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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

Berlin, August 8, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6, the fourth major release of the best free office suite ever, which provides a large number of new features and incremental improvement over the previous versions. Innovations range from invisible features such as improved performance and interoperability to the more visible ones such as

Travel bursaries for LibOCon

This is to inform you about travel bursaries for the LibreOffice Conference.

We are trying to enable as many contributors as possible to join us in Berlin, to meet their community friends, to listen to exciting lectures, and to work on the future of the best free office suite, LibreOffice.

Unfortunately, we are a rather young foundation,

Nominated for People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products

LibreOffice has been nominated in the 2012 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, a feature of The American Business Awards, which are now in their 10th year. Complete information about The American Business Awards is available at www.stevieawards.com/aba

If you want to support us, please vote! 🙂

LibOCon Visa – Don’t forget to apply!

From October 17th to 19th, the LibreOffice Conference takes place in Berlin, Germany, with one additional community meeting day on October 16th.

We would like to remind you of the visa requirements. In a nutshell:

If you want to join the conference,
please check NOW if you need a visa,
and please act

Meeting Richard Stallman

Following his speech the day before at the University of Munich, TDF Chair Florian Effenberger and admin team member Alexander Werner, together with a group of students, had the chance of meeting Richard Stallman. It was a fun day getting input from the President of the Free Software Foundation, who alongside many others, are

LibreOffice 3.5.5 is available

Stability enhancements and bugfixes thanks to a large, diverse and rapidly growing developer community
Improvements in Calc, Impress, font handling and compatibility to third-party formats

Berlin, July 11th, 2012. The Document Foundation today announces the immediate availability of LibreOffice 3.5.5, the current version of the free office suite.

This release fixes a number of bugs and further