Quick report: LibreOffice training in İstanbul

Gökhan Gurbetoğlu from our Turkish community organised some LibreOffice training earlier this month. Here’s his summary:

It was a two-day training, 2-3 October 2018, from 10:00 to 17:00. The training took place in İstanbul, as part of the Open Source in Public Institutions Conference’s local sessions (Kamu Açık Kaynak Konferansı).

There were 25 trainees on both days. The first day started with a quick introduction to LibreOffice’s interface and continued with Writer. Then the second day was for Calc. In Writer I focused on:

  • Introduction to Writer’s interface
  • Selection methods
  • Working with documents
  • Formatting: text, paragraphs, pages, styles
  • Referencing: index, table of contents, etc.
  • Tables, images and other embedded objects
  • Settings and customization

While in Calc I focused on:

  • Introduction to Calc’s interface
  • Working with spreadsheets: moving inside the spreadsheet, cell referencing, hiding, locking cells, etc.
  • Numbered lists and series
  • Formula bar and functions
  • Formatting: cells, pages, styles
  • Charts: creating and modifying
  • Data and filters
  • Ended with telling the most used functions in Calc

Thanks to Gökhan for organising the training and his report! Learn more about LibreOffice training and certification options here.

Coming up: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2018

Next month, on November 1st, we’re starting a new Month of LibreOffice. But what does this mean? Well, it’s your chance to get some cool stickers for your laptop, PC, bike, pool table, or indeed anything else you have!

From the start of November, we’ll make a note of contributions all across the project, in development, QA, marketing, documentation, translations and more. Everyone who helps out in the community can claim their stickers – and if you’re already a long-time contributor, you can encourage other people to join in as well!

We’ll post more details on November 1st, including specific ways to get involved and help to make LibreOffice even better. Stay tuned…

LibreOffice Conference 2018: More presentation videos

The next batch of videos from our conference in Tirana is online. (Use headphones for the best audio.)

First, Simon Phipps talks about the 20th anniversary of the Open Source Initiative:

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Then Heiko Tietze provides some news from the LibreOffice design team:

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Finally, Caolan McNamara describes some updates to the native GTK UI:

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Many more videos still to come!

Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2018 in Tirana, Albania

Our Albanian community has created this great recap video the recent conference in Tirana – check it out! And a big thanks for their help with organising the event.

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LibreOffice Conference 2018: State of the Project (video)

We’ve edited and uploaded another video from our conference in Tirana, in which Italo Vignoli gives an overview of the project and community. (Use headphones for the best audio.)

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Coming up on 22 October: First Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2

LibreOffice 6.2 is currently being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early February 2019 – see the release notes describing the new features here. We’re still early in the development cycle, so more features are still to come!

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 on Monday October 22, 2018. Tests will be performed on the first Alpha version, which will be available on the pre-releases server a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be installed and run in parallel along with the production version.

Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Alpha release (LibreOffice 6.2.0 Alpha 1) will be available until mid-November.

During the day there will be a dedicated session to test the new KDE 5 integration available in LibreOffice 6.2 from 14:00 to 16:00 UTC.

All details of the first bug hunting session are available on the wiki. Come join us, and help to make LibreOffice 6.2 the best release yet!