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Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2021!

At the start of November, we revved up 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: 10 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 – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

  • Marcela Tomešová
  • Sabyasachi Bhoi
  • Radish
  • Andrew Pitonyak
  • giors_00
  • Vasudev Narayanan
  • Ezinne
  • GrahamLees
  • psidiumcode
  • Annabelle Wübbelsmann

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 May, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!

TDF Board of Directors election, 2021 – Third live Q+A session video

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:

  • 02:50 – Introduction round
  • 29:20 – LibreOffice documentation
  • 37:30 – Expenses and reimbursements
  • 45:30 – Idea for members voting on technical decisions
  • 1:07:20 – How to attract and retain members
  • 1:19:20 – Projects in schools
  • 1:33:20 – LibreOffice Online, the ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology

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All TDF members should have received an email, with instructions on how to vote – the process ends on Monday, 2021-12-13, 24:00 CET/UTC+1.

TDF Board of Directors election, 2021 – Second live Q+A session video

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:

  • 03:20 – Introduction round
  • 20:25 – LibreOffice and ODF in small/home offices and enterprises
  • 1:01:32 – Documentation, and the ecosystem
  • 1:51:40 – Reaching out to governments and organisations

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The third session will take place this evening at 21:00 UTC – take part via this link and let us know your questions!

German coalition treaty endorses “Public Money, Public Code” principle

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 addition, we secure digital sovereignty, among other things through the right to interoperability and portability, as well as by relying on open standards, open source and European ecosystems, for example in 5G or AI.

We are encouraged to see FOSS being considered by the incoming government, along with other news such as the north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein switching to LibreOffice and free software.

Czech translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.1

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 Roman Toman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all of the team for their work!
The Czech translation of the Draw guide 7.1 is available for download on this page.

Now, the team continues with translations of the Base Guide. We always looking for new translators and correctors. Join us!

Many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their great work! Want to see more documentation in other languages? Give us a hand!

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