LibreOffice Community releases the Writer 7.6 Guide in Brazilian Portuguese.

Translated by Timothy Brennan Jr.

Rio de Janeiro, September 26, 2024 – The Brazilian LibreOffice community proudly presents its new edition of the Writer Guide 7.6 , based on LibreOffice 7.6 and with the innovations introduced in this version.

The guide meets the need for LibreOffice documentation in Brazilian Portuguese and the Writer Guide will help all LibreOffice users in editing texts, monographs, theses, reports, minutes and much more.…

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The Document Foundation announces the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024

Berlin, 25 September 2024 – The LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 will take place in Luxembourg from the 10 to the 12 October 2024. It will be hosted by the Digital Learning Hub and the local campus of 42 Luxembourg at the Terres Rouges buildings in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette.

This is a key event that brings together the LibreOffice community – supporting the leading FOSS office suite – with a large number of stakeholders: large open source projects, international organizations and representatives from EU institutions and European government departments.…

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LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2024

LibreOffice project and community recap banner

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

  • The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 24.8. This is our latest major stable branch – and the second to use the “year.month” version number scheme. It has a ton of new features, improvements and fixes, some of which are shown in this short video (PeerTube version here):

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LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing

Our Taiwanese community reports back from a recent event:

The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 was held in Taipei from 2 – 3 August. This conference was suspended for several years due to the pandemic and was relaunched in Indonesia last year.

In addition to the local community, there were many partners from the Japanese and Indonesian communities, as well as experts from Germany and Italy, representing The Documentation Foundation and the Open Document Format Technical Committee, who attended this conference.…

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Community Member Monday: Gladys David

Gladys David

Today we’re talking to Gladys David, who is helping out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) project…

Hi! My name is gladys, I’m 41 years old and I’m French. I’ve been living in Espoo (Finland) for about six years – it’s a country where I always wanted to live. Previously I stayed in London for 10 years, and was in France before that.…

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LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024 near Bonn!

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

FrOSCon is a yearly free and open source software (FOSS) conference that takes place in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany. And this year, the LibreOffice community was present! We had a stand with information flyers and merchandise, including stickers, pens, beer/coffee mats and more:

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

Over the two days, many people visited our stand and asked us questions: what are we working on, when the next release is due (in a few days!),…

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