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Florian Effenberger
Effenberger's picture from his personal blog
NationalityGerman
OccupationExecutive Director at The Document Foundation
Call signfloeff
Websiteeffenberger.org

Florian Effenberger is executive director at The Document Foundation, the legal entity behind LibreOffice.[1]

OpenOffice, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation

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He started his work on OpenOffice.org and eventually became Co-Lead of the Marketing Project in July 2007.[2] In January 2010, Effenberger was elected Lead,[3] a role he held until he stepped down in October 2010, in favor of his engagement with the group behind the LibreOffice fork.[4]

Florian Effenberger is one of the founders of The Document Foundation,[5] and one of its spokespersons.[6] He became chairman of the board in October 2011,[7] a role he held until February 2014.

As the founder of The Document Foundation, the association Freies Office Deutschland e.V.,[8] he holds a seat at the supervisory board and previously served in the board of directors.[9] In December 2012 The Document Foundation announced that Effenberger is now hired.[10] In March 2014, he was promoted executive director.[11]

He is one of the creators of the Munich open source meetups[12] and invented the idea of open source cooking.[13]

Further reading

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  • "Interview on marketing free and open source software". Age of Peers. YouTube. 28 March 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  • "Fellowship interview with Florian Effenberger". FSFE. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  • "Interview with Florian Effenberger at FOSDEM". YouTube. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  • "Interview with Florian Effenberger, TDF Executive Director". The Document Foundation. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Florian Effenberger: LibreOffice Adoption Is Growing Globally". TFiR. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Ten Thoughts on Community Leadership (SFScon 2020)". YouTube. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "The Document Foundation - Transparent & meritocratic future of free office software". YouTube. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "Ten Thoughts on Community Leadership (FOSS Backstage 2020)". YouTube. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "LibreOffice interview: Florian Effenberger, Executive Director at TDF". YouTube. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  • "On sessions, statutes and software (openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020)". YouTube. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

References

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  1. ^ "Selbstorganisation ist entscheidend" (in German). Die Stiftung. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  2. ^ McCreesh, John. "New Marketing Project co-Lead". discuss@openoffice.org. The Mail Archive. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. ^ McCreesh, John. "Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead". discuss@openoffice.org. The Mail Archive. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  4. ^ "OpenOffice.org Council members resign". The H Open. Heinz Heise. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  5. ^ "The Document Foundation Founders". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  6. ^ "The Document Foundation Contact Us". The Document Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Document Foundation Board 2011: Final Results". LWN.net. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  8. ^ "The Document Foundation finally incorporated". The H Open. Heinz Heise. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  9. ^ Goebel, Hartmut; Kleinert, Jan; Magnus, Nils. "Den Start in einen freien Beruf organisieren" (in German). Linux-Magazin. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  10. ^ Vignoli, Italo (26 December 2012). "TDF in 2012: a summary". Blog. The Document Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  11. ^ Vignoli, Italo (19 February 2014). "The New Board of Directors of the Document Foundation". Blog. The Document Foundation. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  12. ^ "Archiv". Open-Source-Treffen. Open-Source-Treffen e.V. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Von Spaghetti-Code, Forks und Slices". LinuxUser. Computec Media GmbH. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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