LibreOffice project and community recap: November 2024
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- The main theme of November was the Month of LibreOffice, saying thanks for community contributions all across the LibreOffice project – coding, documentation, QA, design and more. At the end of the month we announced the results with 301 contributors eligible to receive sticker packs! Thanks to everyone who took part 😊
- Meanwhile, we started editing and uploading videos from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg. So far there are 35 videos to watch, covering various aspects of the suite and development – with some more still to come! Here’s the playlist:
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- In documentation news, the docs team announced the LibreOffice Writer Guide 24.8, updated for the latest major release of the suite.
- New features are coming to LibreOffice thanks to participants in the Google Summer of Code 2024, including comments in the sidebar, native support for histogram charts and cross-platform .NET bindings for the UNO API.
- In the middle of November, we announced LibreOffice 24.8.3, the third bugfix update to the latest stable branch. All users are recommended to get it.
- We have a new podcast! In episode 1, Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders (both at The Document Foundation) discuss marketing LibreOffice and free software – the challenges and opportunities. (It’s also available on PeerTube.)
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- Then we talked to Moritz Duge who is working on the WebAssembly port of LibreOffice, among other things.
- And finally, we showcased one particular talk from the LibreOffice Conference 2024, which explains how the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein will move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice (and Linux). (This video is also available on PeerTube.)
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