Franklin Weng6h ago

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/07/our-sense-of-meritocracy/

#libreoffice #TDF

Our sense of meritocracy - TDF Community Blog

Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute to it is, in some projects, a source of real and damaging conflict. Let us analyse the meaning of the word, because its potential ambiguity can significantly influence the debate and the various viewpoints. The theory of legitimacy based on the commit graph One version of meritocracy argues that governance authority should follow contribution, and that contribution is best measured through code. According to this view, the people who have contributed most to the code have the right to decide the project’s future, because they know the source code and have a personal stake in the most literal sense of the term. This is not an unreasonable position for a project in its early stages. Although it is also necessary to consider infrastructure, raise funds, and manage relations with the media and institutions, when the main challenge is technical in nature, when the community is small, and when the stakes are low, it makes sense that those doing most of the work should also make most of the

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Eliane Domingos7h ago

Mérito não é apenas sobre código, é sobre pessoas! 🤝

Você já se perguntou como as decisões são tomadas em grandes projetos de software livre? A Document Foundation abriu o jogo sobre o seu entendimento de meritocracia.

O post explora como o esforço individual se transforma em impacto coletivo e como a fundação valoriza cada contribuição para manter a independência do LibreOffice.

🔗 Leia em nosso blog: https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/04/07/nosso-entendimento-da-meritocracia/

#TheDocumentFoundation #LibreOffice #TDF #FOSS #SoftwareLivre

LibreOffice Brasil7h ago

Mérito não é apenas sobre código, é sobre pessoas! 🤝

Você já se perguntou como as decisões são tomadas em grandes projetos de software livre? A Document Foundation abriu o jogo sobre o seu entendimento de meritocracia.

O post explora como o esforço individual se transforma em impacto coletivo e como a fundação valoriza cada contribuição para manter a independência do LibreOffice.

🔗 Leia em nosso blog: https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/04/07/nosso-entendimento-da-meritocracia/

#TheDocumentFoundation #LibreOffice #TDF #FOSS #SoftwareLivre

Laborjournal9h ago

Wir hoffen, ihr hattet schöne Ostertage!
Vielleicht möchtet ihr mit etwas schöner Biologie in die Restwoche starten?
Wir empfehlen nämlich zu prüfen, ob Katzen vielleicht doch veganer sind… oder nachzulesen, warum die Stickstoff-Isotopenanalyse bei den Vierbeinern auf ihre Probleme stößt 😉
Lest mehr im Artikel von Ralf Neumann: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/bellbio/bellbio/schoen_26_03.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSci #Oekosystemforschung #SchoeneBiologie #StickstoffIsotopenanalyse #TDF #Katzen #Freiburg #Wien

Vanni Di Ponzano ⁂🚴 ❤️ ☕ 🍎1d ago

out of this world!

Tadej Pogačar

Milano-San Remo -- La Classicissima,

Tour of Flanders

What a joy to watch this cyclist ride and win the classics and the grand tours. He may even surpass the Cannibal !

#cycling #tdf #giroditalia #classics #ronde

Show threadHessenhelden1d ago

@Das_blaue_Pony 1/2 Zumindest ist dieser Streit Wasser auf den Mühle für Kritiker von Open Source. Und Streit zwischen Parteien ist auch nichts Neues. Was ich aber kritisiere ist die einseitige Berichterstattung zugunsten #Collabora und leider kam als Antwort von #TDF aus meiner Sicht nur Oberflächliches und hat auch nicht zur Beruhigung beigetragen. Z.B. stellt sich mir die Frage wer #Libreoffice weiterentwickelt wenn der Großteil der Entwickler von #Collabora kommt.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

Let's put an end to the speculation - TDF Community Blog

Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but we’ll try to keep it brief. The launch of the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation was handled with great enthusiasm by the founding group. They were driven by a noble goal, but also by a bit of healthy recklessness. After all, it was impossible to imagine what would happen after September 28, 2010, the date of the announcement. At the time, nobody could imagine that the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then would create a project to kill LibreOffice. Also, if the project were to be successful, it would require resources greater than those available, and above all, a deep management experience. Fortunately, the project grew quite rapidly. However, the founders’ different backgrounds and opinions were at the same time the reason for some bold decisions – many of which right – as well as a few mistakes, which are the root cause of some of the current

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jbz1d ago

Another chapter in the "The Office Wars"

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

#libreoffice #collabora #opensource #tdf

Let's put an end to the speculation - TDF Community Blog

Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but we’ll try to keep it brief. The launch of the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation was handled with great enthusiasm by the founding group. They were driven by a noble goal, but also by a bit of healthy recklessness. After all, it was impossible to imagine what would happen after September 28, 2010, the date of the announcement. At the time, nobody could imagine that the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then would create a project to kill LibreOffice. Also, if the project were to be successful, it would require resources greater than those available, and above all, a deep management experience. Fortunately, the project grew quite rapidly. However, the founders’ different backgrounds and opinions were at the same time the reason for some bold decisions – many of which right – as well as a few mistakes, which are the root cause of some of the current

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LibreOffice Brasil2d ago

O futuro nos pertence! 🚀

O que sustenta o LibreOffice é a força dos nossos voluntários e doadores. Convido você a ler nossa nova postagem no blog oficial, onde colocamos um ponto final nas especulações recentes e reafirmamos nossa missão.

Seguimos juntos, com serenidade e foco no que realmente importa: entregar tecnologia livre para todos.

🔗 Link: https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/04/05/ponto-final-nas-especulacoes/

#LibreOffice #Comunidade #SoftwareLivre #TDF

Eliane Domingos2d ago

O futuro nos pertence! 🚀

O que sustenta o LibreOffice é a força dos nossos voluntários e doadores. Convido você a ler nossa nova postagem no blog oficial, onde colocamos um ponto final nas especulações recentes e reafirmamos nossa missão.

Seguimos juntos, com serenidade e foco no que realmente importa: entregar tecnologia livre para todos.

🔗 Link: https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/04/05/ponto-final-nas-especulacoes/

#LibreOffice #Comunidade #SoftwareLivre #TDF #OpenSource

Hessenhelden2d ago

Kein gutes Zeichen #Libreoffice #Collabora #TDF #Krise

https://forum.linuxguides.de/core/index.php?article/54-libreoffice-am-abgrund-wie-die-document-foundation-ihre-eigenen-gr%C3%BCnder-vor-die/

LibreOffice am Abgrund: Wie die Document Foundation ihre eigenen Gründer vor die Tür setzte - Linux Guides Community

LibreOffice steckt in der schwersten Krise seit seiner Gründung. Die Document Foundation hat im April 2026 über 30 Kernentwickler aus ihren Gremien ausgeschlossen - darunter die Leute, die fast die Hälfte des gesamten Codes geschrieben haben. Der Trick: Erst verklagt man den Partner, dann schliesst man seine Mitarbeiter mit Verweis auf die laufende Klage aus. Collabora, das Unternehmen hinter den ausgeschlossenen Entwicklern, schlägt mit einem eigenen Desktop-Produkt zurück, das technologisch einen klaren Bruch mit dem alten LibreOffice darstellt. Droht LibreOffice das gleiche Schicksal wie Apache OpenOffice? Eine Analyse der Eskalationsspirale - vom gescheiterten Branding-Experiment 2020 über den Krieg um die Cloud bis zum endgültigen Bruch im April 2026.

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