02 Oct 2019
LibreOffice monthly recap: September 2019
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
- The biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2019 which took place in Almeria, Spain. Over 100 people from across the globe met up to discuss current developments in LibreOffice, make plans for the future, and have fun. Here’s our group photo:
- We also made a short video recap of the conference – check it out!
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- Furthermore, we’ve started uploading presentations from the conference. Here’s a playlist, starting with the opening session; use the icon at the top to switch to other videos:
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- But plenty more was happening in the LibreOffice community, outside of the conference! For instance, a group of developers teamed up to improve PPT/PPTX (PowerPoint) file support. They will work together on code reviews and bug reports.
- In addition, a new macro team was created to improve LibreOffice’s macro support. They will work together with the QA community.
- Over in Uganda, Emmanuel Semutenga is helping young people in Kampala to improve their IT skills – using LibreOffice and other free software tools. He told us about his experiences and what advice he has for other projects with similar goals.
- During September, The Document Foundation announced three new minor releases of LibreOffice, fixing bugs and improving compatibility.
LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 arrived on September 5, while version 6.3.2 was released on September 26.
- The Nepalese community organised a LibreOffice localisation event on Software Freedom Day 2019. Many people worked together on translating the software’s user interface into the Nepali language. Thanks to everyone who took part!
- Next year’s LibreOffice Conference will be held in Nuremberg, Germany – and it’ll be a joint conference with the openSUSE project. And we need a logo! You can help us to design this logo and win a mystery box at the end… Here are the logos for the 2019 conferences, for inspiration:
- Finally, LibreOffice celebrated its 9th birthday near the end of the month. We’d like to say a huge thanks to all users, supporters, developers and donators who’ve helped to make LibreOffice possible. Here’s to another nine years!
