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Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference!

2023-06-13

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.

Learn more about the conference here

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community

2023-06-082023-06-09

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!

2023-06-052023-12-01

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…

338

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

2023-06-04

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

Instagram
Telegram Channel
Contact Person: +62 8122-9107-693

Date

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

Venue Pictures

LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2023

2023-06-012023-06-02

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 May with the Month of LibreOffice! This is a campaign that we run twice a year, encouraging users to join our community and help to improve the software. Everyone can learn new things – and get some merchandise as thanks! Results will be announced here on the blog very soon…

Also early in May, we announced LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor update to the 7.3 branch. All users are recommended to upgrade. (We also announced LibreOffice 7.4.7, the last release of the 7.4 family.)

LibreOffice’s YouTube channel went over the 3 million views mark. Great stuff! We’d like to say a special thanks to community members who’ve contributed great work, such as the Indonesian community for the “New Features” videos (major LibreOffice releases), and Harald B. in the German community for his tutorials. (Note that many of the videos are also available on PeerTube.)

Our QA (Quality Assurance) community helps to identify and fix bugs in LibreOffice. Every week, Ilmari Lauhakangas from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) live-streams bug triaging sessions, so that others can see how he works on bug reports, and ask him questions. So, what do attendees think of the sessions so far? We asked some regulars – here’s what they said…

Throughout May, we posted sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2022. TDF is the non-profit entity that coordinates the LibreOffice community and provides infrastructure – all thanks to generous donations from users! Here are the sections on social media, user interface design, attracting new contributors to the project and documentation.

The LibreOffice Conference 2023 is coming up in Bucharest, Romania – September 21 – 23! And sponsorship packages are now available. Get in contact with one of the largest open source communities in the world, showcase your brand, and support FOSS!

One of the goals of The Document Foundation and the community it represents is to improve LibreOffice to make it even more competitive with other office suites. And one of the tools to achieve this goal are tenders for the development of specific features, such as the implementation of OpenDocument Format version 1.3, the standard format used by LibreOffice and other applications. So we are looking for tender ideas and proposals to improve LibreOffice – let us know what you think.

On May 12 and 13, the esLibre Conference took place in Zaragoza, Spain and the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community took the opportunity to meet in person and talk about the project.

Ever heard the term “scratching your own itch”? Wiktionary describes it as “doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem”. In the world of free and open source software development, this happens a lot! Anyone can contribute to FOSS projects like LibreOffice, and help to improve them. And that’s exactly what Rafael Lima did, with a long-standing limitation in LibreOffice. Here’s what he had to say.

Emiliano Vavassori, Deputy Chairperson in The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, give us an update on recent events in Italy.

The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2023! Find out the improvements and new features that students will be working on.

And finally, we welcomed Khaled Hosny to the team at TDF. He’ll focusing on improving LibreOffice’s language support, making the software more accessible to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!

Welcome Khaled Hosny, new Developer at TDF

2023-05-302023-05-30

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite. Recently, TDF decided to expand its small team with a new Developer, focusing on improving LibreOffice’s language support. This will help to make the software more accessible to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The new Developer is Khaled Hosny, so let’s hear from him…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I’m a software developer based in Cairo, Egypt. My area of expertise is centered around written language; fonts, text layout in general and so-called “complex” text layout in particular (I don’t like how some text layout is signaled out as being complex – all text layout is complex, but some complexity is obvious right away while others are more subtle), PDF, and so on.

I have been involved with FOSS since 2006. I started with doing Arabic localization, then Arabic fonts, and a few years later I started programming to fix Arabic bugs (I think my first patch was to fix a right-to-left UI issue for Sugar, the desktop environment for the OLPC XO laptop, if anyone still remembers it). I contributed and continue to contribute to many FOSS projects – Firefox, GNOME, HarfBuzz, XeTeX, LuaTeX, to name some.

I got involved with LibreOffice in early 2011, and I have been lurking around since then.

I’m also a type designer and font engineer. I have designed and built a few Arabic and math fonts (I can’t read much of the math notation – I was taught math in Arabic notation and I hardly remember any of that either, but I’m fascinated by the 2D nature of math typesetting).

Funnily enough, I had no formal training in any of this, I actually graduated from medical school and worked as a doctor for few years before quitting to focus on a software career (I was already deep into localization and fonts while still at medical school).

Improved glyph positioning of artificial italic text, especially combining marks – implemented by Khaled in LibreOffice 7.5

What’s your new role at TDF?

I’m joining the team as a LibreOffice developer focusing on areas of right-to-left and the aforementioned so-called “complex” text layout. These are some of the underserved areas of LibreOffice development while disproportionately affecting a very large group of (existing and potential) users.

I hope my role at TDF will help to widen the LibreOffice community, attract more people to it, and make it accessible to more users.

What will you be working on?

I will be fixing bugs and implementing features related to right-to-left text layout and user interface issues which affect languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, as well as text layout issues involving writing systems that require more involved text layout, like Arabic script, and the Indic group of scripts.

I will be also working on fonts, PDF export (text extraction from PDF is major pain point for many scripts), and related areas.

I’m also looking forward to mentoring new developers interested in working on any of these areas.

Do you have any tips for new developers, who’re eager to get involved with the LibreOffice codebase?

LibreOffice is a large code base and can be overwhelming, so try to read any existing documentation as much as possible, don’t be afraid to ask for help, and in general be patient.

We’re really happy to have Khaled on board! Follow this blog and our Mastodon and Twitter accounts for updates on his work – plus more news from the LibreOffice community.

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