Community Member Monday: Cathy Crumbley

At our recent LibreOffice Conference in Tirana, Albania, we invited community members across the globe to join us. Cathy Crumbley from Massachusetts, USA, has recently been involved in the documentation project, and flew over to meet us. Here’s what she had to say:


Tirana on the Move

I was surprised and grateful to be invited to attend the conference in Tirana.…

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The Municipality of Tirana moves to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice

Berlin, November 22, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that the Municipality of Tirana, the biggest in Albania, is moving to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice. The project is a further step in a large deployment of open source technologies in the city’s IT infrastructure, and follows the successful migration to Nextcloud.…

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Quick report: LibreOffice 6.2 Bug Hunting Session in Ankara, Turkey

Our community is working on LibreOffice 6.2, which is due to be released in early February 2019! While developers are adding new features, other community members are helping to test them, in the form of Bug Hunting Sessions. You can learn more about these on our Quality Assurance blog, and in the meantime, here’s a quick report from an in-person session in Ankara, Turkey…

Here’s what Muhammet Kara, who helped to organise the event, had to say:

Eight people (including one remotely from Istanbul) participated in our live session in Ankara, and we tested LibreOffice 6.2 Alpha on Linux, Windows and macOS.

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