Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
Hi, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-02-26 15.12: Just out of curiosity, do you know the effective participation of Brazil in donations? It may be a percentage. sadly not yet - I will work on extracting currencies and e-mail domains out of the PayPal spreadsheet, but it will take some time :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff :: LibreOffice needs your support for setting up its Foundation! :: Join our fundraising at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
ok, Florian, Thanks, Luiz Hi, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-02-26 15.12: Just out of curiosity, do you know the effective participation of Brazil in donations? It may be a percentage. sadly not yet - I will work on extracting currencies and e-mail domains out of the PayPal spreadsheet, but it will take some time :) Florian -- Atenciosamente, Luiz Oliveira http://www.peticaopublica.com.br/PeticaoVer.aspx?pi=BrOffice -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
Hi, Florian Just out of curiosity, do you know the effective participation of Brazil in donations? It may be a percentage. Rgds, Luiz Oliveira Hi, Congratulations, this demonstrates the power of community. Viva LibreOffice and freedom. Clóvis On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org 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: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
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: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
Hi, Congratulations, this demonstrates the power of community. Viva LibreOffice and freedom. Clóvis On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org 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: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org 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: clovis_trista...@hotmail.com Skype: tclovis GTalk: tclo...@gmail.com 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 marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
