Making a community-managed FOSS project sustainable in the medium- to long-term https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/f4f1a059-bf77-4c25-a192-7ce1fa000c79 Strategies and tactics LibreOffice was announced in 2010. After 10 years, it was necessary to review and update the strategy based on the evolution of the office suite market, to improve the sustainability model. Enterprises are not supporting the project as much as individual users. Over time, this can represent a threat for the sustainability of the project. We have changed our strategy to educate enterprises about the right approach to FOSS, by giving back to ensure the long term sustainability of the LibreOffice project. LibreOffice was announced in 2010 to relaunch innovation of the already stagnant OpenOffice project. After 10 years of growth, it was necessary to review and update the strategy based on the evolution of the office suite market, to improve the sustainability model. In fact, enterprises - although deploying LibreOffice to save money over proprietary solutions - are not supporting the project as much as individual users. Over time, this can represent a threat for the sustainability, as development can be slowed down. We have therefore changed our strategy to educate enterprises about the right approach to FOSS, by giving back in one of the many available ways: purchase the LTS version from the ecosystem, fund the development of a specific feature, pay for the solution of a bug or a regression, and so on. The right approach from enterprises would ensure the long term sustainability of the LibreOffice project, and the evolution of the Open Document Format (ODF) ISO standard file format for true interoperability. Speaker: Italo Vignoli, Track: Community, Room: M.community, When: Saturday 5 February 2022, 10:00–11:00 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2022 event page, Slides & links Making a community-managed FOSS project sustainable in the medium- to long-term (audio), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Making a community-managed FOSS project sustainable in the medium- to long-term” by Italo Vignoli, FOSDEM 2022. Original recording: 2022/M.community/community_sustainable.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:29:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch Making a community-managed FOSS project sustainable in the medium- to long-term https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/f4f1a059-bf77-4c25-a192-7ce1fa000c79 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.