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Youth Hacking 4 Freedom – from the Free Software Foundation Europe


(Graphic by Lisa Schmidt, CC-BY-SA 4.0 or later)

The Free Software Foundation Europe is starting a new competition:

Are you up to hacking on a software project of your choice? Do you want to meet like-minded people of your age from around Europe? What about getting the chance to receive one of our cash awards and to travel to Brussels to meet the other winners and great people from the Free Software movement? Then join the YH4F competition! The only conditions for you to join are that you are 14-18 years old and you live in Europe. Start by registering before Sunday, 31 October 2021.

There’ll be an online event on Sunday, 10 October at 17:00 CET – see the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom page for more info, and details on registering.

And there’s more: Thorsten Behrens from The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors is on the jury. So, if you fill the requirements listed above and want to get hacking on a project, join in!

Recap of the Hybrid LibreOffice Conference 2021 in Hamburg

Recently, our LibreOffice Conference 2021 took place – and online, due to the ongoing pandemic situation. But some members of the German community organized a small “hybrid” event in Hamburg! Thorsten Behrens reports:

My personal impression: it was really important to meet in person again. I enjoyed it very much, even if it was perhaps not quite ideal for the quality of the presentations. On the other hand, I found the feeling of having a real audience in front of me incredibly good and surprisingly different. I still have a few ideas to make the hybrid experience much better.

Although there are still some pandemic restrictions in place, we hope to participate in more in-person events starting early next year. There will be more updates on this blog! And here are a few photos from the event…

10 more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

We recently posted the first batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021. Now, here are some more! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2021

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!

  • The biggest event in September for was the LibreOffice Conference 2021! It had to take place online again this year, due to the pandemic, but we still had hundreds of people around the world joining our live streams and taking part in the discussions. We’ve also started uploading videos of the talks with more to come – stay tuned to this blog!

  • On September 28, we celebrated our 11th anniversary. After 11 years, the project and its global community are amongst the largest in the FLOSS ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology sets the development path for personal productivity.

  • During the month, we had updates to the 7.1 and 7.2 branches of LibreOffice, fixing bugs and improving compatibility. LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16, while LibreOffice 7.1.6 arrived on September 9.

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!

Check out the new LibreOffice Development Blog!

Here on The Document Foundation’s blog, we post about general news and activities in the LibreOffice world. But now we have a dedicated development blog, set up by Hossein Nourikhah, who recently joined us as a Developer Community Architect.

Click here to view the first post

Hossein and others will post more updates in the coming weeks and months, helping new developers to get started with the LibreOffice codebase, and providing other insights.

Also check out our other blogs: Design and QA

Fixing a LibreOffice bug in less than eight hours!

LibreOffice’s QA community works on identifying, testing and fixing bug reports from users around the world. Gabriele Ponzo, a long-time LibreOffice contributors and part of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee, tells us about how a bug was recently fixed in just under eight hours:

I’m particularly used to keyboard usage of LibreOffice, and thus I noticed that something I did really often wasn’t working anymore: searching backwards with the Find Toolbar. At least not in the way I used to do it: hitting Shift+Enter after having typed the text to be searched.

So I tried several times and then decided to submit a bug. I’m not new in bug reporting, and several bugs that I’ve reported in the past were solved, sooner or later.

But this time, I was surprised by the resolution speed: less than eight hours!

Obviously this is just one particular and very positive case, but it deserves to be highlighted – since it’s a sign of how strong the activity is in our community.

A big thank you goes to Caolán McNamara, in this case, but to the whole community that I’m proud to represent when I speak in public, being part of it, and also part of the TDF governance.

Great work, Gabriele and Caolán! See here for the bug report and the steps that were taken to resolve it. And to all LibreOffice users: if you’ve found something in LibreOffice that isn’t working as expected, you can give our QA community a hand by submitting your own report. Thanks!

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