
Free And Open Source Software (FOSS) Is Gradually Developing Its Commercial Ecosystems In Asia
Author: Kuan-Ting Lin
Translator: Franklin Weng
Foreword: the LibreOffice Asia Conference was successfully held in May 2019 in Tokyo. Kuan-Ting Lin, a university student and civic tech reporter also attended this conference and gives his observations here. In Part
LibreOffice developers love to hack on code – but they also love to meet up, exchange ideas, share information, and enjoy good food! The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 took place on 25 and 26 May, and now the videos from the presentations are online. Check them out – there are 16 videos in total,

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
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Linguistic challenges, women’s participation in FOSS, interoperability, professional training, migration, scripting and much more were hot topics in the conference held at the Facultad Politecnica of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay.
By Daniel A. Rodriguez.
The event started internally on Thursday 18 with a translation sprint of the LibreOffice Guarani team, with the assistance of Olivier
Berlin, July 22, 2019 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has joined the project’s Advisory Board, effective immediately.
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is part of the UK Cabinet Office [1]. It leads the digital transformation of Government

If you’ve seen our LibreOffice contributor map, you’ll note that we have a few community members in north America. (Of course, the map doesn’t show absolutely everyone in the LibreOffice project – just people we’ve interviewed recently.) So we want to grow this community! Marc Paré has set up LibreWaterloo,