[$] Starting The Document Collective

The Document Foundation (TDF) isthe home of the LibreOfficefree-software office suite; it provides financial, governance, andother administrative services to LibreOffice. The foundation wasestablished in part to ensure that commercial entities did not have undueinfluence on the project, which limited the types of activities in which itcan engage. In particular, selling branded versions of LibreOffice in themacOS and Windows app stores has not been something that TDF could tackle.The TDFboard of directors is looking to change that with the creation of a new entity, The Document Collective (TDC), to engage in commercial activity thatis complementary to that of TDF members-hopefully as an income source tohelp support TDF.