LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2025 in Prague
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University). It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the LibreOffice community was there, represented by Zdeněk Crhonek, Petr Valach, Stanislav Horáček and Mike Saunders.
At the stand, we had flyers explaining what LibreOffice is and how it can be used in various contexts (homes, businesses etc.) along with stickers, beer/coffee mats, and printed versions of the handbooks, to show how extensive the documentation for LibreOffice really is. We also had a fun quiz for participants to try.
During the two days, many visitors came to our stand, gave feedback and asked questions. Of course, at an event focused on Linux, most visitors already knew what LibreOffice is (and many used it regularly). But they gave us some useful feedback and asked about new features, including:
- Where is the online version of LibreOffice?
- Better clipboard management (normally handled by the operating system)
- More development of Base (TDF has a new paid developer role for this)
- Better options for copying and pasting in Calc
- Real-time collaboration would be good
- Clearer warnings about formatting problems when opening Microsoft Office documents
- Simplify the user interface, using OBS as an example
- Integrate text translator directly into Writer and Calc
- It would be nice to have an optional automatic cloud saving feature
- Make the tabbed user interface default
- Functions in Calc for interpolating and extrapolating values in 2D and 3D tables
Anyone who wants these features or improvements in LibreOffice is welcome to join our project and help to make it happen, or fund a developer. And we plan to be at more events in the coming months – stay tuned to this blog and our Mastodon account for news!
