
Today we’re talking to Shivam Kumar Singh, who has been working on new LibreOffice features as part of the Google Summer of Code…
To start with, tell us a bit about yourself!
I am a undergraduate Engineering student at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology in Shibpur, India. Currently I am in my pre-final year, and for the last two years have been involved in development and all things tech-related.…
FOSDEM 2021 will be a virtual event, taking place online on Saturday, February 6, and Sunday, February 7 (https://fosdem.org/2021/). The LibreOffice DevRoom is scheduled for Sunday, February 7, from 9AM to 7PM (times to be confirmed).
NEW RULES FOR 2021
- The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET).
- Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event
- Q/A session will be live
- A facility will be provided for people watching to chat amongst themselves
- A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
December 27: Submission deadline
December 31: Announcement of selected talks
January 4: Publication of DevRoom schedule
January 15: Presentations upload deadline
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are inviting proposals for talks about LibreOffice or the ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy.…

At the beginning of November, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs? Check it out…
Great work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. We’re hugely thankful for your contributions – and, of course, everyone who’s listed on the page can get a sticker pack.…

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- November kicked off with a new Month of LibreOffice. This is a campaign we run twice a year, in which we award sticker packs (and the chance to win some bonus merchandise) to all contributors in the LibreOffice project.
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Are you using Apache OpenOffice? Have you recently tried to open a .odt, .ods or .odp file and received this error message? “This document was created by a newer version of OpenOffice. It may contain features not supported by your current version.”

In this case, the document probably wasn’t created in OpenOffice, but in LibreOffice, a successor project.…