, LibreOffice on the front page of Franco Fuhrter's argument or something like that maybe the financial times we have the journalists in our mailing list let's try to do that we have increased the number of active users these are people that are pinging for updates based on this and based on the fact that we have Linux users that do not update they update through their repository we now estimate between I would say 110 million users worldwide of course it's a bulk figure it's based on our data but also on estimates this is the growth of developers this is amazing and I think what is amazing is that the small light green are the new developers that are attracted by the project on a monthly basis and I think after four years not having missed a single month is an incredible achievement these are the Commits during the last 24 months this is the trend line so they are growing of course there are months where June, July some people take vacation they should not but they do that and so Commits are decreasing so you are kindly invited if you are a developer not to take vacation or to administer your vacation in a better way inside the developers community these are the code committers per month this is the average of active on a yearly basis so it's between 280 and 340 of course it's going up and down but I think that having this number of active developers on a yearly basis by the way Microsoft stays in their annual report that their active number of developers on Microsoft Office is 420 so we are not so far from the number of active developers of Microsoft Office of course it's different because we have many volunteers but it's not anymore like in the past 50 against 420 and Michael this is yours that is the microphone hello so this is the grass hide or all manner of interesting things if you break this out by companies and groups so this is basically individuals who have committed code in a month and I would say at this point that code is not the only contribution as Robinson will tell you QA tree hunting bugs is absolutely fantastic we just don't have any good stats on that yet so Robinson over to you but code is an important contribution let's face it we run it and so each month we look at how you know this snapshot operates down for various affiliations and so you can see some interesting things here you see mostly blue right these are volunteers these are contributors that never can commit it to the code before the office has started and then the vast majority of people here and you can also see some other interesting things but this is multi-coreware who do open CL enablement stuff a massive spike of work just before our last release from loads of people like and they arrive did some good stuff and then disappeared again not the ideal obviously hopefully they will return but there is still some ongoing work so that's good what else can you see this green is Susan and that changed I guess mostly to a couple of Calabra at some point here there's some kind of transition here going on what else some of these other things at the bottom yeah I think I think that's probably about it from that let me switch to the next slide okay clicking the right button you can perfect so that's committers and our whole governance is set up to empower individuals and individual committers so the previous snapshot gives a good picture of what you'd expect to see in our membership so the people who control the organisation are extremely distributed vast majority of the volunteers this is a volume of commits so commit is something like a unit of thought you fix one covariate bug I'm looking for Quinoa he fixes a lot of covariate bugs this is a huge spike there but again you see that the individual volunteers and particularly when you add in original people that used to work on the open office back in the day these two blues are still a significant proportion of what's going on and again you can see the Susan to Calabra a spike and you can see Red Hat a different picture there in terms of volume but still we are reasonably diverse so development stuff what has happened so I can't do justice to a year of what we've done at all so I just thought I'd pull out a few things the first thing is that for you know ever since VCL was created it has been sub-optimal our tool case, the thing that draws our dialogues and Crayon and crew have nearly finished this it's within the spitting business all the dialogues there's some bits to go it's absolutely fantastic work and we've only started it in the last year and a half or so so maybe two years and we're nearly there just gives you some idea of the scale of the problems we're dealing with perhaps but some brilliant stuff on the other side here you can see unit tests so again the trend is very healthily going upwards the more of these the merrier the less progressions we get German comments, we're in Switzerland do you understand German? maybe so if you can speak or read or write German you don't need deep programming skills it helps to understand a little bit but we would really love help translating the last 10,000 lines of German comments and this is really helpful for internationalising the project my dear friend Miklos struggles with writer internals on occasion and this is a huge helpful looking German comment and Google translate is good as it is, doesn't quite do the technical justice but anyway again the trend there is very positive and going down we'd love to get it to zero this graph will go to zero pretty soon I'm optimistic, Coylon are you optimistic? Coylon is probably even now generating the bigger commenced bike for Red Hat and German comments is again something we can get to zero it's a job that we can finish we finished a number of those things the string clean up for example is pretty much complete, it's done and that's nice, it's another thing that's been there for 20 years, you know, or 15 years maybe and it's great to get it done severity is another perhaps it's hard to understand quite how good the number is I mean 7 potential static checking warnings for 100,000 lines okay it doesn't seem terribly low but it's phenomenally low, by the industry average it's like open source projects which are pretty good 60 plus is the average so we're massively better than RPS here again a huge amount of workers is Coylon and Marcus and Norbert some people have just burned through this but again hopefully another metric we can get down to zero okay Verity, perhaps let's see some really good clean up and pain down of technical debt which is always encouraging and they're just another slide on some random grand bag of things like to say what one of the problems with LeBroff is it's so big that our release notes don't say re-race the dialogues entirely they just don't say that because it takes two years so all we can say is we did another 200 this release or something like that right a lot of what we do is by definition detail interoperability fixing is a huge detail problem the specifications are vast the core data model is huge but just really encouraging ways that it's been improved so I particularly round-trip interop to OpenXML I invest very heavily in that to make sure that when you load your OpenXML document perhaps we can't render it all perhaps we're missing a weird glow effect or a strange char feature or something but when you've edited it and saved it back again we restore that information so it's not lost so you can edit the document and be confident the users will have their original improved document there and I think that's a really key feature very good for clouds and things like that and just huge swathes of detail there's always more formally to knock off to keep up with the competition performance something always happens there's just lots and lots of detail more than you can write in a slide Apple Keynating Four Filters I think that's cool if you want to move people away from Apple products and lots and lots of other little features I think we've talked about some of these before so that's my attempt to do justice to a year of development in a very lame way mostly by graphs I missed your feature, I apologize for that it was only a negative of 5 minutes to do it in time, what do you think? I think that's about it you can clap where you want on the side, if you want to watch out you can get it questions, do we have any questions? questions in other words statistics well the good news is we'll be split into three tracks shortly after this and there's all sorts of interesting interesting talks it's only come for the suffering in the morning thank you so very much thank you