On September 28, 2010, LibreOffice was announced to the world. 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.
Foundation Archive
28 Sep 2021
LibreOffice 11th Anniversary
01 Jul 2021
The Document Foundation welcomes allotropia to its Advisory Board
Berlin, July 1, 2021 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announced today that allotropia – a German company that provides services, consulting and products around LibreOffice and related open source projects – has joined TDF’s Advisory Board.
Founded in late 2020 with five long-time LibreOffice developers, allotropia’s stated mission is to
25 Jun 2021
Annual Report 2020: Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice
Bringing new community members on board and helping them get started is an essential part of our work. Here’s what we did in 2020
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
Onboarding tools and sites
Joining a large and established project
17 Jun 2021
Annual Report 2020: Website, blogs and social media
We use our website, blogs and social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join the LibreOffice community
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
Social media
In January 2020, our Twitter
16 Jun 2021
Hossein Nourikhah joins the TDF team as Developer Community Architect
Next week, Hossein Nourikhah will join the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, as Developer Community Architect. Hossein is a developer, university lecturer and FOSS advocate. He writes programs, teaches programming to students, and is an advocate for the use of free software applications, because they
15 Jun 2021
100 Paper Cuts as a new student mentoring activity
Just before the pandemic, the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation approved a budget to launch an educational program targeted to universities, where students at selected tech schools would receive an economic