I just agreed to give a main-track talk at OggCamp <https://oggcamp.org> in Manchester, England on October 19 about TDF's two sustainability initiatives.
*Title*: Making Free Productivity Software Sustainable *Abstract*: Productivity software like LibreOffice has long been sustained by the commercial activities of community members as well as the contributions of countless volunteers. That's also driven standards engagement, like the work around Open Document Format (ODF). But the cloud is slowly strangling the desktop support business, and spare-time volunteers may not be enough for complex, mature software. The Document Foundation has been innovating to sustain LibreOffice and ODF; this talk will describe the COSM <https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/07/02/the-cosm-project/> and TDC projects, and ask whether similar approaches might sustain other open source desktop software. Do come along if you are able - tickets: https://oggcamp.org/tickets -- *Simon Phipps*, * Deputy Board Director, *The Document Foundation *Official address*: Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
