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Five ways we can make LibreOffice and Thunderbird work better together

LibreOffice and Thunderbird logos, shaking hands

LibreOffice doesn’t include an email program, but there are many excellent free and open source software clients that work well alongside it. One prominent example is Mozilla Thunderbird – a sister project to the Firefox web browser.

We know that many people use LibreOffice and Thunderbird as part of their daily workflows – so how can we make them work better together? We reached out on social media to hear from our users – on Mastodon and Twitter (and the Thunderbird project posted on their Mastodon and Twitter accounts too).

Thanks a lot to everyone who responded! There were many great ideas, and here are our top five:

Jay Robbie:

A consistent UI/UX would help familiarize newcomers to both tools more quickly…. possibly a unified Settings area if you were to combine the functionality of both apps. Include a Thunderbird app launcher in the LibreOffice dashboard.

Briani Davide:

Link documents to calendar events or tasks, enabling quick access to relevant files during meetings or when working on projects and create calendar events or tasks directly from within LibreOffice.

this.ven:

What about a better integration of the viewing, editing and exporting capabilities from LibreOffice into Thunderbird for files send via mail? For example, an ODT file can be viewed and edited directly in Thunderbird (without leaving the window) and exported as PDF file.

Johannes:

For me it would help if both would have the same shortcuts for styling the text. For example Ctrl+1 for Header1 etc.

Fabián Valverde:

Being able to insert from Thunderbird contacts into LibreOffice while writing, like when you type “@” on Twitter…

So, let’s make these improvements happen! LibreOffice and Thunderbird are community-driven open source projects, so the more help we get, the better. On our side, we have a meta bug tracking interoperability and integration, and this page shows how to get involved. If you want to help out in the Thunderbird project, see this page. (And if you’re a business running LibreOffice and Thunderbird, please consider funding developers to work on the features you need.)

Thanks in advance for all help – let’s make these apps rock together 😊

LibreOffice Community Infrastructure – TDF’s Annual Report 2022

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In 2022, the infrastructure team deployed a second web-based alternative to mailing lists, and upgraded many services

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

LibreOffice’s infrastructure team is responsible for maintaining the hardware, virtual machines and services that enable the wider community to develop, market, test, localize and improve the software.

For some years, the public infrastructure has been powered by kernel-based virtual machines (KVMs) spread across four hypervisors hosted at Manitu in St. Wendel (Germany), and managed by TDF. This setup served well in the past, but started showing age and arguably no longer met the community’s growing needs. In 2022, the decision was made to migrate about half of the virtual machines (roughly 30) to Hetzner, using a mix of real hosts and virtual machines located in Nuremberg, Falkenstein, and Nuremberg. Among the migrated services are many production services such as Gerrit, Bugzilla, Mediawiki, Discourse and Nextcloud instances.

Our infra team also deployed a second Discourse site to be used for discussion in addition to (or in lieu of) mailing lists. A web-based discussion platform has long been requested by community members who compared to the early day of the project are less keen to use e-mail for everything. Several teams have requested migrated existing mailing lists to the new platform.

On the backend front, our infra team continued with the upgrade of our Debian GNU/Linux machines to version 11 (codename “Bullseye”), and upgraded services following the respective upstream schedules (notably, Gerrit was upgraded to branch 3.6, Weblate to 4.11, Discourse to 2.8, and Redmine to 4.2).

Like what we do? Support the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation – get involved and help our volunteers, or consider making a donation. Thank you!

Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference!

The LibreOffice Conference 2023 is coming up in September in Romania – and everyone is welcome to join! The organisers have created a poster with details about a workshop at the event:

We invite you to a technical workshop that will teach you about LibreOffice development and Open Source in general. It will be part of the the annual LibreOffice Conference, that will take place this year in Bucharest at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, between 21 and 23 September. For more details about the workshop please visit this page.

