Divya TripathiApr 1
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth

Oh what a week in office land: not only #OnlyOffice vs. #EuroOffice (don't get me started on this one).

But also #collabora, main contributor to #LibreOffice, is kicked out of #TheDocumentFoundation, which leads them focusing on #CollaboraOffice. Not an April fool's joke although it sounds exactly like (a bad) one.

See Michael Meeks' post on this: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

Not exactly optimal, where we have a great window of opportunity to push further for #Digitalsovereignity

Apr 1 at 12:49pmWeb
Show threadSebastian "spaetz" SpaethApr 3

Looked a bit deeper into the precendents of @CollaboraOffice vs @tdforg now.

Some TDF board votes seem very much biased and unfair. E.g. to invalidate Simon Phipps @webmink vote in https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472/8 as a "conditional" and thereby "not countable" has a very bad reek.

All he did, is to say (paraphrased): "We should not have this vote for [reasons], BUT IF WE DO PROCEED, I VOTE NO"

Still, there are only looser, no winners, a pity.
#libreOffice #collaboraoffice #office

[VOTE] Adopt version 1 of Community Bylaws

Dear colleagues and friends in the Board, Dear Membership Committee, Dear Community, I think we now have a stable version of the document and I would like to submit the Community Bylaws to a vote. This proposal is not only mine, it’s a joint proposal from Paolo Vecchi and me, based on the many feedback and contributions from the Board, the MC and the community. The Community Bylaws were not only a statutory necessity, but it is an important tool for our governance as well as a guide for our ...

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Show threadSimon PhippsApr 3
@spaetz Note that the Board majority now conducts all votes by e-mail and usually doesn't hold a discussion before calling the vote as they all somehow know they will agree. As a result there's no way to comment except like this.
Show threadekariApr 1
@spaetz So, we have reached "People's Front of Judea"-moment 
Show threadSebastian "spaetz" SpaethApr 1
@ekari SPLITTERS!
Yes, it appears so....
Show threadDoctorG ♀️🏳️‍🌈Apr 1

@spaetz Dividing power instead of gaining more, such does not lead to market increase.

Was für ein Mist. Ist doch so.

Streiten die sich auch noch um die Krümel. So wird das mit Linux nie was an Verbreitung.

Show threadBjoern MichaelsenApr 1
@spaetz yeah, its Not Good(tm):
https://social.tchncs.de/@Sweetshark/116329839071048300
Show threadSebastian "spaetz" SpaethApr 1
@Sweetshark yes, many years ago, I did contributor statistics of Libreoffice (I believe they made it even on the webpage at some point), clustering them by contributing organization, and I recall these names vividly.
Show threadBjoern MichaelsenApr 1
@spaetz see also: https://openhub.net/p/libreoffice/contributors
... and look for "all time contributors" who have an non-empty "trend" in the last 5 years. Top 6 are: Caolan(*), Stephan(*), Noel, Miklos(*), @tml and Michael(*) ...
LibreOffice Open Source Project on Open Hub: Contributions Listing Page

Show threadBjoern MichaelsenApr 1
@spaetz @tml Well, in fact it seems like no independent volunteer keeps a say on TDF in the top 20 #LibreOffice contributors:
https://social.tchncs.de/@Sweetshark/116331544201320248
Show threadrailmeatApr 1

@spaetz

Open source politics makes the whole thing untenable. It is getting worse.

Show threadPaolo VecchiApr 5

@spaetz I totally agree that the situation is not optimal and that it should have been fixed a long time ago.

Naturally Michael Meeks is free to express his opinions on his own blog and his own company website so at least there he doesn't get told to stop spreading biased statements that aren't helping neither his company nor the community.

Lots of clarifications are overdue to stop speculations:
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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