Dear community members, TDF members, Advisory board members, team
members, membership committee and board!A very special year for everyone but also for the LibreOffice
community comes to an end. A lot of challenges in our daily work
with or for the community and the project have been faced, forced
from the worldwide COVID pandemia with a lot of consequences in
everybody's life and in the way to work together. And it was also
the year of our jubilee of 10 years with the LibreOffice project and
20 years of free and open office productivity tools.A lot have been done and reached in the community nevertheless we
faced this situation without meeting in person. One highlight
certainly was the openSuseLibreOffice conference totally
virtual, another I think the open and transparent discussion process
about the marketing plan and with all that a shift to more
participation of the community in decision making for the
foundation. I am far away of being able to mention all the good
activities, running tenders, virtual events, local community work,
code development for issues fixing and new features, team tasks,
quality assuring and documentation work streams, marketing and
spreading the word activities and last but not least securing a
stable donations stream, a lot of valuable contribution of ecosystem
partners ect.This was just and only possible with all of your personal individual
contributions to the project(s) of The Document Foundation. And in
this days at the end of the year it is time to say a truly thank you
for all your efforts and contributions in it. People around the
world - may it be local community members, may it be ecosystem or
advisory board members, may it be team members, may it be within or
without the TDF membership are working together for promotion and
development of an office software available for use by anyone!Without your help, without your contribution to the project we
couldn't have reached all this in such a special year! Thank YOU!
Thank you for all your motivation to support our common goals.Certainly there is also a challenging new year ahead of us, but I am
convinced with this big and healthy community we will also overcome
this still ongoing pandemia and take certainly additional steps to
go for the right project setting in the next decade of LibreOffice! I wish you and your beloved ones a few days of recreation at the end
of this year and a stable good health.Thanks again and hope to see you all with your contributions in the
new year again,yours Lothar Becker as chairman of the board--
Lothar K. Becker, Member of the Board of Directors
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
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