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Don’t know how to code – how to contribute? LibreOffice at the FLISOL-DF Brasília

The Brazilian Community Gave a Presentation at the FLISOL-DF event (Festival Latino Americano de Instalação de Software Livre) about the LibreOffice Project.

Translation by Timothy Brennan Jr.

With the participation of Luciana Motta, Henderson Matsuura, Túlio Macedo and Timothy Brennan Jr., all members of The Document Foundation, the Brazilian LibreOffice community had the opportunity to give a presentation on the dynamics of LibreOffice in Brazil and their interaction with the international project.

Timothy and Luciana gave a lecture in conjunction entitled “I Don’t Know How to Code: How to contribute?” demonstrating how the LibreOffice project benefits from the volunteer and participative work of those who have foreign language skills, professional proofreading in Brazilian Portuguese, marketing and the promotion of software products, as well as coding in various modern computer languages where the gains acquired by individuals is always the unique experience of working alongside a team of professionals, both domestic and international. FLISOL was, additionally, an opportunity for a personal get-together of the Brazil team. This event focused on interaction and the exchange of ideas.

Team Brazil

FLISOL-DF, in the Federal District of Brazil’s capital, Brasília, took place on April 15, 2023 at the campus of Taguatinga (one of the Federal Districts satellite cities around Brasília) in the Universidade Católica de Brasília with the presence of Professor Wesley Sepulveda, and was organized by a team of volunteers lead by Henderson Matsuura.

Everyone can get involved and help to make LibreOffice even better – and you don’t need to be a coder! Learn more here

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Report about policy related activities in the EU

The Document Foundation, thanks to the widespread popularity of LibreOffice, is recognized as one of the largest FOSS organizations worldwide, and especially in Europe (where the project was born over 20 years ago). Because of this, during the last couple of years TDF has been involved in several discussions about policies which can affect or are affecting the adoption of FOSS, or the freedom of users’ choice for hardware, operating systems and software. A freedom of choice which should be protected by laws, especially when involving public administrations (with a strong focus on schools and universities, where future citizens grow up).

In December 2022, TDF’s Board of Directors has decided to increase public policy related activities in the EU by sponsoring travels to events organized by Open Forum Europe (OFE) – an umbrella organization supporting FOSS at the EU in Brussels – and by the European Commission – including DIGIT, the department in charge of IT related policies – on this specific topic, and I have been assigned this task within the team.

So far, most of the activities have been focused on the amendment of the proposed Cyber Resilience Act or CRA (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resilience-act), which – in the current version – would have a negative impact on FOSS in general. The first activity has been the drafting of a document commenting the CRA on the “Have Your Say” platform provided by the EC: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13410-Cyber-Resilience-Act_en. A summary of the most significant comments, including TDF’s comment, has been provided by OSI: https://blog.opensource.org/the-ultimate-list-of-reactions-to-the-cyber-resilience-act/.

In term of meetings, apart from regular meetings with representatives of other FOSS projects organized by OFE, just before FOSDEM I have attended OFE’s meeting in Brussels, and during FOSDEM a specific round table organized by FOSS organizations. In March, I have discussed the potentially negative impact of the CRA with representatives of DIGIT. In April, I will be at the meeting organized by the Swedish Government – temporary president of the European Commission – in Stockholm, where the Cyber Resilence Act will be a key topic. Hopefully, the joint efforts put in place during these months by FOSS foundations, communities and organizations will contribute to a better Cyber Resilience Act.

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LibreOffice project and community recap: March 2023

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

Conference logo

  • Throughout the month, we had three updates to LibreOffice – version 7.5.1 on March 2, and version 7.5.2 on March 30. We’re also maintaining the older LibreOffice 7.4 branch, and released 7.4.6 on March 9.

LibreOffice 7.5 banner

  • LibreOffice installer improvements (on Windows) are coming, thanks to Rachael Odetayo, Ximena Alcaman and Outreachy mentors. We talked to Rachael about what she’s working on, and how the installation process will be simplified.

Rachael Odetayo

  • Data protection and privacy is very important to us – and our users – in the LibreOffice project, so we’re happy to see that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is piloting the use of LibreOffice Technology.

LibreOffice Technology stack

Women's Day banner

  • While we’re planning the LibreOffice Conference 2023, as mentioned, we’re also looking further ahead to 2024. If you’d like to host the conference in your location, get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.

Conference 2022 group photo

Czech guidebook cover

  • Members of the German-speaking LibreOffice community met at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage event. They had a booth with merchandise, and answered questions from visitors.

LibreOffice booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

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German LibreOffice community meeting, March 2023 in Essen

Members sitting at a table

LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and many members of this community live in German-speaking countries. From 24 to 26 March, some of them met at the Linuxhotel in Essen. There was an informal meeting on Friday evening, while the main discussions started on Saturday. The topics included:

  • Further development of the Base database module
  • LibreOffice community at free software events
  • Flyers and donations
  • UX improvement possibilities
  • Status of the German LibreOffice project

Delicious food

It was a nice meeting, even if some couldn’t be there, and hopefully we’ll see each other again at events like FrOSCon – and of course the LibreOffice Conference in Bucharest in September!

Members sitting at a table

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LibreOffice Czech User Guides are now in the Bookshelf

The Czech Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Czech LibreOffice User Guides in the LibreOffice Bookshelf.

Thanks to the efforts of Zdeněk Crhonek and Stanislav Horáček, the bookshelf has now all recent user guides in Czech, available in PDF, OpenDocument (LibreOffice’s native file format) and HTML for online reading in the browser. As a true community effort, the Czech team also fixed some annoying bugs in the website.

The LibreOffice Bookshelf aims to be an easy way to be installed in companies, organizations or school premises, since all contents are static files and can be cloned from the LibreOffice repository.

You can access the LibreOffice Bookshelf at the address https://books.libreoffice.org and the source code is available at the address https://git.libreoffice.org/infra/bookshelf/

Want more guides in other languages? Join our localisation project and let’s make them happen!

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We were at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2023!

LibreOffice booth

In the LibreOffice community, most of our activities take place online: development, design, QA, localisation, marketing and so forth. But we like to meet face-to-face too, at events and conferences – and last weekend we did just that, at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2023 in Germany.

We had a booth with LibreOffice materials (flyers, stickers, pens and books):

Booth materials

As it was a Linux and free software-oriented event, almost all participants already knew about (and used) LibreOffice, but they had lots of interesting questions about our project.

Linux-Tage logo

Some visitors to our booth told us about deployments of LibreOffice in their businesses and organisations, while others talked to us about interesting use cases of LibreOffice in education and other areas.

Thanks to the Linux-Tage organisers for a great meetup! Now we’re looking forward to more events this year – and especially the LibreOffice Conference 2023 in September… 😊

Participants talking to each other

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