 There we are. Now I see them as well. Great. Perfect. Hello everyone and welcome to our joint conference. I'm happy to see so many of you here. And it's really good that with the situation this year we were able still to bring everybody together. And what I would like to tell you in the next about half an hour is an overview of the document foundation itself. How it's set up, how it's working, what the ideas behind it are, what the bodies are, a bit of insight into our daily work. And for questions, feel free to use the chat or refer to the bit of time also afterwards. Then let's start. See if this is working here. Is it not? So fantastic. There we are. Okay. So just a couple of words for myself. I'm in the, that whole field for like, I think 16 years in the meantime, I always say I was not great when I started. So I started with back then open office org around the end of my school term, then was active in the project. I was from the very beginning with the document foundation. I was one of the founding members was in the first board. And now there's some executive director. And should I have a bit of a spare time I'm also active in infrastructure and marketing but really just a little bit we have great people doing the job here. So I've been around for quite a while, sort of product growing and changing and would like to give you some overview on what the last years have brought us. On the starting slide you saw the big liberal office law and on the bottom you saw the document foundation and I'd like to explain a bit the meaning of these terms, they sound rather clear but maybe there is some interesting detail that you didn't know. So first of all, liberal office has some sort of double meaning. Of course, and I don't have to explain it in this round. It's a software that you can use it's the leading free office productivity suite that is installed by millions of users worldwide. The concrete numbers is really challenging to get as we don't sell a license but I know that Mike and it hello are doing a wonderful job to find the numbers out. I think with millions of users worldwide that is definitely not inaccurate. So it's widely used it's one of the most prominent open source projects in the meantime, but the office also describes the community behind that that that's all of you that's everybody I think to the project in the rise area speed development beat localization beat QA beat infrastructure beat running the conference. And that committee consists both of volunteers and ecosystem members. So we have people bringing in their skills with rise background some of them do it on a professional level as their or as a profession as their day job. They do it in their spare time. And those contributors as we also really greatly see here the conference they come from around the globe. I think today in parallel we have a Spanish summit with people from from all Spanish speaking countries we have a strong Asian community so it's really all around the globe. Then on the bottom of labor office on the title screen and the logo. It literally is the foundation is TDAF the document foundation that is first and foremost a legal entity. It is a so called Stiftung that basically means a foundation. It's based in Berlin in Germany. And what I'm quoting here is what you see in the statutes. It's the objective it's the mission of TDA what what is TDAF all about. And it says the objective of the foundation is the promotion development of office software available for you spend one. That means several things first of all, promotion is in a sense that we can foster projects in that area we can hand over resources and funding to. Contribute to LibreOffice and we can also directly improve the software. Then what is covered is not LibreOffice itself. LibreOffice is not mentioned in the statutes. We covered a field of office software that of course entails the office productivity software that could entail a make client that could entail a graphic software. But for example a software to create music sheets to put the notes of a music on a paper that likely would not be covered. So the frame is rather open but on the specific field of office software and the use by anyone is also important for example looking at the number of localizations that we have. It's our aim to slim down the digital gap to remove the digital gap by providing as many localizations as possible so as many people as possible in the LibreOffice. And TDF is not called the LibreOffice Foundation that is on purpose, because first of all historically in the beginning it was just not clear what we said LibreOffice would it be open office or would it be a different name. So we left it open. And second, as you see above, the objective of the foundation is a bit wide ranging. That means we could also do other things. So it's not the LibreOffice Foundation. For example with the document liberation project these days we also do have another project hosted that is not so much end user facing, but there are other projects beyond LibreOffice. I think we also host the ODF all the data and other bits and pieces. So the name was on purpose. What's the philosophy behind that. So, if you look at the history at the ideas at the statutes, the idea behind TDF is to support the development to foster both the software and the community. To me it doesn't exist without the other. We are not just about the software, we are not just about the community, they are all together. And how do we do that? We do it for example with events like these bringing people together, sharing the knowledge, enabling them to exchange each other to talk about things. We try to share knowledge via blog postings, via events, via documentation, via mentoring people. It's very important to be seen at these days where our infra team has done a really fantastic job to keep the conference alive and make it possible that many things also in years where we don't have travel restrictions have been in a virtual space. So we need lots of infrastructure. So TDF is also providing a lot of infrastructure for the community to work on. The idea behind TDF was that we had already been working together in various fields, and we have some shared values, some shared ideals, but that was never formalized. With all the history that we've seen and rules that were not relevant anymore and so on, we were working on statutes that vouch for those values and ideals that we especially were looking for openness for transparency, and many other bits and pieces. Especially these days you've seen we have discussions about the ecosystem so to clarify from the beginning we said that TDF should be independent from one single sponsor that of course does not mean that we're completely disconnected rather than opposite. It means that there should be no