Today, the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets (https://competitivedigitalmarkets.eu/), a group of more than 50 technology companies from 16 different European countries, sent an open letter to members of the European Parliament to raise awareness about interoperability and to impose stricter rules on big companies – the so-called ‘big tech’ companies – that act as gatekeepers and prevent transparency and openness in digital markets.…
Year: 2021
LibreOffice 7.2.4 Community and LibreOffice 7.1.8 Community available ahead of schedule to provide an important security fix
Berlin, December 6, 2021 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.2.4 Community and LibreOffice 7.1.8 Community to provide a key security fix. Releases are immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/, and all LibreOffice users are recommended to update their installation. Both new version include the fixed NSS 3.73.0 cryptographic library, to solve CVE-2021-43527 (the nss secfix is the only change compared to the previous version).…
Talk at SFCamp 2021: LibreOffice and the community behind it
At the recent online Software Freedom Camp, an event organised by Indian free software supporters, Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation gave a talk about the LibreOffice community. Learn about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and how you can get involved – click the image below to watch it!
TDF Board of Directors election, 2021 – Third live Q+A session video
The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Yesterday, we posted a video from the second session and now we have recording of the third session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
- 02:50 – Introduction round
- 29:20 – LibreOffice documentation
- 37:30 – Expenses and reimbursements
- 45:30 – Idea for members voting on technical decisions
- 1:07:20 – How to attract and retain members
- 1:19:20 – Projects in schools
- 1:33:20 – LibreOffice Online, the ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology
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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers
FOSDEM 2022 will be a virtual event, taking place online on Saturday, February 5, and Sunday, February 6. The LibreOffice DevRoom is scheduled for Sunday, February 6, from 9AM to 7PM (times to be confirmed). If we will get more interesting talk proposals than the maximum number we can fit in one day, we will have the opportunity to extend the DevRoom to Saturday, February 5, in the afternoon.…
TDF Board of Directors election, 2021 – Second live Q+A session video
The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Here’s a recording of the second session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
- 03:20 – Introduction round
- 20:25 – LibreOffice and ODF in small/home offices and enterprises
- 1:01:32 – Documentation, and the ecosystem
- 1:51:40 – Reaching out to governments and organisations
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