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Happy 6th Birthday, LibreOffice

On September 28, 2010, LibreOffice was announced with the distribution of this press release:

OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project

The Internet, September 28, 2010 – The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org,

LibreOffice wins Bossie Awards 2016

bos16-libreoffice-100683495-origEvery year, InfoWorld editors and contributors pick the top open source software for data centers, clouds, developers, big data analysts, and IT pros. LibreOffice has been selected amongst InfoWorld’s top picks in open source business

Official Results of the 2016 Membership Committee Elections

noun_545315_ccThe board declares the following Members of The Document Foundation elected into the Membership Committee:

  • Katarína Behrens
  • Cor Nouws (tied for first with Katarína)
  • Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco
  • Gabriele Ponzo
  • Miklos Vajna

The board declares the following Members of The Document

Prototypefund: an opportunity for German freelance developers

The Document Foundation is happy to share with the community the opportunity represented by Prototypefund (http://codefor.de/blog/prototype-fund), an excellent project for freelance developers based in Germany.

TDF Board of Directors encourages all hackers with the necessary credentials and interested in improving either LibreOffice or the Document Liberation Project to apply for the fund. Approved projects will

Pictures of LibreOffice Conference in Brno

A selection of LibreOffice Conference in Brno has been published here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/pictures/.

Community conference starts with 10th release of LibreOffice in 2016

downloadBrno, September 7, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) has celebrated the opening session of LibOCon with the announcement of LibreOffice 5.2.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family.

LibOCon is a showcase of the project activity, and will feature over 60 talks in