04 Nov 2024
LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2024
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 event in October was the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024, which took place in Luxembourg from October 10 – 12! We had talks, workshops, social events and more – as this quick recap video shows (also available on PeerTube):
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- In addition, we’ve started editing and uploading videos from the talks. Here’s the first batch – but there are many more to come, and we’ll put them on PeerTube too. (Apologies for the occasional video stutter in some places.)
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- But there was much more happening in October, like the LibreOffice community joining Software Freedom Day celebrations in Nepal!
- We talked to Ritobroto Mukherjee about the work he’s doing to improve LibreOffice, as part of the Google Summer of Code. He also tells us about his experiences joining our community.
- Then we caught up with Jonathan Clark, who recently joined the small team at The Document Foundation to work on improving LibreOffice’s language support, especially for RTL / CTL / CJK.
- On the release side, we had one update to LibreOffice in October – version 24.2.7, planned to be the last in the 24.2 branch. Then all users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the latest stable branch, LibreOffice 24.8.
- Did you know that TDF has a certification program for LibreOffice developers and migrators? Rafael Lima told us about his experiences becoming a new certified developer, and what the requirements are.
- And finally, we looked ahead to some upcoming and future events. The LibreOffice project will be at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels at the start of February, for instance. And thinking further ahead: we’re looking for people to host the LibreOffice Conference 2025!