Month of LibreOffice, November 2019: The winners!

At the beginning of November, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs throughout the month? Check it out…

Congratulations to everyone who’s on that page – and thanks so much for your contributions. It’s great to see such a passionate community helping to bring powerful, free and open source software to the world.…

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LibreOffice monthly recap: November 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!

  • We got started with the Month of LibreOffice, November 2019. This is a campaign that we run every six months, crediting contributions all across the project. Everyone who helps the LibreOffice community during November can claim a sticker pack, and has a chance to win a cool glass mug.

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LibreOffice Conference 2019: Lightning talks

Towards the end of the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain, we had a series of “lightning talks” – that is, quick presentations on various topics. Here’s the video, skip ahead for:

  • 00:03 – Unicode in 5 minutes (Ivan Sanchez Ortega)
  • 08:10 – Archiving important wiki content (Dennis Roczek)
  • 16:05 – GDB tips and tricks (Ashod Nakashian)
  • 24:19 – How to find bad synonyms in translations (Koji Annoura)
  • 35:06 – Reproducible builds in LibreOffice (Bjoern Michaelsen)
  • 41:08 – Replicating Rapid Prototyper (Michael Meeks)

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Community Member Monday: Sokibi, Indonesia

A story about how Sokibi uses LibreOffice and other FOSS to spread knowledge and love

Authors: Ahmad Haris and Franklin Weng

Sokibi (no last name – it’s a typical Javanese old-style name) was born in a rural village, around 45KM away from Semarang City in Central Java island, Indonesia. He now runs a small store residing in a traditional market, working on repairing computers, selling new and used computers, and provided open source solutions for migrations, support and training.…

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