The LibreOffice community was at FOSDEM 2026, to talk to users, answer questions, and encourage people to join the project. And we had merch:
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LibreOffice is free software – but “free” is about way more than just being zero-cost. It’s about giving users fundamental freedoms in how they run, share, study and improve their software and computers – giving control back to them.
For example, the source code for LibreOffice – that is, the human-readable “recipe” behind the program – is available for everyone to see, study and modify. You can download this code, see what it does, change it for your needs, and then turn it back into an executable version for your computer. Many hundreds of people have done this already, contributing back important changes and updates to LibreOffice. And then you’re free to share the changes with other users.
This is in contrast to most other office suites, which don’t give users these freedoms; they are “closed”, so users can’t look under the hood, can’t study how they work, can’t make changes, and can’t share the software. Users become restricted and trapped, controlled by and locked into specific software from a specific company – the very opposite of freedom.
So today, on “I love Free Software Day“, we at The Document Foundation would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who works on free software such as LibreOffice. Whether you’re involved in development, QA, design, translations, marketing, infrastructure or any other projects – we ❤️ your support.
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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Hello! We are at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels – come and say hello, let us know what you think about LibreOffice, and get cool merch…
Starting in January 2026, at the beginning of each quarter, i.e. in January, April, July and October, I will publish a slide deck with updated statistics on the LibreOffice project.
Unless there are specific requirements, the statistics will refer to the last 12 calendar months. Therefore, the January statistics will refer to the 2025 calendar year, while the next ones will refer to the period from April 2025 to March 2026, and so on.
All published information is available online for further processing. Links to data sources are on the penultimate slide, with some notes on data processing.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please write to me: my email address is on the last slide.
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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more…
