Community Archive

The November 2016 Month of LibreOffice begins!

Back in May we had a Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions to the software across the entire project. It was fantastic, with hundreds of badges and barnstars awarded to developers, translators, bug reporters, and also to people who help with documentation, the Ask.LibreOffice site and social media.

Well, it’s time to do

Coming up: a new Month of LibreOffice

Back in May we had a Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions from the community across many different teams – development, documentation, translations, QA, marketing and more. Well, six months have almost passed so it’s time for another! We’ll be running a new Month of LibreOffice throughout November, crediting contributors for their work.

As with May’s campaign,

Community Week: Design – get involved

LibreOffice Community Weeks

Earlier this week we talked to Heiko Tietze, LibreOffice’s user experience (UX) mentor, and then looked at some of the changes that the Design team has made in recent releases of the suite. You’ve seen that even the smallest updates to the interface can have a significant

Community Week: Design – recent changes, and communication

LibreOffice Community Weeks

On Monday we talked to Heiko Tietze who is LibreOffice’s user experience (UX) mentor, and today we’re going to look at some changes that the Design team has implemented in recent releases of the suite. You can see how new features are implemented to make them accessible without

Presenting LibreOffice Telegram channel

telegram_logo_smallFollowing the success of the LibreOffice Conference Telegram channel, we have asked our community – through an informal poll on the Telegram channel itself – if they wanted to keep the channel alive and change the

Community Weeks: Design – meet the team

LibreOffice Community Weeks

We now come to our final Community Week for October 2016, and this time we’re talking to the Design team. Design is an essential aspect of LibreOffice development, and it’s sometimes tough to find the right balance: some users want the interface to change rapidly with each release, whereas