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The Document Foundation

LibreOffice Writer is part of the LibreOffice suite, a project of The Document Foundation, a charitable foundation under German law based in Berlin. The software is free and licensed under copyleft licences; the foundation lives on donations and on support from the companies on its Advisory Board.

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LibreOffice Writer at a glance

Founded
2010
Based in
Berlin, Germany
Team
The foundation gives no headcount. Its team page names the paid staff and their jobs: developers, QA, release engineering, infrastructure, UX, documentation and marketing.
Ownership
Nonprofit

Who runs LibreOffice Writer

The people The Document Foundation names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.

LibreOffice Writer funding

No investors: as a German charitable foundation it is paid for by donations and by organisations that give financial or other support through its Advisory Board. It publishes annual reports and accounting ledgers on its Financials and Reports page. documentfoundation.orgdocumentfoundation.org

Company details

Ownership
Nonprofit. The imprint says The Document Foundation is a charitable foundation under German law (gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts), overseen by the Berlin senate's foundation authority. Its timeline says it was announced in 2010 and incorporated in Berlin in 2012. libreoffice.org
Founded
2010 libreoffice.org
Based in
Berlin, Germany libreoffice.org
Team
The foundation gives no headcount. Its team page names the paid staff and their jobs: developers, QA, release engineering, infrastructure, UX, documentation and marketing. documentfoundation.org
Hiring
No careers page. Job openings go in the Tenders section of its blog; the most recent is a full-time remote Marketing and Communication Professional, posted in July 2026. blog.documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice Writer on social media and the web

Only accounts The Document Foundation links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.

How to contact The Document Foundation

The ways The Document Foundation publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.

LibreOffice Writer news and launches

Media kit

The The Document Foundation media kit

Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by The Document Foundation.

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Questions about LibreOffice Writer the company

Who runs LibreOffice Writer?

The Document Foundation's pages name Florian Effenberger (Executive Director), Eliane Domingos de Sousa (Chairperson of the Board), Simon Phipps (Deputy Chairperson of the Board) and Sophie Gautier (Board member and Foundation Coordinator). None of them is named as chief executive on the pages read, as read on Oct 18, 2026.

Who founded LibreOffice Writer?

Sophie Gautier is named as a founder of The Document Foundation, which was founded in 2010.

How much funding has LibreOffice Writer raised?

No investors: as a German charitable foundation it is paid for by donations and by organisations that give financial or other support through its Advisory Board. It publishes annual reports and accounting ledgers on its Financials and Reports page.

What is LibreOffice Writer's valuation?

No valuation was found in The Document Foundation's announcements or in news reports, as read on Oct 18, 2026. Private companies usually do not publish one.

Who owns LibreOffice Writer?

The imprint says The Document Foundation is a charitable foundation under German law (gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts), overseen by the Berlin senate's foundation authority. Its timeline says it was announced in 2010 and incorporated in Berlin in 2012.

Where is LibreOffice Writer based?

The Document Foundation gives its base as Berlin, Germany.

How many people work at LibreOffice Writer?

The foundation gives no headcount. Its team page names the paid staff and their jobs: developers, QA, release engineering, infrastructure, UX, documentation and marketing.

Is LibreOffice Writer hiring?

No careers page. Job openings go in the Tenders section of its blog; the most recent is a full-time remote Marketing and Communication Professional, posted in July 2026.

Is LibreOffice Writer on social media?

The Document Foundation links to its own accounts on YouTube, Facebook, Bluesky and Reddit. The links are on this page, taken from The Document Foundation's own site.

Where this comes from

Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from The Document Foundation’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.

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