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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 1h

Had AI agent pick up the phone at local store today. Drove me nuts, but with a combination of „escalation“, „talk to staff“, coughing & „urgent call back“ I could somehow evade that nonsense and talk to an actual human being. Maybe made life easier for the store, but not for me.

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have Schadenfreude over the #AWS outage. Issues can happen and I feel with their admins. However, it shows us also how important it is to have the option to self-host services and not be forced to use a cloud. Choice matters, #digitalsovereignty matters.

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 2d

I really love the versatility and flexibility of #MikroTik devices. Had a switch broken (external circumstances) at the office and could easily setup a wifi-to-ethernet bridge with an old wAP ac. Took just few minutes - kudos!

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 11d

#digitaleSouveränität bedeutet für mich ganz persönlich auch, dass ich Dokumente, Rechnungen und Verträge auch per E-Mail erhalten kann und Support ebenfalls per E-Mail erreichbar ist. Die Nutzung von proprietären Apps, Messengern und Webportalen darf niemals verpflichtend sein.

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 14d

Reflecting on 21 years in #opensource and free software in my talk this November at #SFScon in Bolzano: www.sfscon.it/talks/why-op...

Why open source communities do(n’t) work (anymore) - SFSCON

SFSCON Talk

www.sfscon.it

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 16d

#Gemeinnützige #Stiftungen und #Vereine müssen viele Regeln beachten und diverse Meldepflichten erfüllen. Einen ersten Überblick gebe ich in unserem Forum: community.documentfoundation.org/tags/c/board...

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 16d

Am kommenden Montag, 13. Oktober, trifft sich die deutschsprachige #LibreOffice #Community um 18 Uhr zu einer Videokonferenz. Mehr Infos unter listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/2...

[de-discuss] Agenda-Vorschläge für den deutschsprachigen Community-Call – The Document Foundation Mailing List Archives

listarchives.libreoffice.org

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 16d

My presentation slides about the #foundation behind #LibreOffice from the Luxembourg #OpenSource Conference are now online: effenberger.org/en/talks/

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 21d

Heading back from the #OpenSource Conference #Luxembourg. An excellent conference, extremely well organized, and several hundred attendees. Gave a presentation about #LibreOffice and had good conversations. Will definitely be a must for next year! Up next: #SFScon in November.

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 22d

Really nice morning at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg. Learned about how LibreOffice is widely used, and how governments and public agencies embrace free and open source software. #OSCL2025

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 23d

Arrived in Luxembourg and looking forward to tomorrow‘s open source conference! Honoured to give a talk about TDF. conference.opensource.lu

Open Source Conference Luxembourg

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 25d

Happy Birthday, #LibreOffice

community.documentfoundation.org/t/happy-birt...

Happy Birthday, LibreOffice!

Today marks the 15th birthday of LibreOffice. On September 28, 2010 we have all collectively announced the creation of the LibreOffice project, and one and a half years later also the incorporation of...

community.documentfoundation.org

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 28d

Proud to be a speaker at next week‘s Open Source Conference in Luxembourg!

blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09...

LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg - The Document Foundation Blog

The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice C...

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · 29d

community.documentfoundation.org/t/the-admini...

The administration of a nonprofit organisation

Hello everyone, just lately, I have published an article about the administrative situation at TDF. Having spoken with several community members during the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, I would...

community.documentfoundation.org

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Opening speech of the #LibreOffice Conference 2025: youtu.be/P0GNevAzvgM?...

LibreOffice Conference 2025 Opening Speech

YouTube video by Florian Effenberger

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind #LibreOffice, offers a paid developer role with a focus on #macOS: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08...

Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) - The Document Foundation Blog

Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open ...

blog.documentfoundation.org

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jul 25

Happy #SysAdminDay!

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jul 10

As a second article on how to run a #nonprofit #foundation I‘ve published TDF’s board onboarding howto at community.documentfoundation.org/t/tdf-board-... #LibreOffice

TDF Board Onboarding How-To (version 20250709-01)

TDF Board Onboarding How-To version 20250709-01 Introduction When a new board of directors takes office, there is quite some learning curve and onboarding required. Over the years, I have developed ...

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jul 9

As a first article on how to run a #nonprofit #foundation I‘ve published TDF’s budgeting howto at community.documentfoundation.org/t/tdf-budget... #LibreOffice

TDF Budgeting How-To (version 20250708-01)

TDF Budgeting How-To version 20250708-01 Introduction Thanks a lot for reading! Honest disclosure: Budgetting is neither a particularly exciting topic nor a very rewarding one. However, it is one o...

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jul 2

Any of my followers knows a contact at #instagram to review an impersonated account of a public entity? Name and logo are copied exactly from the genuine account. Reporting in the app is pointless.

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jun 22

Have been struggling with the #Nextcloud app lately on #iOS which told me „unsupported browser“ and didn’t login. Problem seems to be related to 2FA or encryption. If you experience the same: Workaround seems to be an app password - login works fine again with this.

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jun 17

Seems that aged quickly. Worked for about a day, now broken again. I don’t get it.

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jun 17

Too short to make the final call, but it seems the #iOS Mail app issues with #Dovecot and IMAP IDLE could be related to Apple’s privacy and IP masking features. Disabling them client-wise for now seems to solve the problem

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Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Jun 2

I despair. Almost every mobile mail client you get these days is either „AI-powered“, comes with a subscription model, or both, with one justifying the other. I now use Roundcube in the mobile browser and am quite happy. It’s an e-mail client - heck, I don‘t need AI…

Florian Effenberger @floeff.bsky.social · Apr 4

The newest version of #ChatGPT has an important feature improvement: it seems it can finally create proper images of Kässpatzn („Swabian Noodles“). 😁