Art at the Tobacconist’s, with a Catalogue made with LibreOffice

Manuel Frassinetti is one of our heroic volunteers working on the localisation of LibreOffice, including the site and wiki, in Italian. During the day, Manuel runs a tobacco shop in Modena – the city where he was born and where he lives – where he organises exhibitions of works by local artists.

In 2023, after the conclusion of the tenth edition of Art at the Tobacconist’s, he decided to publish a catalogue of the eight exhibitions that took place in the first six months of the year, followed by a series of photos recalling the journeys he made together with his wife Patrizia, who passed away in 2022.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2024

LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

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LibreOffice Conference 2024 – First batch of videos online!

We’ve uploaded the first batch of videos from the recent LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! (Apologies for the video stutter in a few places – which was beyond our control.)

This is just the beginning, with many more still to come (and PeerTube versions too). So enjoy watching, and click in the top-right to choose videos from the playlist…

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Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! 🎉

Month of LibreOffice banner

Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them.…

LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available – the last release in the 24.2 branch

Berlin, 31 October 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.7, the seventh and final planned minor update to the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, is available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The release includes over 50 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.2.6 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats.…

Interview with Newly Certified LibreOffice Developer Rafael Lima

The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer.

Prof. Lima has been contributing new code to LibreOffice since 2020, and the committee has attested to the quality and value of his contributions to LibreOffice for this certification. We interviewed Prof. Lima, who tells us about the process and what areas of the code he works on.
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