Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…
- We started June by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021! In the end, 406 contributors won sticker packs – making it the most successful ever. And we had some extra merchandise to give away too!
- On June 10, LibreOffice 7.1.4 Community was made available for download, with 80 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Thanks as always to our volunteers and certified developers for their work on it!
- In technology news, The Document Foundation announced and updated three tenders during the month: implement automated ODF filter regression testing, implement master document fixes and implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP. If you have some C++ coding knowledge and experience with LibreOffice’s codebase, take a look.
- In June we also posted some sections from our Annual Report 2020: Documentation Team Activities, Website, blogs and social media and Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice.
- Hossein Nourikhah joined the TDF team as Developer Community Architect. He’ll help to onboard new developers in the project, give them code pointers, and assist them as they add new features. Welcome, Hossein!
- Meanwhile, ODF 1.3 was announced as an OASIS standard. ODF (OpenDocument Format) is the native format of LibreOffice, and is a fully open standard that other productivity tools can implement.
- Later in the month, we chatted to Manuel Frassinetti who told us about his work in the Italian LibreOffice community.
- The LibreOffice Conference 2021 is coming up in September – and you can design the logo for it! Here’s the one from 2020 (the joint conference organised with the openSUSE project) for inspiration…
- LibreOffice’s Japanese community reported from their Kaigi 2021 Online event. Speakers from around Japan (and Asia) talked about their work and projects. Hopefully in-person events will be possible soon!
- Another event took place in June: the online meeting of the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community. Videos of the talks are available on PeerTube.
- Companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem contribute valuable things to the project: new features, bugfixes, and long-term support options for enterprise users. At the end of the month, German company allotropia announced that it has joined TDF’s Advisory Board – it provides services, consulting and products around LibreOffice and related open source projects.
I would just like to say thank you for everyone’s contributions building a terrific program! I used to use MS Office, but personally, I have found it to be very buggy, and I just couldn’t justify paying yearly for it considering that I have found LibreOffice to more than sufficient for all my needs, not to mention that I haven’t run into any issues yet. I wish I could have donated more, but this poor man is living on a string budget as is, which is another reason why I no longer use MS Office.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot for the kind words, John!
I am hoping for someone to help older users to overcome the complexities of the software. Is the term” User friendly ” ring a bell ?
Win 10 updates constantly and I am unable to stop it. It tries to prohibit the LibreOffice files and I can take considerable time to figure out how to keep using the LibreOffice. My desktop changes and files get moved according to someone elses preferences !
I am 81 and am being driven crazy by the smarter than me hackers in the profession of new this & that , gonna help you do magic things, etc., etc., etc. Driving me crazy ! Can’t I have a computer that stays the way I set it ? !&^%_$*&!!
Hi Art, I’m afraid we can’t provide technical support in blog comments (we’re a small non-profit with very limited resources). For all help please see: https://ask.libreoffice.org
thanks very much for engineering this LibreOffice package.
I use it on Linux-OS (MINT, KUBUNTU, Open SUSE) instead of MS-Office since several years and I’m surprised of its facilities.