direct dependency on one single and only sponsor. Also here this is something we've seen before and that main sponsor then decided things that were not working for us. So one of TDF's goals is to avoid being dependent on one single sponsor. And that happens, thanks to the support of many. A set ecosystem is an important part. And we want to have that for contributors for commercial stakeholders, some ideas and there is much more in discussion at the moment. And we also have a collaboration program that is relevant also for tenders we see more and more tenders with certified liberal office developers are required. We do join development efforts there are tenders going on. So also here TDF invests quite some resources into making that happen. Also from the beginning, very important was to lower the entry barriers to make it much easier to contribute to various fields. You see HACS, you see HACFS that cover obviously the area of development. We do mentoring workshops, we have more meetings, we have more documentation, we have fantastic videos that are shared. So this is all part of the mission to lower the entry barriers. And of course, TDF isn't isolated, it works with other entities with standards bodies with other free and open source organizations we try to change thoughts to work on common projects. When it isolated we are part of the open source ecosystem and try to reach out to other peers to work together with them. So talking about communities and I think everybody has their very own definition of that, but this is one that I like quite a lot. So what is, what is a community. To me it means we enjoy working together on something of course not every day is perfect and wonderful and pure joy, but in the end, you like always in life you need to like what you do. If you're not happy with what you do, then it's like you're not going to work out. So this is an important bit. An integral part of a community to me is working with shared interests. We have common goals, we have common ideals that we share. And of course, especially in a project like ours, especially in the holidays, it was very important to have some interest and excitement to be open for a bit of an adventure was all new. The developments taking place things changing. Of course, this is a key part also today. Of course we make mistakes we make them regularly and that's good nobody is perfect we need to make mistakes we need to learn from these. And then we need to share the knowledge to avoid anybody else making them again. That's a normal process that happens to the F as well. And it's a big part of community work also finding things out, not every little mistake is already a giant failure and as such, you can only improve. And it's important both for us who are already in the project as well as for people would like to get in we need to find out what their best is what what is their skill. My favorite sample is we had a doctor many years ago, and he was contributing in the field of design he was a designer so that was not related at all to his to his main day job. But he was working as a designer and supporting us in that area while in this day job, he was working in a medical area. So find out where people can contribute what they're good at, where are their skills and try to involve them as much as possible. Then we can only motivate others if we are motivated. And this is a key part of to motivate others motivate others and get them in coordination is key as well especially these days we see we're all disconnected we're all not in one room we need to coordinate it's sometimes a lot but in the end it works out quite well. And important what comes out of that joint efforts is something that everybody benefits from. It's not just us taking what we did, but we share everybody, everybody benefits from that. And of course, like, like in any human interaction tensions, they are normal they happen, but usually they're quite well so that is maybe an important message also to share. Let's talk a bit about the foundation itself what is TDF what is the foundation. We went for a foundation because we, especially in light of the history that we had seen we wanted to have something that is enduring that is stable provides stability we came from times that were really complicated and very unclear. We wanted something that is stable. One for us was that the main objective of TDF cannot be changed so that the part that you read before the, the office software. That is important for us we know where we're contributing to what we're contributing to and other entities you could change that in theory for several entities you could say, Oh, right. I now move from open standards and free software to proprietary software and close standards would be possible and we wanted something that is a bit more guaranteed. In fact, we wanted to provide safety for the committee for the end users and the ecosystems. So all participants in the project. TDF itself acts as some sort of trustee, for example for the trade marks and for the domains. We do handle nations we manage budgets, but PDF is not a part of the commercial ecosystem itself. That means you cannot buy anything. You cannot get a license you cannot get consultancy we don't do migrations for you. That's what we have to commercial ecosystem for so TDF acts as some sort of gateway, but it's not directly a participant of the commercial ecosystem. With all that set up, we wanted to guarantee rights for all the participants so from the creators to the consumers we wanted to guarantee rights to all of them. So this TDF setup, TF like any other entity has a board of directors the legal representative and that board of directors already is a pretty good representation of the community because we have people from various countries with rise backgrounds. We have people working in that field professionally we have people doing it as a pure hobby, people in the IT sector people doing something completely different so it's a fairly good representation. It doesn't prove, but the representation per se is not so bad. And in the board of directors, the board can be elected for a term of two years and can be reelected and it's nine people in total. The active and passive electoral right is with the so called board of trustees the members of TDF that is currently 221 individuals who are distributed around the world and work on the foundation scores. And behind that is when you have been active in the community for like three months and you plan six months, it's not a legal contract you enter but it's like you aim to contribute at least six more months then you are a member for one year, and you can qualify, you can renew a membership after it's expired. And that is overseen by the membership committee consisting of nine people with a