Updates from today's board meeting regarding development

Hello,

during today’s board meeting, Eliane Domingos, our Chairwoman, gave the following information in the public part, which I want to share with you today:

TDF’s Board of Directors, and TDF’s team (members of the staff) will have a meeting on April 20 and April 22 for the strategical planning regarding the next steps of the LibreOffice development. The agenda of the calls is to discuss the foundation’s goal in key areas, and will be around technical leadership, new features, technology, usability and the planning of LibreOffice Online.

In preparation, members of the team will have an initial coordination call already tomorrow afternoon, April 8.

With the team’s experise and the vision of the board, we will be ready to make the next steps in LibreOffice development.

While these initial calls will be private, to ensure a conversation with an overseeable amount of participants, we will keep you posted on the next steps, and then will - with TDF’s credo of transparency - also engage in a public discussion.

Today’s board call also officially welcomed Neil and Vissarion, our two new developers. Neil will work on Scripting support, while Vissarion will work on Base. They will ensure that TDF will grow knowledge, and share it with the wider community through documentation, mentoring and other activities.

LibreOffice and The Document Foundation are by the community, for the community, and we are looking forward to working with you!

Florian

I’d also like to place on the agenda of the strategic planning meeting the steps necessary to implement the vision of a P2P LibreOffice that I articulated back in 2013 in https://the.webm.ink/a-vision-for-libreoffice - it is complementary to any LOOL work.