Let’s do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget

Want to organise a local (or online) LibreOffice event? Need some merchandise to boost your project or community? Then we can help you! The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is backed by contributions from ecosystem members and volunteers, as well as donations from end-users. This helps us to maintain TDF, but we can do a lot more too. And next year, we want to do a lot of projects again!

Each year, we set a budget that LibreOffice projects and communities can use for financial support. Some examples:

  • Booking a location, and travel refunds for a local event (eg a translation sprint)
  • Merchandise for community members, to use at events and conferences
  • Infrastructure to start a new project (or help an existing one)

So if you have some ideas for a meetup, project or activity that could benefit from financial help, let us know! We can also assist you in other ways: our team members are there to help you, and enable you to do exciting and interesting things.

You don’t need to work out all the technical details right now – the main thing is that we have an overview. To help us with planning, we kindly ask you to send your ideas by the end of November, as we try to prepare the 2022 annual budget during December.

You can send your proposal (with estimated costs) to budgets@documentfoundation.org and we’ll take a look. Of course, can’t guarantee that everything will be approved, but we’d love to hear your ideas!

Further reading

Recap of the Hybrid LibreOffice Conference 2021 in Hamburg

Recently, our LibreOffice Conference 2021 took place – and online, due to the ongoing pandemic situation. But some members of the German community organized a small “hybrid” event in Hamburg! Thorsten Behrens reports:

My personal impression: it was really important to meet in person again. I enjoyed it very much, even if it was perhaps not quite ideal for the quality of the presentations. On the other hand, I found the feeling of having a real audience in front of me incredibly good and surprisingly different. I still have a few ideas to make the hybrid experience much better.

Although there are still some pandemic restrictions in place, we hope to participate in more in-person events starting early next year. There will be more updates on this blog! And here are a few photos from the event…

LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2021

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 event in September for was the LibreOffice Conference 2021! It had to take place online again this year, due to the pandemic, but we still had hundreds of people around the world joining our live streams and taking part in the discussions. We’ve also started uploading videos of the talks with more to come – stay tuned to this blog!

  • On September 28, we celebrated our 11th anniversary. After 11 years, the project and its global community are amongst the largest in the FLOSS ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology sets the development path for personal productivity.

  • During the month, we had updates to the 7.1 and 7.2 branches of LibreOffice, fixing bugs and improving compatibility. LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16, while LibreOffice 7.1.6 arrived on September 9.

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Czech translation of Impress Guide 7.0 is here!

Zdeněk Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The Czech team has finished translating the Impress Guide 7.0. As usual, it was a team effort, namely:

Translations by Zdeněk Crhonek, Radomír Strnad, Petr Kuběj, Vendula Crhonková; text corrections Petr Valach, Ludmila Klatovská, Martin Kasper, Marcela Tomešová; localized pictures Roman Roman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!

The Czech translation of the Impress Guide 7.0 is available for download here.

The team continue with translations of the Draw Guide and Base Guide. We always looking for new translators. Join us!

Many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their awesome work!

LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.2

The LibreOffice Documentation Team is happy to announce the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.2, covering the latest innovations of the best open source office suite. The new guide is an effort of many volunteers and among them, Jean Hollis Weber, Kees Kriek, Peter Schofield, Vasudev Narayanan, Rafael Lima and Mitchell Camfield.

A big THANK YOU ALL ! YOU ROCK!

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