Community Archive

We’re now an SPI-associated project

We’re proud to announce, that from now on, LibreOffice is also an SPI-associated project. This also helps users from the US to donate via credit card and local bank accounts (don’t forget to mention “LibreOffice” when donating).

LibreOffice 3.3 release party in Rijeka (Croatia)

By Vedran Miletić

LibreOffice 3.3 release party in Rijeka (Croatia)

Event was originally planned for January when we expected release of LibO 3.3. Since LibO was released on 25.1, we decided to postpone because of the last

Public Marketing Conference Call on March 29th

The next marketing confcall will take place on Tuesday, March 29th, at 16:00 UTC (=18:00 German time). Remember that in some countries, daylight saving time will be in effect by that date! To determine your local date and time, see the converter in the Doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nn9gubpev28kzeus

Dial-in details will be provided in time.

How large is the LibreOffice community? A mailing list approach

For quite a while, I have been asked about the number of subscriptions in our mailing lists. I’ve now spent some time in the night and hacked a little bash script, to compile recent numbers, and will regularly post these to our moderators mailing list. Today’s statistics, for example, are available in this

A warm welcome to Canonical

The Document Foundation welcomes the contribution of Canonical‘s development team to LibreOffice. In particular it is great to welcome Bjoern Michaelsen’s recent addition to the full time team on the project from Canonical. Bjoern brings deep expertise on the LibreOffice core, and has spearheaded many improvements in his previous role at Oracle, we are

Hassles and woes – and how to solve them

Dear Community,

the last days, we have seen long discussions, people asking about processes and directions, and the role of the Steering Committee was unclear to some Community members. I do not want to discuss the issues in detail, I even don’t want to mention them by name, but I felt it was time to bring