(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many.…
The Document Foundation is pleased to announce that LibreOffice’s native document format – the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) 1.3 – has been approved as OASIS Standard with 14 affirmative consents and no objections. ODF is a free, open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical elements.…
Our next LibreOffice Conference will take place from September 23-25, 2021 (and it’ll be online, due to the ongoing pandemic situation). LibreOffice developers, supporters and users from around the world will share their work, ideas and suggestions. And we’ll have fun with online social events and more!
But we need a logo. For last year’s conference, we had a competition and Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia won with this great design, which includes the openSUSE logo too, as it was a joint conference:
So, got some ideas for this year’s conference?…
Today we’re chatting with Manuel Frassinetti from our Italian LibreOffice community, who recently became a Member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice…
I’m from Modena, Italy and I’m still living in this city. I’m just a normal free software user – a GNU/Linux user since 2001.…
While waiting for the official publication of ODF (OpenDocument) 1.3 as an OASIS Standard, after the approval of the ODF Technical Committee Draft at the end of April 2021, there are a few news updates from the ODF TC which are worth some publicity.
Since 2020, the ODF TC has two co-chairs – Patrick Durusau and Svante Schubert – and four co-editors: Francis Cave, Patrick Durusau, Svante Schubert and Michael Stahl.…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
In January 2020, our Twitter account had 29,340 followers; by the end of the year, we had grown this to 36,996.…