Today is Document Freedom Day, which raises awareness of how open standards and open document formats provide us with the freedom to read and write as we wish:
…Remember when you were sent an important file that your computer couldn’t read properly? Remember having to buy or download a new application just so you could open an attachment that you needed for work?
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech team has finished translating the LibreOffice Writer Guide 24.2. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek. Then Roman Toman contributed localised pictures, and Miloš Šrámek provided technical support. Thanks to everyone in the team for their work!
Today we’re talking to Dione Maddern, who helps out in LibreOffice’s documentation team…
I’m 44. Originally from Brisbane, Australia but I currently live in Baltimore, on the East Coast of the USA. I’ve worked in a variety of administration, document production roles in the engineering and insurance industries.
Most of my technical writing experience has been writing procedures, instructions, and other documentation for Health Safety Environment and Quality (HSEQ) systems.…
The LibreOffice Community Documentation Team is happy to announce the immediate release of the latest Writer and Calc guides for the new LibreOffice 24.2 office suite.
The two books are updates of the respective LibreOffice 7.6 guides, and describe the new features available in LibreOffice 24.2.
Jean Weber and Steve Fanning leaded the update of the Guides and provided valuable inputs to the contents.…
Suraj Bhattarai, our Nepalese LibreOffice Community Liaison, writes:
We shared some positive words around the LibreOffice project, among students of IOE Purwanchal Campus enrolled in CS50x Nepal. The LibreOffice orientation was scheduled for two hours on 21st February, 2024 at the MSC special classroom of the same campus; it was a special session in the CS50x Nepal timeline.…
FOSDEM is the biggest meetup of free and open source software (FOSS) developers in Europe, and takes place every year, in early February, in Brussels. And the LibreOffice project is always there!
We had a stand with merchandise, and community members were present to answer questions, provide information about new features in LibreOffice, and meet people from other FOSS projects.…
