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Celebrating International Volunteer Day

Today is International Volunteer Day. All around the world, volunteers give their time and energy to help many different causes – including free and open source software projects like LibreOffice.

Indeed, LibreOffice wouldn’t be where it is today, without the incredibly valuable help of hundreds of volunteers in the last decade. So to everyone who

Month of LibreOffice, November 2019: The winners!

At the beginning of November, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs throughout the month? Check it out…

Congratulations to everyone who’s on that page – and thanks so much for your contributions. It’s

LibreOffice monthly recap: November 2019

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

Local event update: LibreOffice at OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria

LibreOffice community members attend many events around the world to spread the word about the software, encourage people to get involved, and have fun! We’re really grateful for all their efforts. On November 2 and 3, the OpenFest 2019 took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Gabriele Ponzo was there. Here’s

LibreOffice Conference 2019: Lightning talks

Towards the end of the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain, we had a series of “lightning talks” – that is, quick presentations on various topics. Here’s the video, skip ahead for:

  • 00:03 – Unicode in 5 minutes (Ivan Sanchez Ortega)
  • 08:10 – Archiving important wiki content (Dennis Roczek)
  • 16:05 –

LibreOffice Macro Team: progress report

Macros help users to automate common tasks in LibreOffice, and in September, we announced a new team in our community to work on macro support.

So, what has happened in the meantime? This article is a collection of the work done by the LibreOffice Macro Team in the past