
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
- ODF (the Open Document Format) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and is a fully open and standardised format, ideal for long-term document storage. At the
Linguistic challenges, women’s participation in FOSS, interoperability, professional training, migration, scripting and much more were hot topics in the conference held at the Facultad Politecnica of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay.
By Daniel A. Rodriguez.
The event started internally on Thursday 18 with a translation sprint of the LibreOffice Guarani team, with the assistance of Olivier

If you’ve seen our LibreOffice contributor map, you’ll note that we have a few community members in north America. (Of course, the map doesn’t show absolutely everyone in the LibreOffice project – just people we’ve interviewed recently.) So we want to grow this community! Marc Paré has set up LibreWaterloo,
Today we’re talking to Jun Nogata from our Japanese community!

To start, tell us a bit about yourself!
So, I live in Himeji, Japan where UNESCO World Heritage site Himeji Castle is. I work a part-time lecturer at a local university.
I am a big fan of free and open source software

Community is awesome! By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community. Here’s what they did in 2018, taken from our Annual Report…
Albania – OSCAL
OSCAL is the annual international Open Source Free Software Conference in Albania dedicated to
In 2017, contributors to the Open Document Format (ODF) specification at OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) noted that while the Technical Committee continues to generate changes, the integration of these