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LibreOffice on social media: stats for June 2016 – April 2017

To help spread the word about LibreOffice and get feedback from users (and contributors), The Document Foundation operates various social media accounts. Some of these have been running since the start of the project – while others are relatively new. We’ve been collecting statistics about our social media accounts for a while, so let’s share

Video interview: Thorsten Behrens, LibreOffice developer

Thorsten has been involved with LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org before that) for many years. He’s a developer and in The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors (BoD). We talked to him about how the project was born, and what the BoD does.

Month of LibreOffice, May 2017: First week’s results

On May 1st we started a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, to give credit to contributions all across the project. So, after the first week, how is it looking? Well, here’s how many stickers have been awarded so far…

That’s a great start – 121 members of the LibreOffice community who’ll

TDF at MucGov17 BarCamp in Munich

On April 29th, the City of Munich in southern Germany held an event called MucGov17. Subtitled “Digital city – ideas, projects and apps”, it provided an opportunity for people involved with Munich’s IT infrastructure to get together, exchange ideas, and come up with new projects. The Document Foundation (TDF) attended and took part in

Tender to implement HSQLDB binary format import in LibreOffice (#201705-03)

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

implement support for importing HSQLDB binary data

to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement the following:

In order to remove the legacy Java/HSQLDB

Tender to deprecate LibreOffice’s SVG filter in favour of SVGIO (#201705-02)

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

deprecate the SVG filter used by LibreOffice in favor of SVGIO

to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement the following:

  • Remove the old