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Youth Hacking 4 Freedom – from the Free Software Foundation Europe


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The Free Software Foundation Europe is starting a new competition:

Are you up to hacking on a software project of your choice? Do you want to meet like-minded people of your age from around Europe? What about getting the chance to receive one of our cash awards and to travel to Brussels to meet the other winners and great people from the Free Software movement? Then join the YH4F competition! The only conditions for you to join are that you are 14-18 years old and you live in Europe. Start by registering before Sunday, 31 October 2021.

There’ll be an online event on Sunday, 10 October at 17:00 CET – see the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom page for more info, and details on registering.

And there’s more: Thorsten Behrens from The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is on the jury. So, if you fill the requirements listed above and want to get hacking on a project, join in!

Check out the new LibreOffice Development Blog!

Here on The Document Foundation’s blog, we post about general news and activities in the LibreOffice world. But now we have a dedicated development blog, set up by Hossein Nourikhah, who recently joined us as a Developer Community Architect.

Click here to view the first post

Hossein and others will post more updates in the coming weeks and months, helping new developers to get started with the LibreOffice codebase, and providing other insights.

Also check out our other blogs: Design and QA

LibOCon Sponsor Interviews

LibreOffice Conference 2021, although virtual, could not happen without the support of sponsors, which are – in order of confirmation – the following five companies: Collabora, allotropia, LPI, Omnis Cloud and CarboneIO.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2021, we offered the two largest sponsors – Collabora and allotropia – the opportunity of providing their opinions about the office suite market segment and situation during an interview, which we have organized, produced and edited in-house using only free software (Jitsi to manage the interview, HandBrake to convert to MP4, VidCutter to trim the video, and ShotCut to add the intro and correct the audio).

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LibreOffice 2021 Schedule Mobile App

The LibreOffice 2021 Schedule Mobile App is immediately available on Google Play and F-Droid. From the F-Droid page is also possible to download the APK, although by installing that way you will not receive update notifications.

The mobile app, for Android smartphones and tablets, shows the conference schedule: by swiping right and left, the user can switch between the three rooms, while a drop down menu allows to chose one of the three days. By tapping on each of the talks, it is possible to star it to create a personal conference schedule, and to set an alarm to avoid losing the important presentations. Changes to the schedule will be immediately reflected on the mobile app, although it is always possible to force a refresh, and to show the latest changes.

LibreOffice Conference 2021 will open on September 23 at noon CEST and will close on September 25 at 5:30PM CEST. The schedule is available at the following link: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/. Please check it on a regular basis for last minute changes.

People who will attend the LibreOffice Conference via Jitsi are kindly requested to register by filling in the form on the following webpage: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2021/registration-form/. The registration will allow us to manage conference sessions in the best way, to provide a smoother experience than in 2020 (when we had a couple of unwelcome “guests” trying to spoil the event).

LibreOffice Conference 2021 will be streamed on the conference website and YouTube. To ask questions to speakers, attendees will be able to use Matrix, IRC [Libera Chat] or Telegram (channels will be bridged, so it will be possible to use only one of them).

Chat Links to Conference Rooms

Matrix IRC Telegram
Room 1 https://matrix.to/#/#libocon-room1:libera.chat https://web.libera.chat/?settings=#libocon-room1 https://t.me/liboconroom1
Room 2 https://matrix.to/#/#libocon-room2:libera.chat https://web.libera.chat/?settings=#libocon-room2 https://t.me/liboconroom2
Room 3 https://matrix.to/#/#libocon-room3:libera.chat https://web.libera.chat/?settings=#libocon-room3 https://t.me/liboconroom3

LibreOffice advocates and conference attendees can support the event by purchasing LibreOffice Conference swag from Freewear, from the following page: https://www.freewear.org/LibreOfficeConference/.

In addition to the blog, we will publish all announcements on the two Telegram groups: LibreOffice Virtual Conference Announcements (https://t.me/LibOcon) and LibreOffice Virtual Conference (https://t.me/liboconvirtual), and on the LibreOffice Conference website: https://conference.libreoffice.org/.

LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community available for download

Berlin, September 16, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.2 family targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. This version includes 87 bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.

Most significant new features of LibreOffice 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 Community provides a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary DOCX/XLSX/PPTX file formats: Writer tables (better import/export and management of table functions, and better support for change tracking in floating tables); management of cached field results in Writer; support of spacing below the header’s last paragraph in DOC/DOCX files; and additional SmartArt improvements when importing PPTX files.

In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images. There are also drawing speed improvements when using the Skia back-end that was introduced with LibreOffice 7.1.

LibreOffice 7.2 Community is also available natively for Apple Silicon, a series of processors designed by Apple and based on the ARM architecture. Because of the early stage of development on this specific platform, binaries are provided but should not be used for critical purposes. Software is available from the following page: https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.2.1/mac/aarch64/.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community

LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open source office suites. For users whose main objective is personal productivity and therefore prefer a release that has undergone more testing and bug fixing over the new features, The Document Foundation provides LibreOffice 7.1.6.

LibreOffice 7.2.1 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC2 (changed in RC2).

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills to the project can visit the dedicated website at https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 7.2 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

Announcement of LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community

Berlin, September 9, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.1 family, targeted to desktop productivity, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/.

End user support is provided by volunteers via email and online resources: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice 7.1.6 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.1.6/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.1.6/RC2 (changed in RC2).

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 7.1.6 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

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