similar setup also a term of two years. And also for that one, the passive and active electoral right is with the board of trustees. The idea behind that is that anyone who contributes for whatever reason if it's a pure volunteer or if you are paid, it doesn't matter. You can get into the steering of TDF you can help shape TDF. And we ensure that only people who actively contribute again for whatever reason are in the controlling position. The membership is always individually. That means, even if you leave the company for whom you've been working on your office you will keep that if you contribute. And we have another part of TDF that is not a formal body that is the so called advisory board. The membership there is based for its intended for organizations and companies. It may be important to mention in the board of trustees donations to not qualify you cannot buy yourself. So, any other work that you do can help but not money, and just a quick overview and I'm not reading that out in detail. Just a very brief overview of the options and it's not a conclusive list on how you can get engaged in TDF and what could qualify for membership that is infrastructure marketing localization quality assurance development templates and extensions and so on and so on so really wide range there is basically no limit. But again, donations do not qualify so you cannot buy yourself in you must personally do something to bring the objective of the foundation forward. So how did TDF happen how did that take place that is 10 years ago so we have something to celebrate as you all know the labor office project was founded in the September of 2010 and TDF itself is a bit younger it was set up in February 2012. The reason is that we took quite some time to work on the bylaws the statutes the ideas we started collecting how a government should look like. Then when it became clear where TDF would be set up we were working for for many many months to carve out statutes to carefully work on that to. We had various iterations amongst the founders group how it should look like we were in the process of approval because foundations have to be approved. And that took many many months to make it finally happen so we spent quite some some care into all the regulations, and we were evaluating a couple of countries. Okay, I remember France, Italy, Germany, and in the end, we had a couple of reasons why we went for Germany, first of all that mentioned stability and guarantees was one of the central aspects also coming from the history that we had seen. And plus, it means people to do the job so we had quite a few people looking in various options like I think it was looking for the Italian option that's what I remember. And then some people were looking into the German option. I think with Sophie we're working on an option in France. And so we were looking for countries where we had people outside. And after a careful consideration and going through various options in the end settled them for Germany. We had just one problem, because we knew, okay, we want to go to Germany we had an idea how the study should look like we had an idea of the governance but we needed funding and didn't have it. So, we had some sponsors supporting us we had another association helping us, but in the end we needed money, and we needed trademarks. And we needed names and all that. So, apart from all the volunteer time that were spent into that and quite some great development efforts taking place there was things we just had to buy. We didn't have the money. So what we did is what you these days would likely call crowdfunding, we started a public fundraiser, and the idea was, let's see for a month if you can get the money if not we need to reevaluate the plan. And it was 50,000 year capital, and that took us exactly eight days to get from donors, and it was really small donations from around the globe, and that is reflected by today. Because the average donation I think is around 13 or 14 euro. So it's many many small people in terms of the financial input, not about the volunteer time not about the development contributions but in terms of donations, many many other donations that come in. And that's what we've seen in the beginning. And after the month that we had foreseen, we ended up at 15,000 year capital and another 40,000 euro on top, which put us in a pretty comfortable situation to start running the infrastructure setting up required some pieces that was really an incredible experience to see so strong support because apart from the money that we have. It's an expression of support that was really great to see so many also individual people supporting the idea that we cannot. Some special things that TTF that up to today I think are really important and that I'm really happy we have that we put into the statutes. It's first of all a one third rule to prevent conflict of interest, and that means in any given body of TTF. Only one third of the members can be with the same affiliation. That means you cannot have a board with the same company, or with the same organization, just to provide the conflict of interest. We strongly accept before vouch for openness and transparency. That means per default, all of our board meetings are public can find a link here per default or decisions of the bodies are public can find a link here, even our accounting is public of course anonymized so you don't see who donated which somebody see where the money comes from, how are they spend we take the official ledgers translate them. It's really in English and it's public. And also the words making this this per default public, and whoever had a look at the board discuss this, the last weeks you see there's quite some messages going on. Of course there's a requirement for transparency, you need to talk things to also sometimes in private that is reflected in the statutes, because there is the option, as long as there is a confidentiality requirement. It can be kept confidential. Classics are you have a marketing campaign plan, you have a legal topic pending you have discussions about staff members. That is something that at least in first place you like it on to one public. You will do in private and at least those bits and pieces that then don't have a confidentiality requirement anymore, have to be made public and transparent as per the statutes. One thing where we turned our legal obligation into a benefit actually is the end report because one of the requirements for foundations and that I think is not so much different from many corporate setups where you also have strong reporting duties is that we need to provide an end report about all the activities that we have done. And that is jointly written with the community. We have to file it in German, but the way we work on it is we