Here’s the opening session from last week’s LibreOffice Conference 2021!
More sessions to come, plus a playlist and PeerTube alternatives…
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The online LibreOffice Conference 2021 starts tomorrow! Here’s how to take part…
The schedule of the conference is available from here. Time zone is on the upper left: depending on your system settings, it usually is Europe/Berlin time (UTC+2).
There is an app available too – downloads from here:
Talks will be streamed on the website and on YouTube. Links will be made available on the first day of the conference and will be always available on the conference website. Please check the YouTube links regularly, at least once per day, as they might change.
We strongly recommend one of the two streaming above, but you can still join the Jitsi instance as a fallback with these links (to post questions/comments, please use the separate discussion channels below):
For socializing, chatting, seeing each other, and testing their video setup, all registered attendees can now use our “LibOCon Social” room (this room is neither streamed nor recorded).
Note that you are requested to register (if you are not a speaker) here in that case.
If you are not registered already, and if you register during the conference, it might take a while to get processed. And make sure that you are muted when you join and there are no videos active on your side.
Note: The current Jitsi version does NOT work with Safari on macOS at all. Firefox and Chrome work without problems. The Jitsi app for Android and iOS will likely not work with the Jitsi instance. We strongly recommend participating from a desktop device, or use one of the other mobile-compatible streaming facilities above (website, YouTube)
If you want to ask questions to the speakers, you can do so via Matix, IRC and Telegram. The 3 channels are bridged together, so you only need to join your preferred one:
The moderator of the talk will read your questions to the speaker and they will answer in the stream. Do not ask your questions on the Jitsi chat.
There are two more channels at your disposal: we will publish all announcements on the two Telegram groups: LibreOffice Virtual Conference Announcements and LibreOffice Virtual Conference. On IRC, the general channel is here, while on Matrix it is here.
If you want to support the conference by purchasing LibreOffice Conference swag from Freewear, you can do so from this page.
Our Code of Conduct applies during the virtual conference too.
Zdeněk Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
The Czech team has finished translating the Impress Guide 7.0. As usual, it was a team effort, namely:
Translations by Zdeněk Crhonek, Radomír Strnad, Petr Kuběj, Vendula Crhonková; text corrections Petr Valach, Ludmila Klatovská, Martin Kasper, Marcela Tomešová; localized pictures Roman Roman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!
The Czech translation of the Impress Guide 7.0 is available for download here.
The team continue with translations of the Draw Guide and Base Guide. We always looking for new translators. Join us!
Many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their awesome work!
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
Regina Henschel writes…
Teachers of mathematics often need a parabola in their instructions or exercises. Creating a parabola by using a chart is cumbersome. Therefore I have generated some parabolas as custom shape for anyone to use. You can get them in this LibreOffice Writer document.
The parabola-shapes are contained in a document. You can copy and paste a shape from there to your document or you can drag the shapes into your Gallery. The document contains in addition some explanations how the shapes were generated. You can download the document from the wiki.
I hope you find the shapes useful!
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats…
These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.
The announcement Tweet was viewed almost 45,000 times, and had 418 likes and 187 retweets. We’re also on Mastodon, a FOSS-friendly federated microblogging service: our Mastodon toot had 48 likes and 45 shares. Meanwhile, the Facebook post reached 7,604 people, with 297 reactions and 32 shares.
Our LibreOffice 7.2 New Features video has been popular, with 57 comments and 522 likes. (We also uploaded the video to PeerTube, an open source, decentralized and federated video platform.)
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As always, we posted the announcement on the /r/linux subreddit, where it had 1077 upvotes and 161 comments. We also have our own dedicated /r/libreoffice subreddit – check it out!
A huge thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers, and certified developers, for all their work on this release!
