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Meet the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels!

FOSDEM logo

FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects, and it takes place every year in Brussels at the ULB Solbosch campus. This year it’ll be on 1 and 2 February – and, of course, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation will be there!

localwriter: An optional LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI

localwriter screenshot

LibreOffice is a privacy-oriented office suite that runs on your own computer and doesn’t include AI features out-of-the-box. But we know that many users are interested in combining AI tools with the suite, so we talked to John Balis who is working on a (fully optional!) LibreOffice extension

Czech translation of LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 24.8

Czech LibreOffice Getting Started Guide cover

Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Getting Started guide 24.8. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad; localized pictures from

Hazard: A LibreOffice Impress template to play Jeopardy-like games

Hazard LibreOffice template screenshot

Marcial Machado recently posted on Reddit about his “fully-featured LibreOffice Impress template for creating Jeopardy-style games. Just add your questions and categories, and you’re good to go!” So let’s find out more…

What does the template do?

At its core, the template is meant to emulate what a

24 more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2024!

We’ve finished editing and uploading another batch of videos from our recent conference in Luxembourg. Now the playlist has a total of 51 videos and is almost entirely complete! (There are a couple more that we’re chasing up.)

So, enjoy watching and learning about the technology and community behind the suite. Use the icon in

LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2024 in Prague

LibreOffice booth at LinuxDays 2024 in Prague

Our Czech community provides insights from the LinuxDays 2024 conference, which took place over the weekend of 12 – 13 October in Prague:

At the LibreOffice booth, there was a very large group of people (with a few exceptions) of satisfied LibreOffice users, of