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23 Apr 2022

Annual Report: LibreOffice Conference 2021

By Mike Saunders
Conference, Foundation, LibreOffice
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The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. This year, it took place online once again.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Normally, the conference takes

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15 Apr 2022

Annual Report: The Document Foundation in 2021

By Mike Saunders
Foundation
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The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. In 2021, we had elections for the foundation’s Board of Directors, along with regular Advisory Board calls, and support for other projects and activities.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full

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12 Apr 2022

Panel Discussion on Mentorship (Fedora Mentor Summit 2022) – including LibreOffice

By Mike Saunders
Community, Marketing
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How do different free and open source software projects do mentorship, and how can we all learn from each other? Daniel Garcia Moreno (EndlessOS Foundation and GNOME), Emily Gonyer (openSUSE), Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation), and Marie Nordin (Fedora) discuss this in a panel moderated by Ben Cotton:

08 Apr 2022

Annual Report 2021: LibreOffice releases and updates

By Mike Saunders
Foundation, LibreOffice, Marketing
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In 2021, LibreOffice celebrated its eleventh birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

The Document Foundation

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01 Apr 2022

LibreOffice project and community recap: March 2022

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

  • We started off March with a custom shape tutorial from Regina Henschel. If you’ve ever tried to draw special and complex shapes beyond the basic offerings
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29 Mar 2022

The Document Foundation supports the “Deutschlandstipendium”

By Mike Saunders
Announcements, Community, Foundation
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In 2019, the German LibreOffice community sadly lost one of its most active members, Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn. In his memory, The Document Foundation (the non-profit foundation behind LibreOffice) has decided to support a student through the Deutschlandstipendium initiative:

With the Deutschlandstipendium, the German government is expanding student funding through a program

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