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LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2022

After two years of pandemic restrictions, more and more in-person events are now taking place. Members of the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2022 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions.

Thorsten Behrens, Chairperson of The Document Foundation’s (TDF) Board of Directors, said: “The event was super, and it was great to talk to people in-person again.”

Lothar Becker, who served on the Board from 2020 to 2022, added:

The representation of TDF and the LibreOffice project at the event, along with partners, was very well received – and perceived as important in terms of digital sovereignty, both for users and other projects and providers. Intensive discussions for the first time – also in person again – especially regarding integration topics, and the role of TDF, were very encouraging and motivating for all after the long period of the pandemic. The evening then offered the opportunity to continue these discussions in a more informal atmosphere.

Let’s wrap up with a couple more pictures from the event. We plan to attend many more this year – keep an eye on this blog for updates!

Indonesian LibreOffice community: recent activities

Rania Amina from the Indonesian LibreOffice community writes:

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022, I had the opportunity to talk in one of the sessions at the Virtual Visit of SMK Amaliah 1 Ciawi Bogor. This activity is a routine agenda for Amaliah Vocational School in the form of seminars and visits to institutions or communities to broaden students’ knowledge of Information and Communication Technology to Support Creative and Innovative Education.

I represent the Indonesian LibreOffice community, given the opportunity to provide material for the activities. The topic that I conveyed revolves around LibreOffice and FOSS in general, and how the open source community ecosystem can be well developed so that it can be a space for self-development before pursuing a career in that field.

This event was held virtually, starting at 08:00 WIB (Western Indonesian Time/GMT+7) until 12:00 WIB, with around 90 participants. The enthusiasm of the participants in this activity was quite high, considering that apparently both LibreOffice and FOSS were new things for the students. On this occasion, I also conveyed to them to never hesitate to start contributing, both in the coding and non-coding spheres, for example as testers, bug hunters, making designs for promotions in their environment, creating events related to LibreOffice, and more.

We hope that – after this activity – LibreOffice ID will collaborate again with Amaliah Vocational School to organize offline activities in the future.

Many thanks to Rania and the community for their great work! Learn more here.

Videos from FOSDEM ’22 – LibreOffice Technology devroom – now available

FOSDEM is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development – and one of the biggest such events of its kind. This year, it took place online again, due to the pandemic.

Many LibreOffice community volunteers and certified developers gave talks at the conference, and now the videos are available for all to see! So if you want to learn more about LibreOffice technology, open standards and community activities, click the link below and enjoy.

Explore the talks and watch the videos

LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2022 – February 5-6

FOSDEM is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development – and one of the biggest such events of its kind. Normally it takes place in Brussels, but due to the pandemic, it’ll be online this year.

And the LibreOffice community will be there! We’ll have 25 talks about the technology behind the suite, open standards, and other topics.

See a full list of the talks here, and join us!

LibreOffice Community at the Open Source Experience 2021

Sophie Gautier reports from the recent Open Source Experience event in Paris:

It’s been a long time since we had a LibreOffice booth at a live event, so we really appreciated having the opportunity to meet again in in early November! Jean-Michel Coste, Régis Perdreau, Christophe Cazin, Italo Vignoli and I were present at the booth to answer questions from visitors and companies from the ecosystem. A big thank you to the team for their presence!

Our discussions with other FLOSS associations were fruitful, and the ambiance in the FLOSS Village was full of joy and events (there was a quick where people could win books and even a scooter).

We look forward for the next OSXP in 2022!

Thanks to Sophie and the French-speaking community for taking part! And indeed, hopefully we’ll be able to meet at more in-person events early next year…

Coming up on July 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1

LibreOffice 7.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in mid-August 2021 – see the release notes describing the new features here.

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing a Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 1 on Monday July 19, 2021. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows.

Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular version (LibreOffice 7.2.0 RC1) will be available until the beginning of August when LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 will be released. Check the Release Plan.

All details of the first bug hunting session are available on the wiki.

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