Florian Effenberger is executive director at
The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation (TDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development of LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite. Established in 2010 by members of the OpenOffice.org community, TDF aims to provide a vendor-neutral p ...
, the legal entity behind
LibreOffice
LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...
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OpenOffice, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation
He started his work on
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice being considered mostly d ...
and eventually became Co-Lead of the Marketing Project in July 2007.
In January 2010, Effenberger was elected Lead,
a role he held until he stepped down in October 2010, in favor of his engagement with the group behind the LibreOffice
fork
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Florian Effenberger is one of the founders of The Document Foundation,
and one of its spokespersons.
He became chairman of the board in October 2011,
a role he held until February 2014.
As the founder of The Document Foundation, the association
Freies Office Deutschland e.V.,
he holds a seat at the supervisory board and previously served in the board of directors.
In December 2012 The Document Foundation announced that Effenberger is now hired.
In March 2014, he was promoted executive director.
He is one of the creators of the Munich open source meetups
and invented the idea of open source cooking.
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Florian Effenberger's presentationsat SpeakerDeck
Articles publishedat Linux-Community
Old blogat Linux-Magazin
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Living people
LibreOffice
People from Kaufbeuren
Year of birth missing (living people)