LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers. Recently, Lera Goncharuk, Alex Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov worked on a Russian translation of the getting started guide – click the image below to read it. If you want to help with a translation in your own language, see this page to get started – and thanks for your help!
We’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. First up, “Generating ODF reports on server side” with Jeff Huang:
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Then “How best to migrate to LibreOffice” with Andras Timar:
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“Grow out of nothing” with Wen-Ke Huang:
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“Agile LibreOffice: how not to lead an open source project” with Björn Michaelsen:
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“Recruiting is hard, let’s go shopping” with Ilmari Lauhakangas:
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“TDF’s Membership Committee: how does it work” with Gabriele Ponzo:
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“Handling TDF membership applications with the mcm-script” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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“LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 Tokyo: what we achieved, and what’s next” with Naruhiko Ogasawara, Shinji Enoki and Jun Nogata:
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“Making LibreOffice a lifesaver for dying languages in Asia” with Kuan-Ting Lin and Xiao-Wu Wang:
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And finally, “The challenge of a regional LibreOffice Conference” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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More videos still to come!
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
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The LibreOffice and openSUSE communities will have a joint conference next year in Nuremberg, Germany, and for this special co-conference, we are having a logo competition. The dates of the event are still being finalized, but there are some things we can do beforehand.
A logo is essential for the conference and we want to visualize both communities during this co-conference as LibreOffice will celebrate its 10-year anniversary and openSUSE will celebrate its 15-year anniversary during the conference.
You have seen both the openSUSE Conference logo and LibOCon logo change over the years. For this unique co-conference, we would like to have a unique logo reflecting both communities in one logo.
The competition is open now and ends on January 17, 2020. The organising team will send a “Mystery Box” as an appreciation for the best logo designed. This year, logo will be voted on by the organizers of the conference.
Deadline: 17 January 2020 UTC 13:00
Announcement of winner: 1 February 2020 at FOSDEM
Please submit your design to ddemaio@opensuse.org with the following entries:
The co-conference organizing team will decide on the logos, which is subject to the conditions that the logo meets all the requirements. The final decision will be made by the co-conference organizing team and it may not be the highest scored design.
We look forward to seeing your designs!
(Note: The LibOCon logo competition should not be confused with the LibreOffice 10th anniversary logo contest, which will be announced separately via our blog – stay tuned for more…)
Thanks to our worldwide community, LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages. Volunteers help to translate the software, documentation and website – and on Software Freedom Day, the Nepalese LibreOffice community organised a localisation event. Sanjog Sidgel reports:
Title: LibreOffice L10N, organised by Kathmandu University Open Source Community on Software Freedom Day 2019
Organizer: Kathmandu University Open Source Community, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
Date: September 21st, 2019
Focus: LibreOffice English to Nepali Localization
Hosted by: Sanjog Sigdel & Saroj Dhakal
Duration: 1 hour
Outcome: 14 new volunteers signed up; we presented the guidelines for doing the translations; and together we translated around 376 text strings into the Nepali language in an hour.I would like to give a shout out to Mr. Anil Shrestha, Co-ordinator of Kathmandu University Open Source Community and his working committee, for making this Software Freedom Day 2019 a grand success.
The Document Foundation says a big thanks to Sanjog, Saroj and everyone else for taking part – your efforts are really appreciated! Because of your help, millions of people around the world can benefit from free, open and standardised productivity tools, in many languages. Cheers!
LibreOffice can open documents in many formats, including Microsoft Office files (.docx, .xlxs, .pptx). But it’s native file format is the fully open and standardised OpenDocument Format (ODF). At the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Spain, community members gave presentations about news and updates for ODF. So, here are the first videos from the presentations (use headphones for best audio quality).
Firstly, Marina Latini and Italo Vignoli explain the COSM project – the Community of ODF Specification Maintainers:
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Version 1.3 of the ODF specification is being developed, and Michael Stahl provides some technical background:
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Finally, Svante Schubert introduces the new ODF Toolkit from The Document Foundation:
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Keep checking the blog – and our Twitter and Mastodon accounts – for more videos in the coming days and weeks!
