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[Sheflug] LibreOffice is Booming
Might be of some interest to people out there..
Italo Vignoli Wrote:
Over 2 million downloads in September, over 540 developers,
a community of over 3,000 volunteers from the five continents,
over 100 languages (representing 95% of the world population)
LibreOffice Conference, Berlin, October 17, 2012 - The Document
Foundation announces that the German city of Munich is migrating to
LibreOffice, following a growing trend of migrations and adoptions
worldwide. "After a careful risk-assessment, Munich city council has
decided to migrate to LibreOffice. In favour of that decision, among
others, was the greater flexibility of the project regarding
consumption of open source licenses. In addition, Munich wants to rely
on a large and vibrant community for any Open Source product it
employs," says Kirsten Böge, head of public relations.
Just before the city of Munich, a similar announcement was made by the
French Prime Minister, who mentioned LibreOffice as a pillar in the
overall migration of free software of all government bodies. MimO, the
technology group taking care of the migration project, has already
certified LibreOffice as the free office suite of choice.
Several other large migrations to LibreOffice have happened or are
happening in Denmark (Hospitals of Copenhagen), Italy (Regione Umbria,
Provincia di Milano, City Councils of Provincia di Bolzano, and one of
the largest IT company in the banking sector), Spain (City of Las
Palmas), Ireland (City of Limerick), Greece (Municipality of Pilea
Hortiatis) and the US (City of Largo in Florida).
Chicago Public Library deploys LibreOffice on several PCs, as a
service for the people who need to create or edit documents, and
provides trainings to learn the free office suite.
LibreOffice is developed by a large and diverse hacker community,
which has grown from 20 to 550 members in two years. This group is
backed by an even larger number of active volunteers taking care of
localizations, quality assurance, community development and marketing
at global and local levels. Overall, the number of these people is
over 3,000, if we take as a measure those who have contributed to the
project wiki.
LibreOffice has been downloaded over 20 million times - and over 2
million in September, following the announcement of version 3.6.2 -
from The Document Foundation mirror system (over 80% Windows + 10%
MacOS), with a large number of additional downloads from software and
magazine websites. In addition, LibreOffice is featured on a large
number of covermount CDs, which account for other installs. TDF
estimates a grand total of 60 million users, half of them being
desktop Linux users who get LibreOffice from their distribution
repository.
"Looking at these figures, one can hardly believe that it all happened
in just two years," comments Italo Vignoli, Director of The Document
Foundation in charge of marketing communications. "During these months
I have traveled the world to speak at free software conferences about
the project, and I have met hundreds of people who recognize in
LibreOffice the legitimate heir of OpenOffice. Today, the numbers we
are releasing show that also governments and enterprises share this
perception, and support the idea that only a focused independent free
software foundation could provide a path forward for the OpenOffice
code base."
LibreOffice 3.6.2 is available for immediate download from the
following
link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice
are available from the following link:
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center. When downloading
the software, you might consider about donating some money to The
Document Foundation for the development of LibreOffice and the growth
of the community, by accessing our donation page at
http://donate.libreoffice.org.
About The Document Foundation (TDF)
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 September
30, 2012, TDF has over 150 members and over 3.000 volunteers and
contributors worldwide.
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Italo Vignoli - Director
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email italo.vignoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Document Foundation
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