October 2012 - TDF Community Blog

Searching for infrastructure sponsors

2012-10-31

One of the most valueable assets of The Document Foundation, the charitable entity behind LibreOffice, clearly is its infrastructure. It provides the grounds where the community develops, markets, designs, improves and offers its free office suite for download.

That’s why it comes to no surprise that the infrastructure budget is one of the largest spendings. As of today, we spend about 700 € per month on infrastructure, which is more than 50% of our regular monthly operations budget – quite a lot for a foundation of our size.…

Register for the Hackfest in Munich

2012-10-29

Soon, we will have the LibreOffice Hackfest in the city of Munich, from November 23 to 25. In order to help us with planning, please don’t forget to register for participation in our wiki at

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Munich2012#Participants

Looking forward to meeting you in Munich!

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Send us your LibOCon pictures!

2012-10-21

We would like to publish a collection of images from the LibreOffice Conference 2012. Lots of people at the venue made photos, and we invite you to share them with us. 🙂

You can upload them at

http://conference.libreoffice.org/upload

Here’s how to do that:

Please ZIP them,
put a file with your name
as well as the image license into the archive.

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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.7

2012-10-18

Berlin, October 18, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.7, the seventh and possibly last version of the free office suite’s 3.5 family, which solves additional bugs and regressions, and offers stability improvements over LibreOffice 3.5.6.

The Document Foundation suggests all users to upgrade from previous versions to LibreOffice 3.5.7.

LibreOffice 3.5.7 is available for immediate download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.…

Conference Announcements

2012-10-17

LibreOffice Conference opens in Berlin

LibreOffice Conference, Berlin, October 17, 2012 – Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board of The Document Foundation, has officially opened the 2nd LibreOffice Conference (http://conference.libreoffice.org) addressing the authorities and the community members gathered in the capital city of Germany from the five continents.

“As of today, LibreOffice is being used by close to 60 million people.…

LibreOffice Conference: Streaming

2012-10-16

LibreOffice Conference live session streaming will be available from http://conference.libreoffice.org/streams, starting from tomorrow at 10AM (CEST, or UTC+2).

There will be 3 live video streams of the talks and presentations:

Stream 1 from the Aula (Wednesday through Friday),
Stream 2 from the Eichensaal (Wednesday and Thursday) or the Hörsaal (Friday), respectively,
Stream 3 from the Konferenzraum 2 (Wednesday through Friday).

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