{"id":2221,"date":"2013-07-03T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:48:51","slug":"amd-joins-the-document-foundation-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"AMD joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/10\/LibreOffice.png\" alt=\"the LibreOffice logo\" width=\"128\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-268\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentfoundation.org\/\">The Document Foundation<\/a> (TDF), the organisation behind the free and open source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> suite, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/2013\/07\/03\/amd-joins-the-document-foundation-advisory-board-to-accelerate-libreoffice\/\">has announced<\/a> that chip maker AMD is now a member of its Advisory Board. AMD is a leading designer and integrator of pioneering technologies that are at the heart of the digital devices people use every day, pushing the boundaries of what is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is great to work on LibreOffice with The Document Foundation to expose the raw power of AMD GPUs and APUs, initially to spreadsheet users,&#8221; said Manju Hegde, corporate vice-president, Heterogeneous Solutions at AMD. &#8220;Bringing the parallelism and performance of our technology to traditional, mainstream business software users will be a welcome innovation for heavy duty spreadsheet users, particularly when combined with the compute capabilities of the upcoming generation of AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) based products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is exciting to work together with AMD and their ecosystem to take advantage of AMD\u2019s cutting edge innovation right inside LibreOffice,&#8221; said Michael Meeks, SUSE Distinguished Engineer and TDF Board Member, &#8220;The growth in performance and parallelism available in the GPUs of today, and particularly with AMD\u2019s revolutionary APUs of tomorrow, is something we\u2019re eager to expose to LibreOffice users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of AMD, The Document Foundation&#8217;s Advisory Board now consists of eleven members: AMD, Google, RedHat, SUSE, Intel, Lanedo, the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), the Inter-Ministry Mutalisation for an Open Productivity Suite (MIMO) from France, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Software in the Public Interest, and Germany&#8217; Freies Office Deutschland e.V.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Document Foundation (TDF), the organisation behind the free and open source LibreOffice suite, has announced that chip maker AMD is now a member of its Advisory Board. AMD is a leading designer and integrator of pioneering technologies that are at the heart of the digital devices people use every day, pushing the boundaries of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}