LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

• Our biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2022! This was the first in-person conference since 2019, due to the pandemic, and it was a great opportunity to meet face-to-face, share ideas and make plans for the future of our projects. We live-streamed presentations – and will be uploading the videos next week. Stay tuned!

• In other event news, we received a report from the Latin American LibreOffice 2022 Conference which took place in August in Brazil. We’re glad everyone had a great time!

• Meanwhile, we chatted with Jean-Baptiste Faure from the French-speaking LibreOffice community, about his contributions to the project.

• In September, we released two new updates for LibreOffice: 7.3.6 and 7.4.1. All users are recommended to upgrade 👍

• Then, we celebrated reaching 10,000 followers on Mastodon! Our account is kindly hosted by Fosstodon, where many other free and open source software projects are active.

• LibreOffice is, as always, free of charge to download from our website. But now we’re offering it in the Mac App Store for a small price, to cover the costs of placing it there, and helping to fund future development on macOS-specific improvements. So if you want to get regular updates via the App Store and help to fund future development, you can get it there. (But it will remain totally free on the LibreOffice website, as mentioned.)

• Looking for some video tutorials for LibreOffice Writer, Calc and Impress? Steven Davids made some for his YouTube channel, and we chatted with him about the process of creating them.

• Help tocCrowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations! LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations. This project aims to crowdfund the feature.

• Finally, we caught up with a Reddit user working on the Lox365 extension: XLOOKUP (and more) for LibreOffice Calc. Awesome stuff!

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