Florian Effenberger
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Florian Effenberger is executive director at
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, the legal entity behind LibreOffice.


OpenOffice, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation

He started his work on OpenOffice.org and eventually became Co-Lead of the Marketing Project in July 2007. In January 2010, Effenberger was elected Lead, a role he held until he stepped down in October 2010, in favor of his engagement with the group behind the LibreOffice fork. Florian Effenberger is one of the founders of The Document Foundation, and one of its spokespersons. He became chairman of the board in October 2011, a role he held until February 2014. At the founder of The Document Foundation, the association Freies Office Deutschland e.V., he holds a seat at the supervisory board and previously served in the board of directors. In December 2012 The Document Foundation announced that Effenberger is now hired. In March 2014, he was promoted executive director. He is one of the creators of the Munich open source meetups and invented the idea of open source cooking.


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Florian Effenberger's presentations
at SpeakerDeck
Articles published
at Linux-Community
Old blog
at Linux-Magazin {{DEFAULTSORT:Effenberger, Florian Living people LibreOffice People from Kaufbeuren Year of birth missing (living people)