Florian Effenberger is executive director at The Document Foundation, the legal entity behind LibreOffice.[1]

Florian Effenberger
Effenberger's picture from his personal blog
NationalityGerman
OccupationExecutive Director at The Document Foundation
Call signfloeff
Websiteeffenberger.org

OpenOffice, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation

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He started his work on OpenOffice.org and eventually became Co-Lead of the Marketing Project in July 2007.[2] In January 2010, Effenberger was elected Lead,[3] a role he held until he stepped down in October 2010, in favor of his engagement with the group behind the LibreOffice fork.[4]

Florian Effenberger is one of the founders of The Document Foundation,[5] and one of its spokespersons.[6] He became chairman of the board in October 2011,[7] a role he held until February 2014.

As the founder of The Document Foundation, the association Freies Office Deutschland e.V.,[8] he holds a seat at the supervisory board and previously served in the board of directors.[9] In December 2012 The Document Foundation announced that Effenberger is now hired.[10] In March 2014, he was promoted executive director.[11]

He is one of the creators of the Munich open source meetups[12] and invented the idea of open source cooking.[13]

Further reading

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  • "Interview on marketing free and open source software". Age of Peers. YouTube. 28 March 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  • "Fellowship interview with Florian Effenberger". FSFE. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  • "Interview with Florian Effenberger at FOSDEM". YouTube. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  • "Interview with Florian Effenberger, TDF Executive Director". The Document Foundation. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Florian Effenberger: LibreOffice Adoption Is Growing Globally". TFiR. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Ten Thoughts on Community Leadership (SFScon 2020)". YouTube. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "The Document Foundation - Transparent & meritocratic future of free office software". YouTube. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Ten Thoughts on Community Leadership (FOSS Backstage 2020)". YouTube. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "LibreOffice interview: Florian Effenberger, Executive Director at TDF". YouTube. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "On sessions, statutes and software (openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020)". YouTube. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

References

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  1. ^ "Selbstorganisation ist entscheidend" (in German). Die Stiftung. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  2. ^ McCreesh, John. "New Marketing Project co-Lead". discuss@openoffice.org. The Mail Archive. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. ^ McCreesh, John. "Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead". discuss@openoffice.org. The Mail Archive. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  4. ^ "OpenOffice.org Council members resign". The H Open. Heinz Heise. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  5. ^ "The Document Foundation Founders". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  6. ^ "The Document Foundation Contact Us". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Document Foundation Board 2011: Final Results". LWN.net. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  8. ^ "The Document Foundation finally incorporated". The H Open. Heinz Heise. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  9. ^ Goebel, Hartmut; Kleinert, Jan; Magnus, Nils. "Den Start in einen freien Beruf organisieren" (in German). Linux-Magazin. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  10. ^ Vignoli, Italo (26 December 2012). "TDF in 2012: a summary". Blog. The Document Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  11. ^ Vignoli, Italo (19 February 2014). "The New Board of Directors of the Document Foundation". Blog. The Document Foundation. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  12. ^ "Archiv". Open-Source-Treffen. Open-Source-Treffen e.V. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Von Spaghetti-Code, Forks und Slices". LinuxUser. Computec Media GmbH. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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