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Annual Report 2019: Marketing community activities

(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)

Ongoing Marketing Activities

Marketing at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice is a large team effort, with contractors paid for their activity – thanks to the money made available by our generous

New Czech translation of Getting Started Guide 6.4

Zdenek Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The Czech translation of the LibreOffice 6.4 Getting Started guide is now available! The history behind this book is quite long: first, another team translated the version 4.2 guide in 2014, but they never fully finished it (didn’t do corrections,

Community Member Monday: Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman

Today we’re talking to Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman from our Malaysian community. He’s a long-time fan of free and open source software, and is helping with LibreOffice advocacy and marketing…

To start off, tell us a bit about yourself!

I’m from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I started exploring and using FOSS way back in

LibreOffice Weekly Clippings – July 13, 2020

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: ‘LibreOffice will always be free software’

LibreOffice 7: Why a paid enterprise edition could be a positive change

On the Personal Edition Controversy, LibreOffice Board Assures the Community That it Will Remain Free Software Forever

Marketing plan draft: Discussion about options available, and timetable

Lothar Becker, Chairman of The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, writes:

Dear community,

thanks for the feedback on the marketing plan draft via different channels so far. We want to let you know and have you take part, as the board is discussing the options now available with that draft.

In the meantime, some more feedback will

Quick video tutorial: Starting LibreOffice and its modules on Windows 10

Videos created by our community are a great way to spread the word about LibreOffice, and help new users to get the most out of the software. This video, from Harald Berger, summarises the different ways to start LibreOffice 6.4 – and its various modules – under Windows 10: