LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2024

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

  • The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 24.8. This is our latest major stable branch – and the second to use the “year.month” version number scheme. It has a ton of new features, improvements and fixes, some of which are shown in this short video (PeerTube version here):

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  • In other conference news, we announced that the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre is co-organising it. This is an Economic Interest Grouping gathering the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), created to support national activities related to digital learning and to operate service and innovation platforms.


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  • Next, we spoke to Khushi Gautam who is currently working on fixing bugs in her LibreOffice Outreachy project, “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find”, alongside Google Summer of Code students to make further progress.

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  • The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes. An election for a new MC is coming up, and in August we ran three live “townhall” Q+A sessions with the candidates. Recordings from two of them are online (PeerTube versions here and here):

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LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 24.8


LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei

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