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 already have a bunch of followers – so thanks to everyone who supports us there 😊
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 into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with open source organisations on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.
And we’re happy to announce that for 2023’s GSoC, LibreOffice is once again taking part!
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!
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, came by the stand and informed themselves or asked about LibreOffice – but also its availability in app stores for all platforms. Other topics that we frequently addressed at the stand included LibreOffice Technology, i.e. subscription versions from ecosystem partners, and their integration, e.g. in document management systems, where we were also able to refer people to the Collabora stand. Overall, it was emphasised again and again that it is important to have the project present at such an event.
Thanks to Thorsten and Lothar for attending! We plan to attend many more events this year – keep an eye on this blog for updates!
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 😊
