Amsterdam, January 12th, 2011 – OpenDoc Society, the global association that promotes best practices for office applications, today announced that The Document Foundation has become an organizational member. The Document Foundation joins other companies, Open Source communities, public sector organizations and not-for-profits that are already members organizations of OpenDoc Society, such as Cap Gemini, Google, IBM, CWI and the Netherlands Department of Defense. OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organizations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents, to learn from each other and share knowledge and best practices about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. (more…)
Category: Announcements
The LibreOffice website is live!
The LibreOffice website is live! http://www.libreoffice.org and http://de.libreoffice.org as well as other languages.
LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2 available for download
Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the second release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3. This release comes with lots of improvements and bugfixes, and a very substantial reduction in size for the Windows installer. As usual, be warned that this is beta quality software – nevertheless, we ask you to play with it – we very much welcome your feedback and testing!
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The Document Foundation joins Open Invention Network
The Document Foundation has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), to further extend the free software ecosystems. By becoming a licensee, The Document Foundation – developer of LibreOffice, a free office suite for personal and corporate productivity – has joined the growing list of organizations that recognize the importance of participating in the Open Invention Network, in order to protect the free software ecosystem from the risks associated to software patents. (more…)
LibreOffice development extends to Brazil
LibreOffice development extends to Brazil
The Internet, December 6, 2010 – The Document Foundation welcomes the new BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software, a software development project recently announced by BrOffice, Itaipu Binacional and the Itaipu Technological Park Foundation. The main software lab, based in Foz do Iguacu, will contribute to the development of LibreOffice (BrOffice in Brazil), and other free software projects. The activity is forecast to start in the first quarter of 2011.
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LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 1 available
Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is proud to announce the availability of LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 1. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our download page at
http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
The Document Foundation would like to thank all contributors who made this release possible.
This release candidate is not intended for production use! The final release of LibreOffice 3.3, for production use, will be available soon.
Yours
The Steering Committee of The Document Foundation