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Video tutorials for LibreOffice Writer, Calc and Impress

On the LibreOffice subreddit, we became aware of some useful tutorial videos created by Steven Davids. These cover various components of the suite, and show how to achieve common tasks.

We asked Steven about how he chooses the topics for his videos, and how he makes them:

My

10,000 followers on Mastodon!

The LibreOffice project is on Mastodon, a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter). Specifically, we’ve been on the Fosstodon server since April 2019 – and now we have 10,000 followers! A huge thanks to everyone who supports us there 😊

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The Latin American LibreOffice 2022 Conference was a success!

Female volunteering, interoperability, professional training, migration, Python based macro development and much more were highlighted themes at the event held at the Catholic University of Brasilia in the capital of Brazil.

Daniel A. Rodriguez writes:

The Latin American LibreOffice Conference gathered around 400 people, among them students and IT professionals, and

Membership Committee Election 2022: Q+A sessions with the candidates

The Document Foundation 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.

The election process for a new MC is underway, and we’ve had three live Q+A sessions with the candidates! Check them out in this playlist, using the icon in

Community Member Monday: Jean-Baptiste Faure

Today we’re talking to Jean-Baptiste Faure from the LibreOffice localisation community

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am Jean-Baptiste, living in a small town near Lyon in France.

I retired in 2021, and until then I was working as a researcher in hydroinformatics in a public research institute. I was developing numerical

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2022

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