Association / Legal Notice

LATEXDO

LATEXDO is a declared French nonprofit association governed by the law of July 1, 1901. It builds and maintains free, open-source LaTeX tools, documentation, and research workflows for students, researchers, educators, reviewers, and technical writers.

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
Email
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.