[da-dansk] By the community, for the community: TDF to base community-driven foundation in Berlin, Germany

Til orientering:
TDF er nu etableret som fon (stiftung) i Berlin.


/Leif

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Subject: 	[tdf-announce] By the community, for the community: TDF to 
base community-driven foundation in Berlin, Germany
Date:   Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:01:17 +0100
From:   Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
Reply-To:       info@documentfoundation.org
Organization:   The Document Foundation
To:     announce@documentfoundation.org



By the community, for the community: TDF to base community-driven
foundation in Berlin, Germany

Openness, meritocracy and transparency anchored in cornerstones of an
enduring entity
Successful vendor-neutral development model to provide the best free
office suite

Berlin, February 1st, 2012 - The Document Foundation (TDF) today
announces that it will base its community-driven entity in Berlin, in
the legal form of a German Stiftung. This kind of structure is
recognized worldwide as a legally stable, safe and long term entity,
providing the ideal cornerstone for the long term growth of the
community and its software.

"For the first time in 12 years, the development of the free office
suite finally takes place within an entity that not only perfectly fits
the values and ideals of the worldwide community, but also has this very
same community driving it. The future home of the best free office suite
is built and shaped by everyone who decides to participate and join. And
the best is: Everyone can contribute and is invited to do so, to further
strenghten the free office ecosystem", says Florian Effenberger,
Chairman of the Board at TDF.

Charles-H. Schulz, one of the founders and a member of the Board of
Directors, adds: "Berlin is the icon of reunification and unity, and as
such is the ideal home of our global community, aggregated around the
objective of creating the best free office suite ever. We expect to be
legally established during the next weeks, as soon as the last details
of the formal process have been finished."

"After many months of work in close cooperation with the authorities, we
were able to keep the spirit of the community bylaws, and incorporate
them into legally binding statutes, that ensure the promises that TDF
has made in its manifesto", says Michael (Mike) Schinagl, a Berlin-based
lawyer and contributor to various free software projects, who has been
driving the legal aspects of the foundation set-up from the very beginning.

In addition, TDF currently publically discusses ways for local entities
to join and participate, and operative entities are currently being
created to carry on special projects.

Founder of the Stiftung will be the German nonprofit association Freies
Office Deutschland e.V., formerly OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V., that
so far acted as interim legal entity. "We congratulate the community for
having achieved this key step, and are proud of having played a key role
in setting up The Document Foundation. Our association is looking
forward to working closely with the new entity and acting as a gateway
between TDF and private as well as enterprise users", says Thomas
Krumbein, Chairman of the Board at Freies Office Deutschland e.V.

The LibreOffice project welcomes donations at
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/donate/

The website of TDF can be found at http://www.documentfoundation.org
The best free office suite, LibreOffice, has its website at
http://www.libreoffice.org
Freies Office Deutschland e.V. host their German homepage at
http://www.frodev.org

Note to editors: A "Stiftung" is a German Foundation established with an
endowment and supervised by state authorities. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28non-profit%29#Germany for
more details.

Short link to blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-e5


About The Document Foundation

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 February 1, 2012,
TDF has 146 members and over a thousand volunteers and contributors
worldwide.


Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880 - Mobile: +49 151 14424108
E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org - Skype: floeff

Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org

Charles-H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
SIP Phone: +39 02 320621813 - Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org - Skype: italovignoli
GTalk: italo.vignoli@gmail.com

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