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Outcome and conclusions of the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress

Gustavo Pacheco send us this report on the activities of the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9, 2025:


Official photo Cibersociedad 2025 + Latin American LibreOffice Congress

With a completely different organizational model than

Coming up: LibreOffice event in Nepal

Look! Our Nepalese community is preparing a very cool LibreOffice event for early December. More details to come – stay tuned to this blog 😉

Picture of community members at LibreOffice event in Nepal, and the sentence: Dots that are connecting free communities

LibreOffice 64-bit progress, and support for Amazon Linux 2023

CPU on a motherboard

LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they should work on as many distributions as possible.

To

LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2025

LibreOffice Conference 2025 merchandise

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary. We had talks, workshops, fun social events and

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 – Accessibility in Free and Open Source Software

LibreOffice strives to be accessible for people with special needs or limitations, such as visual impairment or limited motor abilities. How does the software work towards this? What accessibility features are in the pipeline? And how can all users help out? We talk to Michael Weghorn about these topics – and more. (This episode

Austria’s military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice

Logo of Bundesheer

Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.

As Heise reports, the main reasons behind the switch are to:

  • strengthen digital sovereignty
  • maintain independence of IT infrastructure
  • ensure that