Today we’re talking to Ximena Alcaman, who is working on LibreOffice installer improvements as part of the Outreachy programme. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.
Ximena is working alongside Rachael Odetayo on the
You may know that the LibreOffice project has been on Mastodon for a few years – it’s a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter).
Well, now we’ve created an account for The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity coordinating the LibreOffice community! And we
Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.
But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors
LibreOffice 7.5 introduced a new Dark Mode, activated automatically to match your system settings. But many of you asked for a manual switch, so our Design community has implemented it for the next update – LibreOffice 7.5.1, in two weeks!
Follow the Design community’s
Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions. Lothar summarised the event:
It was well attended. Many known contacts, as well as new visitors,
Today is I love Free Software Day, and we at The Document Foundation would like to say a huge thank you to everyone in the LibreOffice community! Whether you’re involved in development, QA, design, translations, marketing, infrastructure or any other projects – we ❤️ your support. Let’s keep