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Open Badges for awesome Brazilian Portuguese contributors!

LibreOffice’s documentation team is driven by volunteers around the world. Today, we want to say a special thanks to members of the Brazilian Portuguese community, who’ve worked hard to translate and update user guides.

So we’re sending out Open Badges – special, customised badges with embedded metadata, describing their achievements. The badges can be verified using an external service, and are a great way to show off contributions and use as proof of participation.

So, here are the badge recipients – we’ve sent them out personally:

  • Vera Cavalcante – For her volunteer collaborations to produce an excellent Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides, and her long-time commitment to LibreOffice from the LibreOffice Magazine times.
  • Luciana Mota – For her valuable contributions to the translation of LibreOffice Help, and the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Marcia Buffon Machado – For her contribution to the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Felipe Viggiano – For his excellent and successful global coordination of the LibreOffice 7.0 and 7.1 User guides; team management; valuable addition to the other LibreOffice 7.x guides; and active collaboration with the Brazilian Documentation Team.
  • Tulio Macedo – For his active participation in the design of the online User Guides and revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guide in Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Rafael Lima – For his active contributions to ScriptForge library development, testing and documentation; his coordination of the LibreOffice 7.0 Math Guide, including the translation to Brazilian Portuguese; and his active translation of the LibreOffice Help to Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Timothy Brennan Jr. – For his active participation in the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Raul Pacheco – For his revisions of the translation of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides to Brazilian Portuguese, and refactoring of the guide’s screenshots and graphics.
  • Jackson Junior – For his active participation in the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.

Huge thanks to all recipients – check your inbox for your badges!

LibreOffice flyer for schools and universities: extra design

Our LibreOffice New Generation project aims to bring new – and especially younger – contributors into the LibreOffice community. Earlier in the year, we created a flyer for schools and universities, and we’ve sent out printed versions to many people around the world.

Now, here’s an alternative design, thanks to Rizal Muttaqin and the Indonesian community! Click the image to get the original SVG file, if you want to make updates and translations (Vegur font required). And if you’d like some printed flyers to hand out in a school or university, drop us a line and let us know…

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Coming up on July 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1

LibreOffice 7.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in mid-August 2021 – see the release notes describing the new features here.

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing a Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 1 on Monday July 19, 2021. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows.

Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular version (LibreOffice 7.2.0 RC1) will be available until the beginning of August when LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 will be released. Check the Release Plan.

All details of the first bug hunting session are available on the wiki.

LibreOffice project monthly recap: June 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…

  • Hossein Nourikhah joined the TDF team as Developer Community Architect. He’ll help to onboard new developers in the project, give them code pointers, and assist them as they add new features. Welcome, Hossein!

  • The LibreOffice Conference 2021 is coming up in September – and you can design the logo for it! Here’s the one from 2020 (the joint conference organised with the openSUSE project) for inspiration…

  • LibreOffice’s Japanese community reported from their Kaigi 2021 Online event. Speakers from around Japan (and Asia) talked about their work and projects. Hopefully in-person events will be possible soon!

  • Companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem contribute valuable things to the project: new features, bugfixes, and long-term support options for enterprise users. At the end of the month, German company allotropia announced that it has joined TDF’s Advisory Board – it provides services, consulting and products around LibreOffice and related open source projects.

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 for everyone!

Online meeting of the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community

Daniel A. Rodriguez from the Hispanic LibreOffice community (and TDF’s Board of Directors) writes:

On Saturday June 26, we held the first virtual meeting of the Hispanic community this year. The activity was attended by several members, who are recognized for their participation and collaboration in the project.

We have opted for a new name for the event, although the same spirit as last year has been maintained. We understand that this modification is in line with what we do every day in the different areas we set up for this purpose: talk about LibreOffice.

In addition, we launched the Spanish channel on Fediverse.tv and the #libreoffice-es room on Libera.Chat. The interaction with the speakers was available through the integrated chat on Fediverse.tv, IRC (either with a client or through the web interface), or from the Hispanic group on Telegram.

As always, it was an open activity, free of charge and aimed at anyone interested in the office suite par excellence of free software. The event could be attended live from 16:00 UTC through the Spanish channel on Fediverse.tv.

Almost immediately after each presentation, the video was made available through the chosen platform. Fediverse.tv is based on PeerTube, which is an open source, decentralized, federated web application that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce the load on individual servers when viewing videos.

Thanks to Daniel and the community for organising the event! Videos from the talks are available here. We hope to have more events in the coming months – and, of course, there’s the LibreOffice Conference 2021 coming up in September!

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Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

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