Category: Community

A week ago, we started the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022. Anyone who contributes to our projects will get a cool sticker pack – and has a chance to win more merch! So far, over 100 people have joined in – here are their names/usernames:

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos afit5 ajlittoz Alain Romedenne Alessandro Alex Pakhotin Alex Thurgood Amarjargal Gundjalam Annabelle Wübbelsmann Anupam Malhotra Aron Budea Asier Sarasua Garmendia Ayhan YALÇINSOY bantoniof Baurzhan Muftakhidinov Bayram Çiçek Benyamin Limanto Bogdan B Chollot Christian Kühl cpb csongor Daniel Lohmann David Gilbert David Lynch Dieter Dimitris Spingos EarnestAl Elisabetta Manuele Emanuele Goldoni Eyal Rozenberg floris_v Francisco.ruiz Grantler HanV Hasan Yıldız Henner Drewes Hrbrgr jan d Javier Salamanca JCR Jeff Fortin Tam jfn Jim Raykowski JohnSUN Jorge Teixeira José G Moya Y Julien Nabet jun meguro Justin L Jürgen Kirsten KamilLanda Karl Morten Ramberg karolus kees538 Kevin Suo KingAwiin Kolbjørn Stuestøl Kovács Viktor LeroyG Lupp m.a.riosv Marco Pinto Martin Sourada Maxim Monastirsky Menoo Michael H Michael Wolf Miloš Šrámek Nalini Dash offtkp Olaf Guse Paul D. Mirowsky Peter Schofield Philip Jackson Pierre Fortin Prcek Quentin PAGÈS raal Radish Rafael Lima Rainer Bielefeld Ratslinger Regina Henschel RegisPerdreau Robert Großkopf Roman Kuznetsov Sahil Butola Samson B ScootrKDEbug Richards Secară Cristian serval2412 Shinji Enoki sokol92 Stanislav Horáček Stephen Heumann Stevefanning Strepon sujith taichi Telesto Theppitak Karoonboonyanan TorrAB TXDon V Stuart Foote Villeroy Wanderer William Friedman Ximena Alcaman Zizi64 Μιχάλης Ζήσης @Bassogna @hgucpardus @livreeaberto @mattroyal @MichlFranken @stevepdp @vleeth_

Don’t see your name there? Click here to join in!

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

• Throughout October, we edited and uploaded videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2022. So far, there are 36 videos from talks and presentations – with more to come! Here’s the playlist:

• Our documentation team released an updated edition of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 (revision 1) with new contents on sparklines and conditional formatting. Typos and last minute mistakes and formatting were also fixed in this release. Great work!

• Meanwhile, we released LibreOffice 7.4.2, the second minor update to the 7.4 branch. All users are recommended to update, for maximum reliability and security.

• Dominique Welt, Ph.D. Candidate and instructor at McGill University, told us about a presentation: “Using LibreOffice Base to Teach Relational Database Management”.

• On October 20, TDF announced the availability of LibreOffice for Windows on the Microsoft Store, to support end users who want to get their desktop software from Microsoft’s own sales channel. There’s a convenience fee of €4.59, which will be invested to further support development of the LibreOffice project. But the suite will remain free of charge to download from the main website.

• Finally, we launched a new “Liason” role in the Native Language Communities. This role aims to improve the communication between the global projects, The Document Foundation and the local communities. This communication should be directed in two ways: keep local communities informed on what is happening internationally, and keep the international community informed of what is achieved by the local communities. If you’re interested, we look forward to hearing from you 😊

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!

Love LibreOffice? ❤️ You’re not alone – tens of millions of people use the software every day. And hundreds of people around the world collaborate to improve the suite, update its documentation and help to spread the word. Join them!

In the coming four weeks, we’d love it if you get involved, join our community, and have fun. You can build up valuable skills for a future career – and you don’t need to be a programmer. There are many ways to help make LibreOffice awesome, as we’ll see in a moment.

And best of all: everyone who contributes to LibreOffice in the next four weeks can claim a cool sticker pack, and has the chance to win extra LibreOffice merchandise such as mugs, hoodies, T-shirts, rucksacks and more (we’ll choose 10 participants at random at the end):

How to take part

So, let’s get started! There are many ways you can help out – and as mentioned, you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a…

• Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers.

• First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 7.4.2”.

• Drum Beater, spreading the word: tell everyone about LibreOffice on Twitter or Mastodon! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.

• Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.

• Code Cruncher, contributing source code: The codebase is big, but there are lots of places to get involved with small jobs. See our Developers page on the website and this page on the wiki to get started.

• Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

We’ll be updating this page every few days with usernames across our various services, as people contribute. So dive in, get involved and help make LibreOffice better for millions of people around the world – and enjoy your sticker pack at the end as thanks from us! And who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to win bonus merch as well…

Let’s go! We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog and our Mastodon and Twitter accounts over the next four weeks – stay tuned!