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LibreOffice Nepali localization sprint 2023

Nepalese localisation sprint

Suraj Bhattarai, our Liaison for the LibreOffice Nepali Community, writes:

The LibreOffice Nepali Community is collectively carrying out a LibreOffice localization sprint 2023, with support from major communities in Nepal, including Ask Buddie, Birendra Open Source Club (BOSC), Kathmandu University Open Source Club (KUOSC) and Nepal Open Source Klub (NOSK). The motto is: “Unlock Native: LibreOffice speaks Nepali”, and the starting date is 11th October 2023.

  • Focus: LibreOffice English to Nepali Localization
  • Mentor: Aadarsha Dhakal, Saroj Dhakal & Suraj Bhattarai
  • Duration: 1 hour each day

Objectives

  • Introduce/aware new contributors, students around the LibreOffice project through this localization event
  • Encourage Open Source communities and university based student clubs to expand and carry our work in their space as well.

Expected Participants: 50+ students – Orientation day: 11th October 2023

Registration Link

And say hello to the mentors at the event:

Mentor Aadarsha

Mentor Saroj

Mentor Suraj

LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2023

LibreOffice Conference 2023 group photo

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

  • We started the month by highlighting upcoming events: the LibreOffice Conference 2023 (which has now finished – more on that in a moment); the Latin American Conference, and LibreOffice Conf.Asia.

Conference logos

  • Next up, we had a bunch of LibreOffice Expert magazines to give away to schools and local communities. They’ve all been claimed now, but if you still want a copy, you can get one from the publisher.

LibreOffice Expert magazine

LibreOffice 7.6 banner

LibreOffice Writer 7.6 guide cover

  • This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Five projects were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and we presented some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 24.2 in early February 2024!

Google Summer of Code logo

  • The biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania. We had an awesome time, with talks, workshops and social meetups – more to come on this blog (including presentation videos) in the coming weeks!

LibreOffice Conference 2023 sponsor and supporter logos

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Important release of LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community with key security fix

A drawing of a generic "bug" with four colours on its back: red, green, blue, yellow.Berlin, 26 September 2023 – The Document Foundation is releasing LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community ahead of schedule to address a security issue known as CVE 2023-4863, which originates in a widely used code library known as libwebp, created by Google more than a decade ago to render the then-new WebP graphics format [1].

In addition to the CVE, the two new versions fix other bugs and regressions and are available immediately from www.libreoffice.org/download [2]. All users of LibreOffice are encouraged to update their current version as soon as possible.

The minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple MacOS 10.15.

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

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support to users, although it is available from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

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

[1] Details of CVE 2023-4863: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863. Bugzilla: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157231.

[2] Change logs for LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.6.2/RC1 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.7/RC1.

LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest

LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be hosted by the Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București, Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare (National University of Science and Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science) at the PRECIS building from Wednesday 20 September to Saturday 23 Septembe. On Wednesday, the community will gather for the usual community meeting to discuss localisation and marketing activities at the local level. The conference will open on Thursday morning and continue with talks and workshops until Saturday lunchtime (schedule). Alongside this, there will be a technical workshop focusing on LibreOffice development.

The conference is sponsored by Collabora Office and Allotropia (main sponsors), dvloper.io and 1&1, with a significant contribution from The Document Foundation, and the technical support of IT Genetics. The event has been organized by a local team of volunteers, backed by 1&1 and supported by the team at The Document Foundation with the help of local NGOs Rosedu and Tech Lounge. More information on the conference website.

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