The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Yesterday, we posted a video from the second session and now we have recording of the third session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
The election for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is running, and we have live Q+A sessions with the candidates. Here’s a recording of the second session (PeerTube version coming soon too) – timestamps for specific topics:
A quick news update from Germany: the upcoming coalition government endorses free and open source software. In the coalition agreement (German), there are some key sentences on this topic, for instance:
Development contracts will usually be commissioned as open source, and the corresponding software is generally made public.
Another section states:
In
Zdeněk Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
Our team has finished translating the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.1. As usual, it was a team effort, namely: translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek, Radomír Strnad, Ludmila Chládková; text corrections by Marcela Tomešová, Martin Kasper, Eva Kmochová, Věra Dvořáková; localized pictures by
Today we’re talking to Bayram Çiçek, who’s helping to implement new features in LibreOffice as part of the Google Summer of Code…
I live in Çanakkale, Turkey. I’ve just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
When I was a student, professors
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools.
In doing so, the state wants to reduce its dependence on proprietary software, and eventually end it altogether. By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced