Category: LibreOffice

At the beginning of May, we started 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…

Fantastic! This makes it the most successful Month of LibreOffice ever, slightly overtaking the results from May 2020.

Great 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: 10 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 – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

• Michael Warner
• Jorge Gustavo Rocha
• Roland Kurmann
• Astur
• Alessandro Volturno
• Harshita Nag
• Érico Nogueira
• Chris Shaw
• Wanderer
• María del Mar

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 in November, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…

• Right on the first day of May, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, showing our thanks to everyone involved in the LibreOffice project and community. Everyone who contributes during the month can get a sticker pack – and a chance to win extra merch. We’ll announce the full winners here in the next few days!

• Throughout the month, we posted various sections from our Annual Report 2020: LibreOffice Conference, Design Community work, and Native Language Projects. In addition, we published the final PDF version, so check it out to read all the sections in one nice bundle!

• Did you know that you can work with 3D objects in LibreOffice? Long-time community member Regina Henschel wrote a tutorial showing how to make a 3D globe, using a map and a sphere. Rather neat…

• In May, TDF announced two bugfix updates for LibreOffice: 7.0.6 and 7.1.3. This marks the last release of the 7.0 branch – from here on, we will be maintaining the LibreOffice 7.1 series.

• Meanwhile, the PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work, showing how PPTX presentations are imported more accurately into recent versions of LibreOffice. Of course, when you’re working on a presentation in LibreOffice, its best to use its native format – OpenDocument.

• Over in the Documentation community, there were some great updates in May: the Impress Guide 7.0 in Portuguese, the Calc Guide 7.1, and printed versions of various handbooks. A huge thanks to everyone in the docs team for all their work!

• LibreOffice is free and open source software, available for anyone to use, modify and share – and that will always be the case. At the same time, we really appreciate the contributions of companies in the wider LibreOffice ecosystem, who sell long-term support (LTS) versions and other benefits, and add many features to the codebase. So spread awareness of them, we’ve set up some LinkedIn pages for the “LibreOffice Enterprise” brands.

• Later in the month, talked to Hüseyin GÜÇ from the Turkish LibreOffice community. He recently became a Member of The Document Foundation, and is helping to raise awareness of the OpenDocument Format.

• The Google Summer of Code begins! This is a programme that connects students with free and open source software projects.We announced the list of selected projects – and we’re really looking forward to seeing the results. Good luck to all the students, and thanks to the mentors for helping them!

• And finally, a couple of administrative things. TDF announced a tender to implement the new TDF Membership Committee’s web-based tooling. Also, we’re moving to Libera.Chat as the host for our IRC channels, which are used for communication in many LibreOffice sub-projects.

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