Donations to The Document Foundation help us to grow our community, maintain our infrastructure, and continue to improve LibreOffice. Here’s a graphic showing some things that donations enabled us to do in 2017…
LibreOffice and VolunteerMatch: Welcoming new contributors
Free and open source software, such as LibreOffice, is all about community. Anyone can get involved, and many people join the LibreOffice community because they want to improve something in the software – features, compatibility, translations, documentation, marketing and more. As we’ve seen in the ongoing Month of LibreOffice, we have hundreds of
Month of LibreOffice, May 2018 – The first week in
On May 1st, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions all across the project. Everyone who gets involved will be awarded a cool sticker for their work – so how many stickers have been won so far?
So that’s almost 150 community members who’ve helped to improve LibreOffice
Welcome gla11y, the user interface accessibility checker!
LibreOffice is designed with great attention to accessibility, to make the suite convenient and comfortable to use, and to cater to users with special needs. Last year The Document Foundation published a Tender to Implement Accessibility Improvements regarding user interface widgets that are added to the suite but which have accessibility shortcomings.
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Welcome, Google Summer of Code ’18 students!
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. The Document Foundation and LibreOffice participate every year, and today we are happy to announce a new record of 11 accepted students!
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Coming up: the Month of LibreOffice, May 2018!
Joining an open source project is awesome, for many reasons. You get to:
- Talk to, meet and share ideas with people around the world
- Build up valuable skills that could be useful in a future career
- Make the world a better place, by improving software for everyone to use
In the case of LibreOffice, you can