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Author: Italo Vignoli
Fundraising, December 3
Consider a donation to LibreOffice to help the project attend events such as FOSDEM and volunteers from all over Europe to participate to the HackFest, staff the booth, and grow LibreOffice certification
Fundraising, December 2
Consider a donation to support activities such as HackFests and other events organized by native language projects, to grow the community and educate about free open source software
Fundraising, December 1st
Consider a donation to support activities such as the LibreItalia Conference and other events organized by native language communities https://www.libreoffice.org/donate
The Municipality of Tirana moves to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice
Berlin, November 22, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that the Municipality of Tirana, the biggest in Albania, is moving to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice. The project is a further step in a large deployment of open source technologies in the city’s IT infrastructure, and follows the successful migration to Nextcloud.
The migration to LibreOffice is managed by the ICT Department, which has been following an open source approach when implementing many IT solutions, based on the strong belief that public IT infrastructure should use free and open source technologies (https://publiccode.eu). Thanks to LibreOffice, documents can now be exchanged and stored in the ISO standard Open Document Format, managed by OASIS, which represents the best solution to avoid proprietary lock-in.
Ermir Puka, the head of the ICT Department, believes that despite the resistance to change and the other big challenges facing the migration, using free and open source software and platforms like LibreOffice – supporting open standards – will guide the IT infrastructure of the municipality in the best interest of the citizens of Tirana.
The migration project has started with the HR Department, where most tasks are based on documents and spreadsheets. This has helped to identify many different issues during and after the migration, and has helped the process in other offices of the Municipality. The majority of the 1,000 desktops in the Municipality of Tirana have already been migrated to LibreOffice.
To further ease the migration, LibreOffice Writer and Calc manuals have been translated into Albanian, while the IT staff is working at an online learning course deployed on Moodle, the e-learning platform used by the Municipality. Activities are enthusiastically assisted by the local open source community, which gathers around Open Labs.
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0.7 and LibreOffice 6.1.3: all users are invited to update for improved robustness and security
Berlin, November 5, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 6.0.7 and LibreOffice 6.1.3, which improve the quality and stability of previous releases, and integrate a security patch.
All LibreOffice users are therefore strongly recommended to update to the new versions:
- Power users, early adopters and technology enthusiasts should update from LibreOffice 6.1.2 to LibreOffice 6.1.3, which represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open source office suites;
- All other individual users and organizations of any size should update from any previous version of LibreOffice to LibreOffice 6.0.7, which is more mature and as such targeted at production environments and enterprise-class deployments.
Organizations should source LibreOffice 6.0.7 from one of the companies providing a Long Term Supported version of the suite, for additional value-added services which make the software better suited to enterprise deployments, thanks to professional support (the companies are all members of TDF’s Advisory Board, and are listed here: https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/). When it is sourced from The Document Foundation, LibreOffice is supported by volunteers.
Also, value-added services for migrations and trainings, to support enterprise-class deployments in large organizations, should be sourced from certified professionals (a list is available here: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/).
LibreOffice is deployed by large organizations in every continent. A list of some large or significant migrations announced in the media is available on the TDF wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations.
LibreOffice 6.0.7 bug and regression fixes are described here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.0.7/RC1 (fixed in RC1), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.0.7/RC2 (fixed in RC2) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.0.7/RC3 (fixed in RC3), while LibreOffice 6.1.3 bug and regression fixes are described here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.1.3/RC1 (fixed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.1.3/RC2 (fixed in RC2).
Download LibreOffice
LibreOffice 6.0.7 and LibreOffice 6.1.3 are immediately available from the following link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Builds of the LibreOffice Online source code can be downloaded as Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/.
LibreOffice Online is fundamentally a server service, and should be installed and configured by adding cloud storage and an SSL certificate. It might be considered an enabling technology for the cloud services offered by ISPs or the private cloud of enterprises and large organizations.
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate. Donations help TDF to maintain its infrastructure, share knowledge, and fund the presence of volunteers at events, where they can meet with other free software advocates.
LibreOffice 6.0.7 and LibreOffice 6.1.3 are built with document conversion libraries developed and maintained by the Document Liberation Project (DLP): https://www.documentliberation.org. Several of these libraries have been adopted by other software projects to provide an escape path from proprietary document lock-in.