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Join the LibreOffice Development Workshop at our upcoming conference!

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Hossein Nourikhah, our Developer Community Architect, writes:

Learn LibreOffice development and boost your software skills including bug management, coding, version management using Git, code review using Gerrit and much more! Our workshop titled “Introduction to LibreOffice development” at the LibreOffice Conference 2024 is a great opportunity for all those who love getting involved with a world wide open source community.

Please register soon!

This year, the LibreOffice Conference 2024 will be held in Luxembourg. Alongside the main conference tracks, a development workshop will be held to give the people hands-on experience to LibreOffice development.

The workshop will be held on 11 and 12 October 2024, at the same place as the LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg. If you like to be with us, please register here:

Learn From Experienced LibreOffice Contributors

Many people from The Document Foundation (TDF), the charity behind LibreOffice will present different topics in the workshop. Also, other contributors and also experienced developers from the ecosystem companies will participate.

We are excited to be able to see you in person in Luxembourg to share practical knowledge about LibreOffice and open source development model with you.

Workshop Topics

These are the topics of the workshop. For more information, please refer to the workshop page at the conference website:

Day One: 11 October 2024

Morning:

1. Bug reporting and triaging (1 hour)
Presenter: Xisco Faulí

2. Git Basics (1 hour)
Presenter: Michael Weghorn

3. Gerrit for code reviews (1 hour)
Presenter: Xisco Faulí

4. Introduction to problem solving techniques (30 minutes)
Presenter: Michael Meeks, Collabora Productivity

Afternoon:

5. Building LibreOffice from source code (3 hours)
Presenter: Christian Lohmaier

6. Introduction to LibreOffice Writer Development (1 hour)
Presenter: Miklos Vajna, Collabora Productivity

Day Two: 12 October 2024

Morning:

7. LibreOffice Documentation (1 hour)
Presenter: Olivier Hallot

8. LibreOffice automation via scripting (BASIC, Python) (3 hours)
Presenter: Rafael Lima / Alain Romedenne / Jean-Pierre Ledure

Requirements

The workshop is based on “bring your own device”. For the scripting, you will need a working LibreOffice installation. You will need to install some development tools and libraries to be able to compile LibreOffice from source code.

But, we will be there in-person at the workshop to help you install the requirements step by step!

What Can You Expect?

After successful participation in the workshop, you can gain better understanding the open source development model, bug reporting and triaging, get started with Git and Gerrit, and also build and run your modified LibreOffice from source code. You will also understand the basic structure of the LibreOffice source code, which will help you to start LibreOffice development.

Click here to register

Bring back Free Software funding: Give your feedback to the European Commission

European Commission logo

Free Software (like LibreOffice) is about far more than just zero-cost. It’s about the freedom to use, share and modify the software that we all rely on. Our friends over at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) write:

The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow the EU to control its own technology. Raise your voice and take part in an ongoing consultation to ask for sustainable long-term funds for software freedom.

They provide information on how to participate in the consultation (which closes on 20 September!) so give them a hand.

Click here to learn more and participate

V Latin American LibreOffice Congress – A meeting point for the entire Latin American community

V Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice

Our community in the region writes:

After successful previous events in Paraguay, Brazil and Mexico, the largest event of the LibreOffice project in Latin America arrives in Uruguay.

With the aim of bringing together users and collaborators to promote the dissemination of knowledge and experiences related to LibreOffice, the 2024 edition of the Latin American Congress will be held on December 5 and 6, at Espacio Colabora, in Montevideo.

For the realization of the event, the LibreOffice Project has the support of several local Free Software collectives: Resistencia Programada, Impulso Libre, GNLUG and Undernet.

Guest speakers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and France will present tutorials on the use of the applications and ways to collaborate with the project. The schedule and registration link will be released shortly on the event’s official website.

New “LibreOffice Expert 2024/2025” magazines available for schools and local communities

LibreOffice Expert magazines

Recently, Linux New Media released an updated version of its “LibreOffice Expert” magazine, which contains tutorials, tips and tricks about the office suite. And some articles were contributed by members of the LibreOffice community! The magazines come with DVDs that include LibreOffice for Linux, Windows and macOS, alongside extra templates, extensions, videos and guidebooks.

We have some copies to give away, for schools, universities and local communities. Ideally, we’d like to get these magazines out to places where internet connections aren’t always available – so that the users can really benefit from the DVDs.

So, if you can help us to distribute these magazines, drop us a line! Please note that we can only send a maximum of five copies to any one place, to make sure many people get a chance. When you contact us, please include this information (any requests without cannot be fulfilled):

  1. What you want to do with the magazines
  2. How many you want
  3. The address to which we should post them

Include that information in an email to us and let’s see what we can do!

(Note: if you want to buy the magazine directly from the publisher, you can do so here.)

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2024

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

  • The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 24.8. This is our latest major stable branch – and the second to use the “year.month” version number scheme. It has a ton of new features, improvements and fixes, some of which are shown in this short video (PeerTube version here):

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  • In other conference news, we announced that the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre is co-organising it. This is an Economic Interest Grouping gathering the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), created to support national activities related to digital learning and to operate service and innovation platforms.

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  • Next, we spoke to Khushi Gautam who is currently working on fixing bugs in her LibreOffice Outreachy project, “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find”, alongside Google Summer of Code students to make further progress.

Khushi Gautam

LibreOffice in Microsoft Store

  • The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes. An election for a new MC is coming up, and in August we ran three live “townhall” Q+A sessions with the candidates. Recordings from two of them are online (PeerTube versions here and here):

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LibreOffice stand at FrOSCon 2024

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TDF Membership Committee election 2024 – Second live Q+A session

As announced earlier in the month, we’re running live “Q+A” sessions for candidates in The Document Foundation’s upcoming Membership Committee election. Here’s a recording from the second session (PeerTube version here):

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