Berlin, April 6, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) releases LibreOffice 5.3.2, the 2nd minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family, focused on bleeding edge features, and as such targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters, and power users. LibreOffice 5.3.2 integrates over 50 patches, with a large number of fixes related to RTF and DOCX documents.…
Author: Italo Vignoli
Visit of the Univention Summit 2017
The Document Foundation has enabled us to visit the Univention Summit in Bremen, so here is our report
Univention’s primary product is the Univention Corporate Server (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univention_Corporate_Server#App_Center). UCS combines various free software applications into a comprehensive server platform based on Debian GNU/Linux.
The goal of the summit was networking in the field of open source software and, of course, to popularize UCS.…
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.3.1
Berlin, March 16, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice 5.3.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family released in early February, with 100 bugs or regressions fixed against the previous version.
LibreOffice 5.3.1 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users, as it is focused on bleeding edge features.…
Job Search for a Development Mentor
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be:
a Development Mentor
to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following:
- Self-starting, remote working experience
- Experience contributing to FLOSS communities
- C++ or LibreOffice coding experience
- Excellent communication skills
The role is a for a minimum of 10 hours per week, and includes amongst other items:
Supporting existing mentors in the LibreOffice community including:
- Building relationships between existing mentors and new contributors
- Identifying and onboarding new contributors
- Affirming and encouraging their contribution
- Building initial relationships with them
- Encouraging them to join IRC to meet the team
- Introducing them to domain experts for deeper learning
- Helping to educate new contributors by
- Positively reviewing their code contributions
- Introducing them to our tooling & culture
- Attracting new contributors by promoting the project
Previous experience with such tasks is highly welcome, so is using free software.…
Announcement of LibreOffice 5.2.6
Berlin, March 9, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.2.6, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family, targeted to enterprises and individual users in production environments.
TDF suggests to deploy LibreOffice in large organisations, public administrations and enterprises with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/…
International Women’s Day: #BeBoldForChange
March 8 is the International Women’s Day. The theme for 2017 is #BeBoldForChange.
Amongst the members of The Document Foundation there are only 19 women (10% of the total number): Belinda Dibra (Albania), Christina Roßmanith (Germany), Chrystina Pelizer (Brasil), Eliane Domingos de Sousa (Brasil), Ellen Pape (Germany), Emma Pietrafesa (Italy), Gülşah Köse (Turkey), Irmhild Rogalla (Germany), Jean Hollis Weber (Australia), Jona Azizaj (Albania), Katarina Behrens (Czech Republic,), Marina Latini (Italy), Priyanka Gaikwad (India), Regina Henschel (Germany), Rosemary Sebastian (India), Sigrid Carrera (Germany), Sonia Montegiove (Italy), Sophie Gautier (France) and Vinaya Mandke (India).…