Paolo Vecchi @paolo@mastodon.opencloud.lu

I feel your pain @o0karen0o
Also today I had to participate to more events on Zoom and Teams that could have easily been Jitsi or BigBlueButton based events.

It's even more annoying for the fact that I host several Jitsi/BBB instances and I sometimes offer them for free to avoid having to use the others but... "The users are familiar with mainstream platforms" 🤦‍♂️

@nemobis Facebook's own research with plenty of colourful slides already confirmed the damages it can do.

It would be nice to see this as a permanent result of the query...
#facebookdown

@thegibson What's Facebook?

Sorry guys... actually not, I'm not sorry.
#Facebookdown

@saxnot The big difference is that Virtualbox is a brand and project owned by Oracle while @libreoffice is a registered charity so, by choice, we cannot charge for LibreOffice as a product, we have to rely on the good will of people donating or contributing with code, marketing, documentation, translations, etc.

Please do become a member as well, it's free, so you'll have the opportunity to vote and have me again on the Board in the upcoming elections ;-)

Hi @Ahuka, your contributions matter to me a lot.
It's thanks to people like you that @libreoffice can carry on developing the best Open Source Office Suite available.
Apart from donations there are also other ways to help out:
https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

@tuxicoman
The majority of that 68% comes from members of the ecosystem which pays specialised developers to fix bugs and write new features. They generally get money from TDF tenders and by selling their services.

95% of companies that could contribute with documentations, translations, some code, money or other things do not contribute back.

@libreoffice

@saxnot If some need enterprise support then they can buy it from companies that offer it https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/
The offer is there, organisations need just to realise that is available. @libreoffice

90% of donations to the @libreoffice projects are coming from individuals.
Companies unfortunately do not contribute that much in economical or material way on an #OpenSource project that is the major barrier between freedom of choice and a full monopoly by Microsoft in the office productivity market.

Organisations should realise that a strong LibreOffice helps in creating a healthy competition and lower also their costs.

So, please, contribute in any way you can to help yourself.

@ademalsasa There is more to come soon.
In the meantime if you need to explain to someone why ODF should be used have a look at Italo Vignoli's slides and talks:

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/odf_for_interoperability/

https://libocon.org/assets/Conference/Almeria/almeria-odf.pdf
video: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/videos/watch/811011cf-05a3-41f4-8b35-62f2b48372ca

@vfrmedia

I was part of the vast team that convinced the UK Government to adopt #ODF as the standard file format. Many institutions fail to use it but I'm pleased to know that at least Ofcom is doing the right thing 👍 @vfrmedia @ademalsasa

Excellent @ademalsasa!

It would be great if more organisations would do that to make #ODF the first choice for documents exchange and archival.

#OOXML is a lie.

If you want to use an Open Standard for your documents use #ODF
Live now at the @libreoffice
conference
https://conference.libreoffice.org/2021/join-the-conference/