[tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces the first group of LibreOffice Certified Developers

Berlin & Barcelona, November 7, 2012 - The Document Foundation announces 
the first group of LibreOffice Certified Developers, who are recognized 
for their ability to hack LibreOffice code to develop new features or 
provide L3 support to enterprise users. They are: Bjoern Michaelsen 
(Canonical), Caolan McNamara (RedHat), Cedric Bosdonnat (SUSE), 
Christian Lohmaier (Volunteer), David Tardon (RedHat), Eike Rathke 
(RedHat), Eilidh McAdam (Lanedo), Fridrich Strba (SUSE), Jan Holesovsky 
(SUSE), Kohei Yoshida (SUSE), Lionel Elie Mamane (Volunteer), Lubos 
Lunak (SUSE), Markus Mohrhard (Volunteer), Michael Meeks (SUSE), Michael 
Stahl (RedHat), Petr Mladek (SUSE), Rene Engelhard (Volunteer), Stephan 
Bergmann (RedHat), Thorsten Behrens (SUSE), Timár András (SUSE) and Tor 
Lillqvist (SUSE).

Certification is a key milestone for building LibreOffice ecosystem, and 
increase the number of organizations capable of adding value around the 
best free office suite ever (and, hopefully, help to spread the adoption 
over proprietary and open source office suites). LibreOffice Certified 
Developers have been peer reviewed by the Engineering Steering 
Committee, which has appointed Bjoern Michaelsen, Jan Holesovsky and 
Stephan Bergmann to manage the certification process for developers.

Certified developers extend the reach of the community to the corporate 
world, and offer CIOs and IT managers a professional recognition in line 
with corporate requests for added value development and support 
services. TDF will soon extend certification to Migration Professionals 
and Training Professionals, starting from early 2013.

The LibreOffice Certification Program is outlined on the project website 
at the following address: 
http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/. There is also a 
specific mailing list - certification@global.libreoffice.org - dedicated 
to the certification project, which is reaching all the members of the 
Certification Committee. Requests for information and applications 
should be addressed to this mailing list.

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