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The November 2017 Month of LibreOffice begins!

Six months ago we ran a Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the project – from development and documentation through to QA and translations. And today we’re starting another one! If you use LibreOffice and want to help improve it, you can join our community and get a shiny

LibreOffice Conference attendee report: Brett Cornwall

Brett helps out with TDF’s infrastructure, and joined us at our recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome. Here’s what he had to say about the event – and a couple of photos too!

2017’s LibreOffice conference marked my first visit outside of the United States. I arrived some days before the conference so that I

LibreOffice contributor interview: Franklin Weng

At the recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome, we took the opportunity to meet up and talk to various contributors to the project, like Franklin Weng from Taiwan. Franklin is helping to get LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF) adopted by governments and enterprises. In this interview, he talks about his strategy and experiences.

Coming up next week: A new Month of LibreOffice

Back in May we had a “Month of LibreOffice”, celebrating contributions from the community in development, documentation, QA, translations and other areas. It went really well, with over 300 cool stickers awarded – and recipients added them to their PCs, laptops and even bikes:

So in November,

LibreOffice Conference 2017 in Rome – video wrap-up

This year’s LibreOffice Conference, held from 11 – 13 October, was a great success with over 200 attendees from around the world. Thanks to everyone who took part, and the hard-working organisers! Check out our short video wrap-up of the event:

Coming up on Friday: first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.0 Alpha 1

The LibreOffice community has returned from a great conference in Rome (more on that later this week), and we’re now working eagerly on LibreOffice 6.0, which is due to be released at the end of January 2018. This version will include a large number of new features – and those already implemented