Hi, Congratulations, this demonstrates the power of community. Viva LibreOffice and freedom.
Clóvis On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Florian Effenberger < [email protected]> wrote: > Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document > Foundation > > LibreOffice Community accomplishes next major milestone > Ongoing donations to support marketing, infrastructure and development > > > The Community around LibreOffice, the free personal productivity suite, has > accomplished the next major milestone in establishing The Document > Foundation as a legal entity. In just eight days, some 2,000 donors from all > over the world contributed €50,000 for the capital stock necessary to set-up > the legal entity in Germany. > > "We still can't believe it," says Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee > member. "It happened in such a short period of time and was beyond our > wildest expectations. You all really rock! On behalf of the Community, the > Steering Committee would like to thank all the donors for their generous > support." > > The €50,000 collected will form the Foundation's paid-up capital, ensuring > a permanent future for the organization after the legal paperwork is > complete, based in Germany. The capital will be frozen assets for the > Foundation: the funds cannot be spent, and we will be able to avail just the > annual interest. All money donated from now on will actually bankroll our > ongoing running costs for things such as marketing, hardware, > infrastructure, attending trade shows, initial financing of merchandising > material and, of course, developing new and exciting ideas. > > "So we still need your support: Every donation helps to pay for our future > operational running," Effenberger adds. > > Details on how to donate to The Document Foundation and how the money will > be spent are available at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org > > Information about LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org > The home of The Document Foundation is at > http://www.documentfoundation.org > > > About The Document Foundation > > The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of > the LibreOffice community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic > organization over the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better > reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will > enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will > protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first > decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will > co-ordinate activity across the community. > > Media Contacts > > Florian Effenberger (Germany) > Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: [email protected] > Olivier Hallot (Brazil) > Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: [email protected] > Charles H. Schulz (France) > Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: [email protected] > Italo Vignoli (Italy) > Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: [email protected] > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Clóvis Tristão Mobile: 55 (19) 9117-3116 MSN: [email protected] Skype: tclovis GTalk: [email protected] Facebook: clovis.tristao Twitter: @tclovis Identi.ca: tclovis -------------------;~)---- Be Cool, use GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------- BrOffice.org --> http://broffice.org/ LibreOffice.org --> http://libreoffice.org/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
