The LibreOffice community communicates mainly over the internet, using our mailing lists, IRC channels and other services. But it’s often good to meet in person, to discuss ideas face-to-face, tackle problems together, and enjoy good company over food and drinks! And from April 6 – 8, in Hamburg, we did just that…
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13 Apr 2018
Coming up: the Month of LibreOffice, May 2018!
Joining an open source project is awesome, for many reasons. You get to:
- Talk to, meet and share ideas with people around the world
- Build up valuable skills that could be useful in a future career
- Make the world a better place, by improving software for everyone to use
In the case of LibreOffice, you
11 Apr 2018
LibreOffice contributor interview: Edmund Laugasson
LibreOffice is being used in governments and companies around the world, and this is largely thanks to support and advocacy from local communities and developers. Today we’re talking to Edmund Laugasson, a member of the Estonian LibreOffice community, who is promoting the software and the
29 Mar 2018
LibreOffice monthly recap: March 2018
There’s so much going on in the LibreOffice project – in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. So at the end of each month we’ll be posting summaries of recent activities and updates, to help you get an overview of what’s going on.
13 Mar 2018
LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2018 – get involved!
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a yearly programme in which Google funds university students to work on free and open source software projects. LibreOffice has benefited from this – last year 10 students were accepted into GSoC to do various programming jobs, helping to improve the software.
GSoC students
06 Mar 2018
How LibreOffice and TDF are helping other open source projects
Free and open source software (FOSS) is all about sharing and working together. And while LibreOffice focuses on being the best open source office suite, our community also helps out with other related FOSS projects (just like many other projects help us!). We’ve made an infographic showing “upstream” contributions from LibreOffice developers and The Document