LibreOffice’s QA (Quality Assurance) community helps to identify and fix bugs in the software. 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.
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LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and many members of this community live in German-speaking countries. From 24 to 26 March, some of them met at the Linuxhotel in Essen. There was an informal meeting on Friday evening, while the main discussions started on
In the LibreOffice community, most of our activities take place online: development, design, QA, localisation, marketing and so forth. But we like to meet face-to-face too, at events and conferences – and last weekend we did just that, at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2023 in
Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions. Lothar summarised the event:
It was well attended. Many known contacts, as well as new visitors,
FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects. After two years of online events due to the pandemic, it’s back in-person, in Brussels on February 4 and 5!
And, of course, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation will be there. Our stand will
Great activities in the Indonesian LibreOffice community! They got in touch and gave us a quick summary:
LibreOffice’s Indonesian community collaborated with the Organizing Committee of the Indonesia Linux Conference 2022, to hold a short presentation, “Implementation of LibreOffice in the Ecosystem at a University”.
This event