 So my name is Florian, I'm the Executive Director of the Document Foundation and I'm based in beautiful Igoe area south of Munich, near the Austrian border. But we meet here in Brussels at the Hackfest, so as you can see I'm quite proud to be active in an international project and an international community. What users of course see in first place is you can download the software for free, there's no price attached, you can use it, that's what they see, but there's a lot more beyond that, behind that. Open source and free software is about the culture, how the software developed by people work together. So we have a free software license, that means the source code is available and you not only can work on it, but you actually encouraged to hack on it and work on it. And as you see, meeting here at the Hackfest, we try to share the knowledge to mentor people to actually get them into working on LibreOffice on the code and on a couple of other areas like infrastructure, like marketing, quality assurance, localization. And then we work worldwide, we are quite open minded, there is basically no barrier in languages or cultures, time zones and this is the open source spirit, the open source model that people work together on one project jointly across the world and see each other every once in a while in person, but yeah, there's much more to it than just the software enterprise, it's the full culture and the ideal is that free software open source stands for. So we were looking for a home, a legal entity for the project and checked a couple of options. If you look in the US for example, there are lots of foundations for free software, Mozilla, Wikipedia for the open knowledge and there's lots more. And after some investigation, we ended up with a German foundation, Stüftung, as an entity and the main reason is because what you put in the statutes is quite fixed. So you can do a couple of changes to the statutes, but the main premises, the main objective of TDF cannot be changed. So that gives security for everybody who uses it, for everybody who contributes and it was the main idea behind that to have a stable entity where you have guarantees where statutes can be enforced, but there are clear rules and openness and transparency and that's why in the end we went with the document foundation as a non-profit in Germany. So we have like many organizations, associations, companies have a board of directors. At the moment it's 10 seed holders, seven full seed holders and three deputies who jump in whenever a seed holder is not available and this board already reflects the diversity of the project. We have board members who earn the money with LibreOffice by being developers working for corporations active in their business. We also have pure hobbyists. We have members from all sorts of countries all over the world speaking various languages so that really reflects the diversity that we have. And then one strong element of the document foundation is that it can become a member or more formally put as we have in the statutes a member of the board of trustees. The idea behind that is when you contribute to LibreOffice or any of the foundations projects by whatever means except money. So by actively contributing, by carrying out some work, be it development, localization, marketing, infrastructure and the like and you've been doing that for three months and you have the intent to do that for at least the next six months then you can ask to be a member of the document foundation and a member can be elected into the board and it can elect the board. The idea is that those who contribute can steer the ship and if you now have only the board of directors and the board of trustees it would be easy for a board to simply determine who is a member so who can be elected and to avoid that we have a second actually a third body inside TDF which is the membership committee. The membership committee is there to evaluate applications and the barrier to become a member is actually rather low they're checking whether you made a contribution where you fulfill the requirements but the rules are not overly strict so basically everybody can when they contribute become a member and there is some system of checks and balances with the board of directors overseeing the election of the membership committee and the other way around. So the document foundation relies on donations that we receive from our donors from all around the world. Last year we had 80,000 individual donations and apart from the fact that there is funding available this is especially great to see that we have such strong support worldwide. 80,000 individual donations from all over the world we do not rely on a single sponsor but rather really built on a strong foundation literally with donations coming in from all over the world that is fantastic to see and the spending is basically distributed in three parts we have a set of recurring costs with a growing team that works on a paid basis for the document foundation recurring costs for infrastructure which makes a large chunk given we are a virtual project online working on the internet having lots of machines and servers connected and then we have buckets like a community bucket that's basically a pool that we built for funding and fostering community driven events like hackfest mentoring events we have the same for marketing related expenses like trade shows like producing collaterals and then we have so-called special projects those are mostly tenders that we run last year we had a set of tenders to improve the liberal office code to deliver new features to fund specific functionality and that's the breakdown of the budget so recurring costs special projects and those buckets so it's of course loads of administrative tasks like accounting banking budgeting process I'm glad to work with a with a growing and very good team that I can guide and coordinate projects set priorities work with them enable them to do projects and should I have some spare time my contributions are also in the area of marketing and infrastructure to the degree that's possible for me so for TDF as an entity we had of course by growing and setting up processes quite some costs in terms of actual spending and also time to have processes in place to establish a budgeting process and get all of that in place I would consider that being in a stable state now with comparable parameters each year so there is more time for individual projects in the office sector per se I think the next steps and challenges will be of course the mobile market and the online market because those come on top of the desktop version that we do have already in place so that will be one of the challenges and of course it's always a challenge to retain and to get contributors in the project to mentor them to encourage them to enable them there will be an ongoing challenge and tasks and the priority on our agenda actually