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V Latin American LibreOffice Congress – A meeting point for the entire Latin American community

V Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice

Our community in the region writes:

After successful previous events in Paraguay, Brazil and Mexico, the largest event of the LibreOffice project in Latin America arrives in Uruguay.

With the aim of bringing together users and collaborators to promote the dissemination of knowledge and experiences related to LibreOffice, the 2024 edition of the Latin American Congress will be held on December 5 and 6, at Espacio Colabora, in Montevideo.

For the realization of the event, the LibreOffice Project has the support of several local Free Software collectives: Resistencia Programada, Impulso Libre, GNLUG and Undernet.

Guest speakers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and France will present tutorials on the use of the applications and ways to collaborate with the project. The schedule and registration link will be released shortly on the event’s official website.

LibreOffice 24.2.6 available for download, for the privacy-conscious user

Berlin, 5 September 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.6, the sixth minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office productivity suite for office environments and individuals, the best choice for privacy-conscious users and digital sovereignty, is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The release includes over 40 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.2.5 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats. LibreOffice 24.2.6 is aimed at mainstream users and enterprise production environments.

LibreOffice is the only office suite with a feature set comparable to the market leader, and offers a range of user interface options to suit all users, from traditional to modern Microsoft Office-style. The UI has been developed to make the most of different screen form factors by optimizing the space available on the desktop to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away.

LibreOffice for Enterprises

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a range of dedicated value-added features, long term support and other benefits such as SLAs: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

Every line of code developed by ecosystem companies for enterprise customers is shared with the community on the master code repository and contributes to the improvement of the LibreOffice Technology platform.

Availability of LibreOffice 24.2.6

LibreOffice 24.2.6 is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Windows 7 SP1 and macOS 10.15. Products based on LibreOffice Technology for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.

Next week, power users and technology enthusiasts will be able to download LibreOffice 24.8.1, the first minor release of the recently announced new version with many bug and regression fixes. A summary of the new features of the LibreOffice 24.8 ifamily s available on this blog post: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/.

End users looking for support will be helped by the immediate availability of the LibreOffice 24.8 Getting Started Guide, which is available for download from the following link: https://books.libreoffice.org/. In addition, they will be able to get first-level technical support from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: https://ask.libreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support the Document Foundation by making a donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.2.6/RC1. Fixes in RC2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.2.6/RC2.

New “LibreOffice Expert 2024/2025” magazines available for schools and local communities

LibreOffice Expert magazines

Recently, Linux New Media released an updated version of its “LibreOffice Expert” magazine, which contains tutorials, tips and tricks about the office suite. And some articles were contributed by members of the LibreOffice community! The magazines come with DVDs that include LibreOffice for Linux, Windows and macOS, alongside extra templates, extensions, videos and guidebooks.

We have some copies to give away, for schools, universities and local communities. Ideally, we’d like to get these magazines out to places where internet connections aren’t always available – so that the users can really benefit from the DVDs.

So, if you can help us to distribute these magazines, drop us a line! Please note that we can only send a maximum of five copies to any one place, to make sure many people get a chance. When you contact us, please include this information (any requests without cannot be fulfilled):

  1. What you want to do with the magazines
  2. How many you want
  3. The address to which we should post them

Include that information in an email to us and let’s see what we can do!

(Note: if you want to buy the magazine directly from the publisher, you can do so here.)

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2024

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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 24.8. This is our latest major stable branch – and the second to use the “year.month” version number scheme. It has a ton of new features, improvements and fixes, some of which are shown in this short video (PeerTube version here):

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  • In other conference news, we announced that the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre is co-organising it. This is an Economic Interest Grouping gathering the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), created to support national activities related to digital learning and to operate service and innovation platforms.

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  • Next, we spoke to Khushi Gautam who is currently working on fixing bugs in her LibreOffice Outreachy project, “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find”, alongside Google Summer of Code students to make further progress.

Khushi Gautam

LibreOffice in Microsoft Store

  • The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes. An election for a new MC is coming up, and in August we ran three live “townhall” Q+A sessions with the candidates. Recordings from two of them are online (PeerTube versions here and here):

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LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 24.8

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei

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Community Member Monday: Gladys David

Gladys David

Today we’re talking to Gladys David, who is helping out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) project…

Hi! My name is gladys, I’m 41 years old and I’m French. I’ve been living in Espoo (Finland) for about six years – it’s a country where I always wanted to live. Previously I stayed in London for 10 years, and was in France before that.

I work in fashion retail management, and like to hike, read, go to the sauna and my garden. I always wanted to work in IT, but as I had no experience in computer science, I never got the courage to start. So I got involved with LibreOffice through a volunteer platform on the internet.

I learnt about bug triaging, confirmed newly reported bugs, and starting to bibisect. I’m still really new to it. Big thanks to Ilmari for spending time coaching me. I wouldn’t have been able to do it on my own! His help and advice pushed me to go forward.

It’s awesome to see how the community is working together to fix issues. And a even greater feeling to be part of it.

My advice to anyone who is not from the field of computer science and would like to contribute to open source: anything can be learned with patience and dedication. I will continue learning new skills and would like to contribute much more to LibreOffice in the future.

Big thanks to Gladys for all her contributions! Everyone is welcome to join our community, build new skills, and help to make LibreOffice even better for the whole world 😊

Community announces the Getting Started Guide 24.8

The book is released on time for the new LibreOffice 24.8 release.

Getting Started Guide 24.8

The community members of the LibreOffice documentation team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Getting Started Guide 24.8, at the same time of the release of LibreOffice Community 24.8, our latest major update.

The book is for anyone who wants to get up-to-speed quickly with LibreOffice 24.8. It introduces Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor), and Base (database) as well as important information on common features and settings of all modules.

Olivier Hallot, LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator at The Document Foundation, said:

We sought a companion product for the recently released LibreOffice Community 24.8 in order to enable users to download the software and have the appropriate software documentation readily available. We are offering a complete solution of software and documentation to anyone who wants to deploy LibreOffice in offices and organizations or for individual use.

The guide is an effort of a multi-regional, multi-language documentation team of advanced users that collaborates on the update and authoring of new features introduced with LibreOffice Community 24.8. Special thanks to Jean Hollis Weber (AU), Claire Wood (UK), Steve Fanning (UK), Luciana Motta (BR), B. Antonio Fernández (ES), Olivier Hallot (BR), Timothy Brennan Jr. (BR), Vítor Ferreira (BR), Rafael Lima (BR), Rob Thornton (USA), Edward Olson (USA), Peter Schofield (PL).

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