Official Information
- Full legal name
- LATEXDO
- Legal form
- 9220 - Declared association
- SIREN
- 108 130 311
- Head office SIRET
- 108 130 311 00013
- RNA
- W595047000
- Official address
- AVENUE PAUL LANGEVIN
59650 VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ
France - contact@latexdo.org
Mission
The association exists to make scientific and technical writing with LaTeX more accessible, reliable, and transparent. LaTeX is essential in academic and technical publishing, but installation, compilation, bibliography management, reviewer responses, and submission checks remain difficult for many users.
LATEXDO addresses these needs through public software, open-source code, and practical resources that anyone can inspect, use, and improve.
Finances / Transparency
The simple budget below presents the minimum monthly needs for running LATEXDO's public services. Detailed expenses are published on the expenses page.
- Resources Donations and sponsorship through HelloAsso, volunteer contributions, and community support. The public application remains free.
- Estimated monthly expenses 45 EUR per month for hosting, infrastructure, release verification, monitoring, and general operations.
- Hosting and infrastructure 20 EUR for the latexdo.org server and 5 EUR for backups and release artifact storage.
- Development and release work 6 EUR for build checks, release tests, and verification related to desktop versions.
- Operations 4 EUR for monitoring and a 10 EUR operating buffer for domains, TLS certificates, small tools, and unexpected project costs.
Legal Framework and Governance
Governance questions, association records, donations, and roadmap decisions are handled by the LATEXDO board. Requests can be sent through this form.
- Legal framework French association governed by the law of July 1, 1901.
- Financial transparency Operating expenses are published on the expenses page.
- Open source Source code is published at github.com/latexdo/latexdo.
Reference Texts
The main applicable text is the French Law of July 1, 1901 on associations. It defines the framework for nonprofit associations in France.
The main implementing text is the French Decree of August 16, 1901 implementing the law of July 1, 1901. It sets out the practical rules for declaration, publication, and administrative formalities.
Participate
People can participate by reporting bugs, improving documentation, contributing code, reviewing research workflows, or helping with governance and community support. The public starting point is the LATEXDO GitHub repository.
To join the association, fill out the membership form.