The Document Foundation welcomes France's MIMO in the Advisory Board

MIMO (Inter-Ministry Mutualisation for an Open Productivity Suite) represents several bodies of the
French government, and fosters the diversity of TDF Advisory Board by adding the voice of 500,000
professional users

Berlin, June 17, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that MIMO - the working group of
the French government including several ministries and administrations [1], for a total of 500,000
desktops - is now an official member of the foundation's Advisory Board. MIMO primary goal is to
give CIOs and their staff a way to share experience on office suites and operating systems, in
order to speed up desktop modernisation.

MIMO is focused on the free desktop, and is one of a number of working groups focusing each one on
a specific area of the information system under the guidance of the DISIC (French state CIO).
Together, the working groups are creating an official set of free software for the ministries, with
a specific application for each task.

MIMO has standardised on LibreOffice, developed by the Document Foundation, and is contributing to
the development of the office suite through a commercial support agreement provided by certified
developers. The role of MIMO is to validate successive versions of LibreOffice and make them
compatible with the IT infrastructure and processes of member ministries. A single, standard
LibreOffice version is validated and approved every year, according to the roadmap planned by MIMO
members

To be approved, a version of LibreOffice is submitted to a qualification process: the software is
tested to verify its compatibility with other business applications, and becomes a certified MIMO
version only after all QA tests have been passed. The Ministry of Interior - for example - has a
ten-step qualification process, with tests including compatibility with business applications,
macros and deployment tools. The decision is taken by all the members representing the ministries.

MIMO is joining the current 8 members of TDF Advisory Board - Google, Intel, Lanedo, Red Hat, SUSE,
Freies Office Deutschland e.V., Software in the Public Interest (SPI) and the Free Software
Foundation (FSF) - and will be represented by Laure Patas d'Illiers, of the Department of Treasury
and Finance of the French government.

[1] Ministries: Agriculture, Culture, Defense, Economy, Education, Environment, Finance, Interior,
Justice. Administrations: CAF (Family Allocation Funds), DILA (Direction of Legal / Administrative
Information), ENA (National Administration School), National Assembly.

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About MIMO

The MIMO working group was created by the Agency for Digital Development in Administration (ADAE)
in 2005, under the governance of the Prime Minister. Since 2011, MIMO has been controlled by DISIC
(Direction Interministérielle des Systèmes d'Information et de Communication), whose mission is
to coordinate IT policy in French administrations. DISIC has launched working groups on cloud
computing, the organisation and planning of IT systems, and Open Source. MIMO and the Open Source
working group are managed by the CIO of the Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture).

About The Document Foundation (TDF)

The Document Foundation is an open, independent, self-governing, meritocratic organization, which
builds on ten years of dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org Community. TDF was created in the
belief that the culture born of an independent foundation brings out the best in corporate and
volunteer contributors, and will deliver the best free office suite. TDF is open to any individual
who agrees with its core values and contributes to its activities, and warmly welcomes corporate
participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals alongside other contributors in the
community. As of April 30, 2013, TDF has over 150 members and over 2,000 volunteers and
contributors worldwide.

Media Contact MIMO

E-mail: liste.bureau-llmimo@culture.gouv.fr

Media Contacts TDF

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
     Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org
Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
     Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org
Eliane Domingos de Sousa (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
     E-mail: elianedomingos@documentfoundation.org - Skype: elianedomingos
Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
     Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org
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