In order to participate, you have to register here, and check the Will you join the “Introduction to LibreOffice Development” workshop? option.

Poster with information about the workshop (which is also on the site)

Learn more about the conference here

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community

Berlin, June 8, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux [1].

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), for mobile platforms (Android and iOS), and for the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a large number of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLA (Service Level Agreements): https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community

LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community is available from: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.14. LibreOffice Technology-based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support for users, although they can get it 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 with a donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate

[1] Change log pages: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.4/RC1 and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.4/RC2

Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023!

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At the start of May, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? Check it out…

Awesome work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. We’re hugely thankful for your contributions – and, of course, everyone who’s listed on the wiki page can get a sticker pack, with these stickers and more:

How to claim

If you see your name (or username) on this page, get in touch! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page so that we can check, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you a bunch of stickers for your PC, laptop and other kit.

(Note: your address will only be used to post the stickers, and will be deleted immediately afterwards.) If you contributed to the project in May but you’re not on the wiki page, please let us know what you did, so that we can add you!

There is one more thing…

And we have an extra bonus: nine contributors have also been selected at random to get an extra piece of merchandise – a LibreOffice hoodie, T-shirt, rucksack or snazzy glass mug. Here are the winners (names or usernames) – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

  • joshua4
  • Czesław Wolański
  • Peter Gervai
  • Jeff Fortin Tam
  • Chris Tapp
  • Mahmoud Alnaanah
  • devseppala
  • Harvey Nimmo
  • Nguyễn Hoàng Minh
  • goodosuser

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thanks once again to everyone who took part! Your contributions keep the LibreOffice project strong. We plan to have another Month of LibreOffice later in the year, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!

LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 – Surakarta

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Our community in Asia let us know about an event they’re organising…

LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 (hereinafter referred to as LOUCA23) is an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and businesses in the Asian region, mainly related to and focused on the LibreOffice and Ubuntu projects.

This year’s LOUCA23 will be held in the city of Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, and is targeting as many as 500 participants from students, university students, academics, professionals, government agencies, NGOs, cooperatives, and companies.

Objective

LOUCA23 is organised as an active contribution of the LibreOffice Indonesia and Ubuntu communities, by bringing together experts and practitioners, business entities, institutions, activists, contributors, and users of LibreOffice and Ubuntu to discuss and share knowledge directly. This activity is expected to provide benefits in terms of knowledge, relationships, finance, and so on for participants who are directly involved during the activity process.

Participants

LOUCA23 targets at least 500 participants including students, academics, professionals, government agencies, NGOs, cooperatives and companies.

Agenda

Here are some of the types of activities that will be part of the LOUCA23 event:

  • Roadshow
  • Special Host Event / Pre Event
  • Keynote session
  • Parallel class
  • Panel discussion
  • Exhibition Booth
  • Community Meet Up

Venue

Venue

 Aula FKIP (Gedung F) UNS

https://goo.gl/maps/uvELNcUQ9Ut8NVwq5

Capacity

600 persons

Facilities

 – AC

– Seats 600

– Sound system

– Projector

– Custom screen

– Backstage / Transit Room

– There are 3 toilets (2 in front and 1 in the Backstage).

Classroom (needed)

 In Building G there are 6 classes on the 3rd floor,

Distance +- 80 m from the location

Prayer Room

 There is a prayer room on the 1st and 2nd floors

Nurul Huda UNS Mosque

+- 800m

https://goo.gl/maps/bAGksMFmh4urwjL49

UNS Campus Church

+- 150m

https://goo.gl/maps/nhtWXDTzvqdQCTMNA

Venue Contact Person

 – Head of Mikroptik

Sanya +62 896-5347-9229

Promotion Media

Date

The event will be held on Friday – Sunday, 6 – 8 October 2023

Venue Pictures

LibreOffice Conf.Asia 2023 venue

LibreOffice Conf.Asia 2023 venue

LibreOffice Conf.Asia 2023 venue

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