We are approaching the end of 2015. We have decided to celebrate the month of December with our own version of the Advent Calendar: one simple tip per day, to make the use of LibreOffice more enjoyable or more productive.
Today, December 1, we start by pointing LibreOffice users to Ask LibreOffice and to the FAQ on TDF Wiki. These two resources provide a number of tips based either on questions asked by users (Ask) or on the experience of long time LibreOffice users (FAQ).
They are both useful, and we warmly invite LibreOffice users worldwide to leverage these resources provided by community volunteers.
During the Aarhus Conference, we have organized the usual group picture to celebrate the community, leveraging the architectural features of the DOKK1.
We have gathered on one of the large staircases leading to the first floor of the building, which were the ideal setting for a group picture.
To the surprise of the group, in addition to the usual camera picture, Dennis Borup Jakobsen has organized a “drone” session, to get a different view of the community, as seen from the sky.
The result is amazing, and has provided a different point of view on the community.
The Document Foundation has opened a store for LibreOffice merchandising at Spreadshirt.Net.
We have a few items at the moment, mostly mugs and t-shirts, but we are open to suggestions and new designs. If you want to contribute, or if you already have a design to suggest, send an email to italo@documentfoundation.org.
The shop is managed by Spreadshirt, which is also responsible for the production of the items, the collection of the payment and the delivery of the items. The Document Foundation will get a small percentage of each item cost, to support the project.
The LibreOffice community has a wide geographical reach, which is shown on this map, where all countries where there is at least a TDF Member are shown in green.
The LibreOffice community will gather in Aarhus for the LibreOffice Conference, where most of the countries will be represented. In addition, there will be volunteers from other countries, according to this map, where all countries where there is at least a conference participant are shown in green.
To better organize the three events, all interested conference participants are kindly requested to register using the form that can be found in each event page. Only people registered will have access to the events in Aarhus.
Berlin, August 19, 2015 – Following the announcement of LibreOffice 5.0, The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice in Guarani, the language spoken by 80% of the population in Paraguay, and the official second language of the country.
Guarani is spoken in the area in yellow
Guarani is spoken in parts of northeastern Argentina (Corrientes, Formosa,Misiones, eastern parts of the Province of Chaco, and at isolated points of Entre Rios), is the second official language of the Argentine province of Corrientes since 2004, is the co-official language of Bolivia, and is spoken in several cities of the eastern state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. Guarani is also one of the official languages of Mercosur (source: Wikipedia).
LibreOffice in Guarani has been be presented on August 13 at OEI (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos) facilities in Asunción, Paraguay, to a selected audience. TDF and LibreOffice have also been presented in the Centro Nacional de Computación of UNA (Universidad Nacional de Asunción) in San Lorenzo Campus.
The localization to Guarani was carried by a single volunteer: Giovanni Caligaris. LibreOffice in Guarani is immediately available for download from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.
“Back in 2011, I started discussing with the CIO of a Paraguayan corporation at the LibreOffice Conference in Paris, and we envisioned how to get the office suite in Guarani”, said Olivier Hallot, a founding member of TDF, and a LibreOffice advocate. “Unfortunately, the project stalled, until Giovanni Caligaris picked up the task, and managed to localize LibreOffice in Guarani in a rather short timeframe”.
“With the availability of LibreOffice in Guarani, Paraguay positions itself at the same level of more developed countries, and represents an incentive for countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to conduct a localization project for their native languages”, said Giovanni Caligaris. “The next task is to increase the LibreOffice awareness in Paraguay, with the help of the LibreOffice community”.
With the addition of Guarani, LibreOffice gets closer to the vision of the founding members of the project, to bring the free office suite in their native language to 100% of the world population, to reduce the digital divide based on the familiarity with one of the languages spoken in the richest countries. Today, close to 90% of the world population can use LibreOffice in their native language.
