Berlin, October 20, 2015 – The LibreOffice community is working on the next major release – planned for early February – with a bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 days, from October 30 to November 1, 2015, and check the first alpha of LibreOffice 5.1.…
Year: 2015
Announcement elections for the Board of Directors
Cor Nouws, Chairman of TDF’s Membership Committee, announced the following today:
Dear Community,
We hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.
As per § 7 II of our statues, [1] the Board’s term lasts two years. The current board started its duty on February 18, 2014.…
LibreOffice Conference 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic)
Berlin, October 12, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces that the next LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology @ Brno University of Technology (http://www.fit.vutbr.cz ) and jointly organized with OpenAlt (https://openalt.org) and Red Hat Czech (http://cz.redhat.com), from September 7 to September 9, 2016.…
The Document Foundation welcomes RusBITech in the project Advisory Board
The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that RusBITech, a large Russian software development company focusing on open source software, has joined the Advisory Board.
RusBITech is a Research and Production Association (RPA) which develops and supports the Astra Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, targeted to the Russian public administration. LibreOffice is included in Astra Linux, and is one of the main applications for the users of the operating system.…
Tender for design and implementation of “All about LibreOffice” community and developer dashboard (#201510-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
design and implement an “All about LibreOffice” community and developer dashboard
to start work as soon as possible.
TDF wants to invest in a webpage showing latest activity, summaries and trends of the LibreOffice project in all areas, like development, QA, user-to-user support and other key areas of the project.…
Five years of LibreOffice
LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community project leaders. At the time it was a brave – although necessary – decision, because it was rather clear to everyone that OpenOffice.org was not going to survive for a long time under Oracle stewardship.…