grafted an image. The board approves it in English and then in parallel we translate it into German and in parallel we have this nice, you see the nice something in here. So here's the layout and design version of that that is available for download that we hand out also on printed paper. And we do that since 2016 or so in that form. So here you have two links but on the document foundation website, you find some links to the ledgers you find some links to the previous annual reports. So it's quite a, quite a good thing to make transparent what is happening to show what people are doing to outline how TDF is fulfilling its mission and I think it's a very important, very, very good thing to have. And one of the pictures I want to show you is, I really like it. It's from Brno in 2016. It's rise community members waving their hands we are gathering at an in person conference in Brno in September, meeting, talking things through and this is not the full audience there, not the full list of attendees, but it shows people working together having fun jointly working on a common goal. And the message is we are a worldwide community we're a, we're a fun community. You should really consider working here, you should really consider contributing here. It's fun. And especially these days when we, when we saw that an in person meeting is not possible. I'm really happy to, to discover how we managed to still to still meet and do something together. And that is, that is really good. And just before closing it then I'm happy to answer a couple of questions, see a couple of people raising their hand. I just want to add some some personal words now that we are really in the 10th anniversary of Libra office. And you see discussion on TDF and so on. So, I think that after working together for 10 years. You can clearly see that inside discussion. But on one hand, it does not come entirely unexpected that if you work together such a long time. People have heavily invested time or money for both and in any case they invested much passion into what they do. And actually during the year that is as challenging as this one is for all of us in so many aspects that we be spot after that long time many things that we need to work on together. And especially this conference has shown me one thing very clearly and that is indeed that despite all the social distancing that at the moment be a force to keep. We see and feel this community spirit and I'm really, I have the feeling of being with all of you despite all the technical issues that we've seen and despite all the bits and pieces that were happening. And we see people from all around the globe meeting here during the virtual conference sharing what they do show their projects present the achievements. I think, as weird as it sounds in some comporting way we somehow or feel more closer maybe in these days than we did during previous conferences when we're taking things for granted so just as a closing statement after 10 years of LibreOffice and nearly nine years of TDF. I'm looking forward to make TDF a success for all of you. Also during the next decade, this is something we only can achieve together. And we can only do that in the spirit that it was set up and this is by the community and this is for the community, including everybody who works here on a common goal. It doesn't matter where they live what the language is what their time is on what their profession is if they are volunteers if the ecosystem members. I think we all need to work together on one joint and common goal. And we had our first 10 years and I'm very much looking forward to the next 10 years. Florian, one thing I would mention as well is I think most people in the in the room here know but working foundation itself is actually quite small there were only 11 of us working for it. And I noticed this recently when we posted about the TDF team on Reddit and other places a lot of people were surprised they thought TDF was like 100 people a big software house. So I think that that's something else that's often worth mentioning as well and that's because we're at the core where we're not a software house ourselves and we're a small close knit team. Indeed in the TDF itself has only a few people employed it's a team of 11 people in total. That's the core team hosted at TDF. But we have many, many more volunteers we have many more contributions from others but indeed TDF is not not a big company a set in the beginning we are not selling something we are not providing services ourselves we are really a small team working on the core aspects and one of the main tasks is really to enable the community to do things that is, I'd say the main task to deal with some of course administrative and maybe more boring things, but especially enabling the community providing platforms offering this this meeting venue that we see here. And this is the key thing it's not on us to fix bucks to develop the code that that's not the TDF core team doing we really try to provide a framework and they made the people to do something. This is what at least I see is our mission. Also you mentioned a few people putting their hands up but that was, that was because when, when you posted the picture at the end of your talk Florian of the Bruno event. I wrote in the chat put your hands up if you can see yourself in the picture. So you didn't mean they wanted to jump in and talk but just show that they were there. And it reminds me just one last story if people have two more minutes reminds me of many, many years ago. I think it was in all the eight or 2009 where we had John McCree still with us who was all of you know, passed away nearly five years ago. And at the closing ceremony he wanted to highlight how diverse and wide range in the community is. And he asked everybody to sit and then he was calling. So let's please all the developers stand up and then let's please all the market here stand up all the localize as we went through all the bits and pieces was a couple of groups he was mentioning and in the end. There was nobody sitting on their chair anymore because everybody was part of at least one group and I still remember that pretty well. That was a nice experience for the program session. Thanks. If, if there are any more questions or discussion points. We can talk about them in the chat otherwise I think we have a half hour break now. Let me check the show. Yeah, so 12 UTC to continue. Exactly. 12 UTC. We have there are talks about online and mobile from the Libre off the side and micro OS on the open suicide as well. And of course, the, the con underscore chat room is always available for the coffee to catch up with some people as well chat about other topics. So, yeah, thanks for having. Thanks a lot. Thanks for moderating. See you everybody.