WTF is happening at the Document Foundation ?
It seems that all the people who were very active a decade ago are ejected!
https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-04-02-tdf-ejects-core-devs.html
One year ago, it was @italovignoli himself (for whom I have a deep respect)
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/i-am-exhausted-this-is-my-resignation-from-the-board-of-directors-of-the-document-foundation/12950
Where is the TDF that I enjoyed so much during #LibreOffice conferences 15 years ago?
What is happening?
For those interested, an history of Libreoffice:
https://ploum.net/de-staroffice-a-libreoffice-28-annees-dhistoire/index.html
Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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
[VOTE] Revoke votes related to LibreOffice Online atticiziation and freezing of repository
The great news of course is that there is one: Collabora Online - it is available for free download by anyone interested. The slightly sad news is that some people don’t know that yet. Sadly this is just incorrect. There are a couple of FAQ entries “who created LibreOffice Online” and “Who contributed to the mobile work” that present the facts (as of ~five years ago, when the entire development community around LOOL moved away to COOL, there is now a rather larger team working on COOL). We tr...
@halfa @ploum @italovignoli how are both events linked? (Dumping core devs vs. Collabora/LO feud)
@sll @halfa @ploum @italovignoli The core devs are (almost?) all Collabora employees
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