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LibreOffice installer improvements coming, thanks to Ximena Alcaman, Rachael Odetayo and Outreachy

Ximena Alcaman

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

The Document Foundation is now on Mastodon!

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

LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2023!

GSoC logo

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 Dark Mode: Manual switch to enable/disable coming in 7.5.1

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!

Options dialog, showing manual switch

Follow the Design community’s

LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2023

Photo of LibreOffice stand

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,

Love ❤️ for the LibreOffice community

Enio Gemmo

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