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Italo did something like that for our annual report, so maybe poke him directly and see if you can re-use his work

Hi Mike, all,

are there any updates on this? KDE's timeline is very cool. What was your idea? A new infographic or a webpage or what?

Ciao,
Marina

Marina Latini wrote:

are there any updates on this? KDE's timeline is very cool. What was your idea? A new infographic or a webpage or what?

Hi Marina,

I haven't had much time to work on it yet, but if you think it's important I'll bump it up the TODO list to a higher position! Yes, I was thinking of something like the KDE website, also in a form that can be compressed into a single document.

Updated timeline after feedback from Eike and Italo:

LibreOffice timeline

• 1985: StarWriter 1.0 for DOS, written by Marco Börries, is released
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#/media/File:Starwriter_compact_2.png

• 1985: StarDivision formed in Lüneburg, northern Germany
  IMG: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/StarDivision-CPC.png/440px-StarDivision-CPC.png

• 1993: StarWriter 1.0 for Windows was released, which prepared the ground for the later StarOffice

• 1994: StarWriter 2.0 was released for Windows, OS/2, Mac OS and Solaris (SPARC)

• 1995: StarOffice 3.0 is released, running on Windows, OS/2, Solaris and Mac OS
  IMG: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/31-5d9fe30adda3b385c3f82cbd74b4e8c5-StarOffice%203.1%20-%20WriterAbout.png

• 1999: Sun Microsystems buys StarDivision for $73.5 million

• 2000: StarOffice 5.2 is released as a free download for personal use
  IMG: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5156XZX734L._SX342_.jpg

• 2000: Sun Microsystems open sources StarOffice to create OpenOffice.org
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#/media/File:OpenOffice.org_1.1_official_main_logo_2col_trans.png

• 2001: OpenOffice.org XML, the default file format used by the suite, is contributed to the OASIS consortium - this is later developed into the Open Document Format (ODF)

• 2002: OpenOffice.org 1.0 is released
  IMG: https://www.openoffice.org/screenshots/images/writer1_0_2.png

• 2003: OpenOffice.org 1.1 is released, with one-click Export to PDF and Export presentations to Flash (.SWF). It also allowed third-party add-ons

• 2005: OpenOffice.org 2.0 is released, using the Open Document Format (ODF) as default. Improvements include better performance, lower memory usage, and greater scripting capabilities
  IMG: https://www.openoffice.org/branding/images/Splashscreen_w_Sun_Logo.png

• 2008: OpenOffice.org 3.0 is released, with a native interface on macOS, OOXML import, and support for ODF 1.2. Also included is a new Start Center
  IMG: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Sun_Start_Center.png

• 2009: Oracle buys Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion

• 2010: The Document Foundation is announced by members of the OpenOffice.org community. It is a non-profit, independent, self-governing and democratic foundation to further the development of open source office software (incorporated in Berlin in 2012). The foundation's main project is LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice.org
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo-libreoffice.svg

• 2011: LibreOffice 3.3 is released, with unique features including SVG image import, new and improved import filters (Microsoft Word, Lotus Word Pro, WordPerfect, PPTX)
  IMG: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_Initial-Artwork-Logo_ColorLogoBasic_2000px.png

• 2011: Oracle stops development of OpenOffice.org and contributes the trademarks to the Apache Software Foundation

• 2011: In Denmark, 13 hospitals in the Copenhagen region decide to move away from a proprietary office suite and switch to LibreOffice on almost 25,000 PCs

• 2011: LibreOffice 3.4 is released, with memory usage improvements, code cleanups, improved GTK+ theme integration, and reduced Java dependencies

• 2011: The first LibreOffice Conference is held in Paris, France
  IMG: https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6172/6243644724_4285690254_b.jpg

• 2012: MIMO, France’s inter-ministerial working group on free software, switches to free software office tools, installing LibreOffice on nearly all 500,000 desktops of France’s ministries, including Energy, Defense, Interior, Education and Finance

• 2012: LibreOffice 3.5 is released, with a native PostgreSQL driver, import of Microsoft Visio .vsd files, AES encryption support for ODF file encryption, and the ability to install on Microsoft Windows via a .msi file

• 2012: LibreOffice 3.6 is released, with support for colour scales and data bars in Calc, a word count in the status bar, and 10 new Impress master pages

• 2012: The second LibreOffice Conference is held in Berlin, Germany
  IMG: https://thorstenb.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/img_5265.jpg

• 2013: LibreOffice 4.0 is released, with import/export support for native RTF math expressions, import filter for Microsoft Publisher files, improved XLSX loading times, and CMIS support

• 2013: The administration of the Spanish region of Valencia completed the migration of all 120,000 PCs, including in schools and courts, to LibreOffice

• 2013: LibreOffice 4.1 is released, with a new sidebar, gradient backgrounds, embedding fonts in documents, export of charts to ODC files, and text layout via Core Text on macOS and HarfBuzz on Linux

• 2013: The LibreOffice Conference takes place in Milan, Italy
  IMG: http://www.lanedo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_3638.jpg

• 2014: LibreOffice 4.2 is released, with file lists in the Start Center, calc performance improvements (including OpenCL for calculations via graphics cards), and import filters for Apple Keynote and AbiWord files

• 2014: The Document Foundation announces the Document Liberation Project, which develops libraries to help open source applications handle proprietary file formats
  IMG: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/8/8c/Dlp_document-liberation-own-your-content.png

• 2014: The French city of Toulouse announced it saved €1 million by migrating thousands of workstations to LibreOffice
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toulouse_Capitole_Night_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg

• 2014: The United Kingdom government formally adopted the open document format (ODF) as the standard format for its documents
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:HM_Government_logo.svg

• 2014: LibreOffice 4.3 is released, with new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and text frames, improved PDF import, a better default icon set, printable comments in margins, and support for paragraphs of over 65,536 characters in Writer

• 2014: The LibreOffice Conference is held in Bern, Switzerland
  IMG: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/LibreOfficeConference2014-e.jpg

• 2015: LibreOffice 5.0 is released, with style previews in the sidebar, emoji support in 22 languages, the ability to crop images in Writer, Microsoft Word-compatible text highlighting and shading, and a UI for controlling conditional formatting in Calc

• 2015: The Italian Ministry of Defence announced that it would install LibreOffice on 120,000 PCs
  IMG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MinisteroAeronautica.jpg

• 2015: The fifth LibreOffice Conference takes place in Aarhus, Denmark
  IMG: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPrPgzgXAAUJK1J.jpg:large

• 2015: The administration of the city of Nantes, France, announces that it has switched 2,500 PCs to LibreOffice

• 2015: Yi-Lan County in Taiwan migrates 9,000 PCs to LibreOffice

• 2016: LibreOffice 5.1 is released, with an improved and reorganised user interface, more document import filters, a hide whitespace option in Writer, and the ability to equalise object sizes in Impress

• 2016: Lithuania's police department switches to LibreOffice on 8,000 PCs

• 2016: Certified developers begin combining LibreOffice Online with open source file sharing solutions to offer cloud-based versions of the suite

• 2016: LibreOffice 5.2 is released, with new drawing tools in Writer and Calc, single toolbar modes, extensive function tooltips in Calc, and import of Microsoft Word for DOS files

• 2016: The LibreOffice Conference is held in Brno, Czech Republic
  IMG: https://i1.wp.com/blog.documentfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/libreoffice_conference_2016.jpg

• 2017: LibreOffice 5.3 is released, with table styles in Writer, new options for merging non-empty cells in Calc, improvements to colour and gradient management, better templates in Impress, and an experimental Notebookbar interface option. This is also the first full source code release of LibreOffice Online