Author: Mike Saunders

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

• November was a Month of LibreOffice! This is something we do every six months, to say our thanks to everyone who contributes to the project – and encourage others to join in. 307 people won sticker packs – and a few others got some special bonus LibreOffice merchandise 😉

• Throughout the month, we edited and uploaded videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2022. All videos should be on this playlist now, apart from a couple which had problems with the sound:

• Speaking of the conference, attendee (and long-time LibreOffice contributor) Regina Henschel told us her experiences of the event. We’re glad she enjoyed it!

• Early in November, we announced LibreOffice 7.3.7, which is planned as the last release in the 7.3 branch. Users still using this version should start looking at the LibreOffice 7.4 family, now at 7.4.2, which has been extensively tested by millions of users worldwide. And later in the month, we released LibreOffice 7.4.3.

• FOSDEM, the biggest European free software event, is coming up – and the first in-person meeting since 2022. Of course, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation will be there, and we put out a Call for Papers for the LibreOffice Technology devroom. See you there!

• In other event news, the Indonesian LibreOffice community reported back from the Indonesian Linux Conference 2022, where they gave talks. A big thanks to everyone who attended!

• Later in the month, we chatted with Muthuramalingam Krishnan from the Tamil LibreOffice project. If you can speak Tamil, you can give him a hand to grow the community 👍

• Did you know? You can dock colour palettes in many places in LibreOffice Draw. Harald Berger, from the German LibreOffice community, made a video demonstrating this:

• We have a new team member at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice! (That means we’re now 13 people.) Stéphane Guillou joins us as a Quality Assurance Analyst – so we caught up with him, to find out what he’ll be doing.

• Earlier in 2022, together with more than 100 European organisations and companies, The Document Foundation signed the Open Letter about the universal right to install any software on any device. Join us and sign the letter today.

• And last but not least: the LibreOffice Documentation Team announced the immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.4 and Getting Started Guide 7.4. The Impress Guide 7.4 was coordinated by Peter Schofield and revised by Kees Kriek. The guide is available in PDF as well as in ODF formats – and an online version is available in the bookshelf website.

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At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? Check it out…

Awesome work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. We’re hugely thankful for your contributions – and, of course, everyone who’s listed on the wiki page can get a sticker pack, with these stickers and more:

How to claim

If you see your name (or username) on this page, get in touch! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page so that we can check, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you a bunch of stickers for your PC, laptop and other kit.

(Note: your address will only be used to post the stickers, and will be deleted immediately afterwards.) If you contributed to the project in November but you’re not on the wiki page, please let us know what you did, so that we can add you!

There is one more thing…

And we have an extra bonus: nine contributors have also been selected at random to get an extra piece of merchandise – a LibreOffice hoodie, T-shirt, rucksack or snazzy glass mug. Here are the winners (names or usernames) – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

• Aleksandar Popovic
• vibrationoflife
• Benyamin Limanto
• Jürgen Kirsten
• Tarcísio Ladeia de Oliveira
• Omkar Acharekar
• Jaroslav Kratochvil
• Ettore Atalan
• William Friedman

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thanks once again to everyone who took part! Your contributions keep the LibreOffice project strong. We plan to have another Month of LibreOffice next year, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!