The Internet, October 6, 2010 – One full week has gone by since the

announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some

numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first

day.

The beta of LibreOffice has been downloaded over 80.000 times. The

infrastructure has expanded dramatically from 25 to 45 working mirrors

in 25 countries (in every continent), including islands in the Pacific

Ocean. This number is close to half the mirrors achieved by

OpenOffice.org during ten years of history of the project.

People have started to contribute to the code, suggesting features,

committing patches and filing bugs. In just one week, around 80 code

contributions (patches, and direct commits) have been accepted in

LibreOffice from a total of 27 volunteers, several of them newly-won,

with around 100 developers hanging out on the #libreoffice irc channel

which is buzzing with activity (around 14,000 messages sent).

Turning to the wider community, 2.000 people have subscribed to the list

announce@ to keep up with the latest TDF news, and 300 people to the

discussion list discuss@, where there has been an average of 100

messages per day.

To round up the numbers, there are nearly 600 people following TDF

tweets, over 150 following the identi.ca TDF account, and over 1.000

fans on Facebook. The traffic on the server has been in the region of

500 GB.

In its only official response to the creation of the Foundation, Oracle

has stated: “Oracle is investing substantial resources in

OpenOffice.org. With more than one hundred million users, we believe

OpenOffice.org is the most advanced, most feature rich open source

implementation and will strongly encourage the Open Office community to

continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org.”

The Foundation understands from this that Oracle has no immediate plans

to support the Foundation, or to transfer community assets such as the

OpenOffice.org trademark. However, the Foundation hopes this position

will change as the company sees the volunteer community – an essential

component of OpenOffice’s past success – swing its support behind the

new Foundation. In the meantime, the Foundation will continue software

development under the LibreOffice brand.