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Community Member Monday: Jackson Cavalcanti Junior

Today we’re talking to Jackson Cavalcanti Junior, who’s active in the LibreOffice documentation community and was recently awarded a custom badge for his work

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am Brazilian, from the city of Olinda, Pernambuco. I am 62 years old, and work as a public servant in

Open Badges for awesome Brazilian Portuguese contributors!

LibreOffice’s documentation team is driven by volunteers around the world. Today, we want to say a special thanks to members of the Brazilian Portuguese community, who’ve worked hard to translate and update user guides.

So we’re sending out Open Badges – special, customised badges with embedded metadata, describing their

LibreOffice flyer for schools and universities: extra design

Our LibreOffice New Generation project aims to bring new – and especially younger – contributors into the LibreOffice community. Earlier in the year, we created a flyer for schools and universities, and we’ve sent out printed versions to many people around the world.

Now, here’s an alternative design, thanks to

Coming up on July 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1

LibreOffice 7.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in mid-August 2021 – see the release notes describing the new features here.

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing a Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate

Behind the scenes: How LibreOffice tutorial videos are made

Harald Berger is a volunteer in our German-speaking LibreOffice community, and over the years has created many tutorial videos for the software. We’re really thankful for his work, and we decided to find out exactly how he goes about creating the videos…

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LibreOffice project monthly recap: June 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…