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LibreOffice Conference registration is now open

Dear Community,

we are proud to announce that the registration for this years’ LibreOffice Conference, taking place in Berlin from October 17th to 19th, including a community day on October 16th, is now open.

In order to help the organizers with their planning, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible, and no later than October 8th. To register, please find all details at

http://conference.libreoffice.org/registration

Looking forward to meeting all of you for an exciting conference in Berlin!

Election of the TDF Membership Committee – List of Candidates

Dear Community,

as previously announced, all members of The Document Foundation are called to vote on a new Membership Committee.

Members of The Document Foundation as of 2012-07-01 are eligible to vote in the elections. The nomination period is now over, and we have received the following candidacies, in order of receipt:

  • David Emmerich Jourdain
  • Sophie Gautier
  • Fridrich Štrba
  • Simon Phipps
  • Leif Lodahl
  • Jean Weber
  • Eike Rathke
  • Cor Nouws
  • Florian Reisinger

If you nominated yourself for elections, or have been nominated by someone else, and are not mentioned in the above list, please get in touch with us as soon as possible at elections@documentfoundation.org

From all candidates, we also need full name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and a description of your reasons for wanting to serve as a committee member. If you didn’t send in any of these so far, please do so as soon as possible to elections@documentfoundation.org

We’ll soon reach out to all of you with further details. As previously announced, the actual election period will start at 2012-09-09 00:00 UTC and end at 2012-09-16 23:59 UTC.

We are looking forward to the elections, and would like to thank you for your work, engagement and dedication for The Document Foundation!

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.1

Berlin, August 29, 2012 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 3.6.1, a new and improved version of the best free office suite ever. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, solving a number of issues and regressions, plus further improving the stability of the program. LibreOffice 3.6.1 is offered in over 100 languages, covering all the countries of Europe and the Americas, and many countries in Africa and Asia/Pacific where it is often the only available native language suite.

LibreOffice 3.6.1 is announced within a month after the 3.6.0 release, which brings lots of new features and functionality: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/

LibreOffice is quickly becoming the de-facto standard for migrations to free office suites, thanks to the growing feature set and the improved interoperability with proprietary software file formats.

News also comes from the Regione Umbria, the first Italian region to recognize and support ODF in 2007, that has just announced a migration project to LibreOffice, which will start in autumn and involve 5,000 desktops in different organizations. The migration project has launched a blog in Italian at http://libreumbria.wordpress.com/

The Câmara Municipal de Vieira do Minho (county of Vieira do Minho) in Portugal has also announced its migration to LibreOffice: http://www.cm-vminho.pt/index.php?oid=9871&op=all

The growing number of adoptions of LibreOffice by private and public enterprises is testament to the improvements brought to the old code by TDF, thanks to over 500 developers and many testers and translators working on exciting new features, stability and quality.

While preparing the next major version, the LibreOffice community continues to work on the current 3.6 series of its software, and has also produced another maintenance release for the previous 3.5 series, to ensure continuity and stability for adopters.

TDF has also just announced a new “HardHacks” project at http://skyfromme.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/announcing-libreoffice-hardhacks/ and will be reporting progress on this on a regular basis.

LibreOffice 3.6.1 is available for immediate download from: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Extensions for LibreOffice are available at: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center

Change logs are available at http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-6-1-release-3.6.1.1.log (fixes in 3.6.1.1) and http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-6-1-release-3.6.1.2.log (fixes in 3.6.1.2).

Your donation helps us to deliver a better product: http://donate.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice Conference 2013 Call for Locations

Once a year, the LibreOffice Community hosts its annual, global community event, the LibreOffice Conference. After a successful Paris event in October 2011, and in the light of the Berlin Conference (October 16th to 19th), the venue for the upcoming year 2013 will be voted on by the community. By starting already now, we want to help the proponents of the 2013 event learn from the organizers of the 2012 event. Traditionally, the LibreOffice Conference takes place between September and November, with a preferred date of October.

The deadline for sending in your proposal is Monday, October 15th 2012, 23:59 UTC.

After receiving the applications, we will evaluate necessary preconditions, evaluate the validity and give applicants the chance to clarify vague details. In November or December, the LibreOffice community will vote on their preferred location, so the organizers have enough time for their preparations. Please do not vote on random locations but rather wait for the official announcement of the proposals and the voting mechanism.

For details on the requirements, and the process, please refer to the wiki page on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/CallforLocation

Again, the deadline is Monday, October 15th 2012, 23:59 UTC.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN HOSTING THE LIBREOFFICE CONFERENCE!

LibreOffice 3.5.6 is available

The Document Foundation is proud to announce that as of today, LibreOffice 3.5.6 is available.

The 3.5 series is currently being maintained in parallel to our newly released version 3.6, and is dedicated to more conservative users. Today’s release fixes a number of bugs, and is the recommended version for all users of the 3.5 series.

LibreOffice 3.5.6 is available for download on various platforms and in many languages at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

Detailed technical change logs are available at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.6/RC1
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.6/RC2

The worldwide LibreOffice Conference will take place in Berlin, Germany, from October 17th to 19th, 2012. It is supported by the German Federal Ministries of the Interior and of Economics and Technology, Details are available at http://conference.libreoffice.org

The Document Foundation welcomes contributions and financial donations to the project: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/donate/

LibreOffice Conference needs you!

The next LibreOffice Conference, the annual gathering of all project members, users and interested parties, takes place in Berlin, Germany, from October 17th to 19th, with an additional community day on the 16th.

We are still looking for lectures and talks from end-users, developers, community members, and everyone else who can contribute something interesting on LibreOffice, The Document Foundation and the OpenDocument format.

The call for papers runs

    including August 15th,
    i.e. next Wednesday

All details on sending in your papers are available at http://conference.libreoffice.org/call-for-paper

Looking forward to your proposals and to meeting you in Berlin!

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