The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that RusBITech, a large Russian software development company focusing on open source software, has joined the Advisory Board.
RusBITech is a Research and Production Association (RPA) which develops and supports the Astra Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, targeted to the Russian public administration. LibreOffice is included in Astra Linux, and
LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community
Berlin/Aarhus, September 23, 2015 – The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.0.2 during the opening session of the LibreOffice Conference, to underline the importance of the event for the community. LibreOffice Conference has opened today, and will be closing on Friday, September 25.
The Document Foundation has opened a store for LibreOffice merchandising at Spreadshirt.Net.

We have a few items at the moment, mostly mugs and t-shirts, but we are open to suggestions and new designs.
The LibreOffice community has a wide geographical reach, which is shown on this map, where all countries where there is at least a TDF Member are shown in green.

The LibreOffice community will gather in Aarhus
Now that the summer vacation time is over for many of us, it’s time to have a look at what has been happening behind the scenes with our fantastic native-language community. And indeed – it’s a