(Translated from the Spanish original.)
Juan C. Sanz writes:
The Firebird database is distinguished by its unique features within the LibreOffice Base compatible database ecosystem. Why do I consider Firebird to be special? Because it is the only database engine that supports all possible forms of connection in Base and also allows the creation of both
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully, plus one project mentored under Linux Foundation. Contributors and
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2024.
LibreOffice’s localisation community translates the software’s user interface, along with its documentation and websites.
Julia Spitters, Heiko Tietze and Sophie Gautier ran a survey among members of the localisation teams to learn what tools are used, how they engage in workflows, and what future developments they
Today is Document Freedom Day, which raises awareness of how open standards and open document formats provide us with the freedom to read and write as we wish:
Remember when you were sent an important file that your computer couldn’t read properly? Remember having to buy or download
ODF is the Open Document Format, the native format used by LibreOffice (and supported by many other apps too). It has various sub-formats such as .odt for text files, .ods for spreadsheets, and .odp for presentations.
Meanwhile, the ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that