LibreOffice is a truly universal office suite – it’s available in over 100 languages, across many operating systems, and it opens a huge range of document formats. But just how many? Check out the short video we made…
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At the start of this month, we kicked off a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions all across the project! So how many stickers have been won so far? Well…
To see if your name (or username) is on the list, click the number above. If you’re not there, there’s still time to get involved! There are many ways you can help the LibreOffice project and claim a sticker:
So don’t miss out! There’s one week to go – help other users, update our documentation, translate the software and help to make LibreOffice better for millions of users around the world!
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LibreOffice 6.1 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August – see the release notes describing the new features here. You can help us to test it, and make it super reliable!
After the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.1, which was held on April 27th 2018, we’re glad to announce the Second Bug Hunting Session on May 28th – this time being held on a Monday.
In order to find, report and triage bugs, the tests during the Second Bug Hunting Session will be performed on the first Beta version of LibreOffice 6.1, which will be available on the pre-releases server on the day of the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be run in parallel with the production version – so you can test without affecting your existing stable installation.
Mentors will be available on May 28th 2018, from 8AM UTC to 8PM UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel: #libreoffice-qa and its Telegram bridge. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Beta release (LibreOffice 6.1.0 Beta1) will be available until the beginning of July.
During the day there will be two dedicated sessions focus on two of the tenders implemented in LibreOffice 6.1: The first to test the improvements on the image handling between 10AM UTC and 12AM UTC, and the second to test the HSQLDB import filter for firebird between 14PM UTC and 16PM UTC.
What happened during the first Bug Hunting Session ?
Since LibreOffice 6.1 Alpha 1 was released on week 17 of 2018, 91 bugs have been reported against Alpha 1 by more than 30 people, of which 26 have been already closed.
In total, 8 of these bugs have been categorized as critical, and 4 already fixed by the development team.
Base and Writer are the components with more reports, both having 18 each.
Many thanks to the top 5 reporters: Drew Jensen, Emil Tanev, Xisco Faulí, Telesto and Pander.
So join us on Monday, and we look forward to – and appreciate – your help!
We are announcing a Revision Sprint Week, starting Monday May 21st and ending on Sunday May 27th to review the contents of all chapters of the Getting Started Guide 6.0.
The task consist of downloading a chapter and review it. Then send it back to documentation at libreoffice dot org when revision is finished.
Volunteers are invited to visit our Wiki page and have a deep reading on the contents.
Please use our communication channels described there to access us for interaction.
Happy Revision Sprint Week!
Donations to The Document Foundation help us to grow our community, maintain our infrastructure, and continue to improve LibreOffice. Here’s a graphic showing some things that donations enabled us to do in 2017…
Berlin, May 17, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announced today that BPM-Conseil, a company focused on open source business intelligence based in Lyon (France), has joined the project’s Advisory Board. BPM-Conseil will develop the integration of LibreOffice with its business intelligence solutions Aklabox and Vanilla, and also create business intelligence related extensions for LibreOffice.
BPM-Conseil is focused both on development of open source business intelligence solutions and on the related consultancy and integration activities. The company has a large roster of clients in France, such as Ministries of Environment, Energy and Sea, Lyon Metropole, Nimes Metropole and City, La Rochelle Agglomeration, Haute and Basse Normandie, the Aveyron Department, and the University of Corsica.
“BPM-Conseil will help LibreOffice to become a viable solution for enterprise business intelligence, not only through the integration of the software with open source solutions such as Vanilla and Aklabox but also with the creation of extensions which add features to Calc to transform it into a tool for sophisticated analysis and reporting”, says Simon Phipps, TDF Director.
“BPM-Conseil is happy to be part of TDF Advisory Board, and become a member of LibreOffice business ecosystem. This will allow us to improve the integration of LibreOffice with our software Aklabox – which is powered by LibreOffice Online – and Vanilla, to create a complete open source business intelligence solution”, says Patrick Beaucamp, Chairman of BPM-Conseil.
TDF Advisory Board’s (AB) primary function is to represent supporters of the project, and to provide the Board of Directors (BoD) with advice, guidance and proposals. In addition, the AB is at the kernel of the LibreOffice ecosystem, and as such is key to the further development of the project.
