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 doing awesome things together!
LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages thanks to the great work of our localisation communities. And there’s always room for more! Recently, one LibreOffice user offered to translate into Saraiki, so let’s hear from him, to learn a bit more about the language:
Hello! I am Parvez Qadir, a native of Pakistan, and a Saraiki language translator in WordPress, Mozilla and other projects. I’m also an admin on the Saraiki Wikipedia and Saraiki Wiktionary.
Saraiki is a common language in the central region of Pakistan, and the number of speakers is 30 million. Millions of Saraiki people migrated to India in 1947, in the partition of India.
Thanks to Parvez for getting this translation project started! Everyone who knows Saraiki is welcome to join our localisation mailing list and drop us a line – we’d love to hear from you 😊
A quick look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 7.5, which we announced yesterday!
(Click here to see this video on PeerTube.)
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Thanks to Nugroho Dwi Hartawan, Rania Amina and Ahmad Haris for the video. Original audio track: KOBT025 – Backing Track by Korochin Music JP.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
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FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects. After two years of online events due to the pandemic, it’s back in-person, in Brussels on February 4 and 5!
And, of course, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation will be there. Our stand will be in in K level 1 (group C). We also have the LibreOffice Technology devroom on the first day, packed with talks and presentations.
Here at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice community, we have many websites and services: this blog, the LibreOffice website, our wiki, the extensions website, Weblate and many more.
To improve them and keep them up-to-date, TDF now has a new Web Technology Engineer! So let’s get to know him…
My name is Juan José and I am from México. I moved from my beautiful hometown to Guadalajara nearly thirteen years ago looking for a good job as a developer and I fell in love with the city. In Guadalajara I met my wife, my friends and many free software enthusiasts.
Since the first day, I realized that there were local communities around free software so I like to keep in contact with them, and contribute with technical talks about various topics.
I studied a masters degree in Computer Science, where I got interested in the semantic web and the automated reasoning discipline behind it. I’ve been working as a web developer for more than a decade now.
I am so happy that I found this position at The Document Foundation – I am determined to contribute as much as I can to improve our existing web sites and web apps that support the foundation’s efforts.
I used LibreOffice to write the final project of my bachelor degree, I can say that LibreOffice was the first application for what I consider myself a power user (that was 10 years ago – but I have lost most of my talents sadly). I also remember writing an essay about the importance of open document formats, and my references included many people from the LibreOffice community.
This role marks my first time actively contributing to LibreOffice – so I hope I can help the project significantly.
I joined the Foundation as the new Web Technology Engineer, where I will dedicate my time to support, fix and improve the experience of our websites.
I believe it’s a great role since the web has become the default entry point to all people that want to interact with LibreOffice, from being an end-user, to collaborate on the software’s development. I have adopted the mission to facilitate this interaction.
I am starting on the extensions site – it’s the place where you can get templates and extensions for LibreOffice. I am replying to reported issues by improving the web experience. I also want to keep an eye on the experience of the end user, taking care of both ends: extension developers and the users.
We’re really happy to have Juan José on board! LibreOffice users and community members can give him feedback and help via the website mailing list. Looking forward to seeing all the great things to come 😊
