LibreOffice is made by a worldwide community of volunteers, certified developers and many other people. Every summer, we participate in the Google Summer of Code programme: this is focused on introducing contributors to open source software development, and last year LibreOffice received a bunch of new features and improvements thanks to the work of several contributors.…
Following our appearance on the Sustain FOSS podcast, Heiko Tietze from The Document Foundation talked on the sister Sustain Design podcast about mentoring designers in the LibreOffice project, and other UI/UX topics.
Sustain is a podcast that “brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem – we have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community.”
Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, appeared on a recent episode of the podcast to talk about the LibreOffice community and long-term sustainable development.…
Berlin, March 10, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.2.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.2 family, targeted at desktop productivity, is available from from the download page.
End user support is provided by volunteers via email and online resources: community support. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos.…
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech LibreOffice docs team has finished its translation of the Base Guide 6.4. As usual it was a team effort, namely: translations by Petr Kuběj and Zdeněk Crhonek; revisions by Marcela Tomešová, Martin Kasper, Zdeněk Crhonek and Jan Martinovský; localised pictures by Roman Toman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek.
Berlin, March 3, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. This version provides a solution to several LibreOffice 7.3 bugs, including the Auto Calculate regression on Calc, the crashes running Calc when lacking AVX instructions and the crashes related to the Skia graphic engine on macOS.…
