On Thursday late afternoon we had a great Marketing and Strategy Workshop. The session was chaired by myself and Italo Vignoli, and Florian Effenberger’s presentation on the LibreOffice’s “Anthill” had been merged to the workshop. This allowed us to discuss the marketing strategy and community building for almost two hours. …
Two years ago, the OpenOffice.org community decided to break away from the domination of one vendor and instead create an independent foundation that would host the free and open source office suite “for the next decade”. I could not help but re-read a few of my posts then, you can …
Next Saturday, the 15th of September, we will all celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2012. As usual, it will be a worldwide event with lots of big and small conferences, parties and presentations happening all around the globe and driven by teams of volunteers. Such a day highlights the momentum …
Tomorrow, I’ll be flying with Melissa to our honeymoon somewhere in the Mediterranean. It will be our first and well deserved vacations …
Recently the Mozilla Foundation announced a new orientation for their email client, Thunderbird. It caused quite a bit of discussion, and we, …