11 Jan 2018

Wednesday Community #1

Posted in Community By Italo Vignoli On January 11, 2018

Our global community of volunteers, represented by The Document Foundation and based on many independent native language projects, is one of the main strengths of LibreOffice. Starting from today, we launch a new weekly blog post – scheduled on Wednesday – focused on community activities: events, seminars, conferences, projects with schools and central or local government bodies, achievements, etcetera. We want to show the world how diverse and inclusive is our community, and at the same time we want our community members to be proud of being part of it.

One of the largest and strongest LibreOffice communities is based in Indonesia. From March 23 to March 25, 2018, they will organize their first LibreOffice Conference Indonesia in Surabaya: 3 days of meetings based on Workshops, Seminars, Discussions about The Document Foundation, and gathering of LibreOffice advocates and activists. The event is also intended to be a form of thanks to LibreOffice developers who have provided the outstanding free software solution.

LibreOffice Conference Indonesia will be hosted by the Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya. The event will start on March 23 with a workshop focused on testing LibreOffice builds and localizations, and will follow on March 24 with a full day of seminars on everything LibreOffice, from an introduction to LibreOffice 6.0 to success stories and technical talks. The last day, March 25, will be dedicated to the meeting of LibreOffice Indonesian community members. Call for Papers is already open, and will close on February 8, 2018.

Comments

  1. By Roland

    I am trying to do a genealogy picture project. I have many family pictures. Some pictures have several people in them. I would like to have a picture, then copy it below the first picture, and, on the second picture, have numbered circles over the people and then be able to type, below the picture, who that person is. . . . Which LO suite would I use: Draw? or Impress?

    Any help will be appreciated. “Thank You”

  2. By Roland

    I have had Libre Office on my Windows 7, and now Windows 10, computer for a couple years. It has worked OK with Windows.

    Does it work OK on an Apple iPad?

  3. By Óvári

    To complement Indonesian LibreOffice software, could a personal information manager (PIM) be added to the “Call for Papers”.

    Mozilla Thunderbird (email) + Lightning add-on (calendar) + CardBook add-on (Contacts) = PIM.
    https://www.mozilla.org/id/thunderbird/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/id/thunderbird/addon/lightning/
    https://addons.mozilla.org/id/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/

    Feature Comparison: Mozilla Thunderbird – Microsoft Outlook
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Mozilla_Thunderbird_-_Microsoft_Outlook

    What do you think?

    Thank you