LibreOffice project and community recap: March 2023

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 started March by announcing the location of the LibreOffice Conference 2023: Bucharest in Romania! It will take place from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23. Join us and register here!

• Throughout the month, we had three updates to LibreOffice – version 7.5.1 on March 2, and version 7.5.2 on March 30. We’re also maintaining the older LibreOffice 7.4 branch, and released 7.4.6 on March 9.

• LibreOffice installer improvements (on Windows) are coming, thanks to Rachael Odetayo, Ximena Alcaman and Outreachy mentors. We talked to Rachael about what she’s working on, and how the installation process will be simplified.

• Data protection and privacy is very important to us – and our users – in the LibreOffice project, so we’re happy to see that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is piloting the use of LibreOffice Technology.

• On March 8, we celebrated International Women’s Day!

• While we’re planning the LibreOffice Conference 2023, as mentioned, we’re also looking further ahead to 2024. If you’d like to host the conference in your location, get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.

• In documentation news, the Czech team translated the LibreOffice Base Guide 7.3 – and had more updates regarding the Bookshelf.

• Members of the German-speaking LibreOffice community met at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage event. They had a booth with merchandise, and answered questions from visitors.

• And there was another meeting, at the LinuxHotel in Essen!

• Finally, we updated our infographic showing how donations to The Document Foundation were used in 2022. Thanks so much to everyone who supported us 😊

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