Today we’re announcing a new project: LibreOffice New Generation. This isn’t about the software, but about the people behind it. As you probably know, LibreOffice is made by a worldwide community of certified developers and volunteers, working on the source code, translations, documentation, design, QA, marketing, infrastructure and other areas.…
Introducing the ScriptForge Basic Libraries
The arrival of the ScriptForge Libraries will greatly help macro programming in LibreOffice.
By Jean-Pierre Ledure
What is ScriptForge?
ScriptForge libraries are an extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic macros. Users familiar with other BASIC macro variants often face hard times to dig into the extensive LibreOffice Application Programming Interface even for the simplest operations.…
The round-the-world trip to fix a bug
A little story: The beauty of planet-wide collaborative work in LibreOffice
Mrs. Vera Cavalcante (@veracape), from Brazil, a long-time contributor for the Portuguese documentation on LibreOffice, was reviewing the translation of the Calc Guide and double-checking the translated text, with respect to the current user interface and the Help pages. Vera noticed that the Help pages on conditional formatting were not correct any more, and reported in the Brazilian team Telegram group (Bugzilla is still very hard for non-native English speakers).…
Community Member Monday: Felipe Viggiano and Zhenghua Fong
Today we’re talking to two people who’ve recently decided to become members of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. First up, Felipe Viggiano…
Hey Felipe, tell us a bit about yourself!
Hello there! I’m writing from the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. I’m an electrical engineer and have been working with LibreOffice for several years.…
Join the LibreOffice Team as a Developer Community Architect (m/f/d), 20-40h per week, remote (#202101-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading open source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community, especially as we are about to enter the second decade of our project.…
New Year, New Calc Guide for Brazilians and Portuguese-speaking Users
(Translation from this post)
2020 was an terrible year.
We started the year with the expectation of an intense activity in LibreOffice but we were caught by the worst pandemic in centuries.