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Passbolt supporting the LibreOffice Conference 2024

LibreOffice Conference 2024 logo

Our LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is taking place next week in Luxembourg, and one of the sponsors is Passbolt S.A., which makes an open source password manager. Kevin Muller, the company’s CEO, says:

We are excited to participate in the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference, where I will be speaking about the pivotal role open source has played in Passbolt’s commercial success.

Passbolt has been 100% open source from day one—and it always will be. This approach has given us a significant competitive edge, driving market adoption and commercialization from the outset. Compared to many competitors Passbolt’s open source philosophy offers unmatched transparency and control.

In today’s world, where nations are increasingly focused on reclaiming their digital sovereignty, the transparency and trust fostered by open source software are more critical than ever.

Kevin is giving a talk on the opening day, so check it out!

Luxembourg Ministry for Digitalisation contributing to the LibreOffice Conference 2024

LibreOffice Conference 2024 logo

Our LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is taking place in a few weeks in Luxembourg, and the country’s Ministry for Digitalisation wrote to tell us:

We are pleased to contribute to the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference with a speech by Luxembourg’s Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin and a presentation of Luxchat4Gov by project manager, Patrick Weber.

The secure and interoperable instant messaging dedicated to the public sector, Luxchat4Gov was developed by the Ministry for Digitalisation in collaboration with LU-CIX and leverages the Matrix protocol to ensure seamless interoperability between systems, while maintaining stringent data security. In parallel, LU-CIX and its partners build LuxChat, the public version of LuxChat4Gov to offer the same level of security and digital autonomy.

By adopting this platform, Luxembourg sets a precedent for achieving digital autonomy while fostering an interconnected and secure communication environment across government entities, and the national Luxchat ecosystem. This is just the first effort to assert Luxembourg’s Digital Sovereignty, through using open-source software which has been tailored to fit the country’s specific needs and that is now operating under Luxembourgish jurisdiction. It’s only by having full control on the open-source software and by hosting it in national data centers that a high level of security and confidentiality of the data can ensured.

We’re very happy to have their participation!

Click here to register for the conference

Join the LibreOffice Development Workshop at our upcoming conference!

LibreOffice Conference 2024 logo

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.)

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