Florian Effenberger Email & Phone Number

I have been involved in free software for 18 years and am the executive director of The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit foundation behind LibreOffice.My first contact with open source was during my school time, when in 2001 several classmates and me jointly developed a school network based on open source, including central user management and software deployment.Shortly thereafter, in 2004, I got in touch with the OpenOffice.org community at that time, where I was soon able to volunteer as lead of the German and international marketing projects as well as to help with the infrastructure. In the non-profit support association OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V., from 2006 on I became involved first as a youth leader, then as a board member and a later on supervisory board member, which should turn out to be a helpful experience for the years to come. One of the strengths of open source projects is that everyone can easily try out different areas in order to learn out about their interests and strengths.In 2010, I was one of the co-founders of the LibreOffice project and then, until 2014, the first chairman of the board of the non-profit The Document Foundation (TDF), whose statutes I co-authored. Since March 2014, I have been the executive director of the foundation and am responsible for the daily operations with a donation volume of more than 1.3 million euros per year. I also regularly deal with international trademark, copyright and various tax topics. Today, the foundation has hundreds of contributors spread around the globe - the international cooperation and the insight into all the different cultures and ways of life are one of the most valuable experiences for me.As a professional journalist, I have so far published over 130 articles in print and online magazines worldwide on topics such as free software, open standards, and legal issues, and previously advised several companies on their open source strategy, including how to publish their own software as open source and how to build a community. I also worked for a law firm in IT and media law.Together with the Munich Café Netzwerk, an institution of the local youth service, we started the open source meetings and the open source cooking.Since 1992, after a five-year stay abroad, I have been back to my hometown of Kaufbeuren. I am a proud uncle, I enjoy the beautiful landscape of the Allgäu region, which I also like to photograph, and I like enjoy to listen to music on good headphones.

Listed skills include Open Source, Open Source Software, Linux, Free Software, and 4 others.

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  Universität Augsburg