On August 8, we announced LibreOffice 6.1, a new version of the suite with many great features and updates created by our worldwide community. Let’s look at some stats from the last week!
373,758 downloads
These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – some Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories. And we still offer the LibreOffice 6.0 branch which is especially suited to enterprise deployments.
274,916 visits to our website
Our main website is the central resource for all things LibreOffice, including downloads, release notes, help, community support and more.
192,232 visits to our blog
Most of these were for the release announcement, but we’ve been posting other updates as well. On a related note, if you want to follow blog posts by other members of the LibreOffice community, check out the TDF Planet.
18,738 views of our New Features video
We made a video highlighting the new features in LibreOffice 6.1, with an awesome introduction created by our Taiwanese community. This video was embedded into various news websites that covered the release.
21,347 impressions of the announcement tweet
We use Twitter to spread the word about LibreOffice, free software and open standards, so a big thanks to our supporters who retweeted the announcement. It had 197 retweets and 269 likes.
Over 32,000 views of our Reddit “Ask us Anything”
One day after the release, team and board members from The Document Foundation, along with some community members, organised an “Ask us Anything” session on the /r/linux subreddit. This was an opportunity for free software and GNU/Linux fans to ask us all about the new release, and indeed anything else about LibreOffice. We had 205 comments and 312 upvotes.
But there’s more to come!
A huge thanks to our community for making LibreOffice 6.1 happen! But we’re not done yet; we’re already busy adding new features and updates to LibreOffice 6.2, which is due for release early next year – and you can help out! Whether it’s with design, marketing, documentation, coding or translations, you can get involved, join our friendly community and make a big difference to LibreOffice. Come join us!
Hey Folks.I’m a researcher trying to understand the Open Communities effort in the software development. By analysing the github commits I’ve identified 1652 accounts (people) actively contributing code to LibreOffice. At the same time the list of members listed here https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/members/ is much smaller??
Hi Tad! The page you listed shows members – more formally known as the “Board of Trustees” – of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. Members are people who are active in and committed to the LibreOffice project, from across the globe, who contribute time, effort and skills, whether on a voluntary or paid basis. Many of them are not code developers; rather they work on marketing, translations, design, advocacy and other topics.
There is some overlap between developers and TDF members, of course, but they are two distinct groups. Some people submit code but aren’t TDF members. Anyone who is active in the project can apply to become a member: https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/why-be-a-member/
If you have any other questions, just drop me a line: mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org
Cheers,
Mike