The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice Conference, which will take place online. The event is scheduled from September 23 to 25, Thursday to Saturday. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, ODF, the Document Liberation Project or the ODF Toolkit, we want to hear from you!…
28 Apr 2021
LibreOffice Conference 2021: Call for Papers is Open!
28 Apr 2021
LibreOffice Macro Team: progress report
Macros help users to automate common tasks in LibreOffice. In September 2019 we announced a new team in our community to work on macro support. The last progress report was published in April 2020, so it is high time to look into what has happened since then.
If you are interested in contributing to the macro team (development, testing or documentation), we’d love to hear from you – please send an email to ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org…
27 Apr 2021
Annual Report: LibreOffice in 2020
In 2020, LibreOffice celebrated its tenth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.)
The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2020: version 6.4 on January 29, and version 7.0 on August 5.…
26 Apr 2021
Community Member Monday: Necdet Yücel
Today we’re talking to Necdet Yücel from the Turkish LibreOffice community, who has been mentoring students and helping them to get involved with LibreOffice…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I have been working as a lecturer at a university for more than 20 years. I teach programming and computer networks courses in the computer engineering department.…
23 Apr 2021
LibreOffice flyers for schools and universities – Help us to hand them out!
Our New Generation project is encouraging new – and especially younger – people to join the LibreOffice community, improve the software, and gain valuable skills.
We’ve created a flyer that can be handed out in schools and universities, and here it is:
Now, we need your help to spread the word! If you study or work in a school or university, we can send you some flyers that you can give to interested people.…
20 Apr 2021
Annual Report: The Document Foundation in 2020
In 2020 we had with elections for the foundation’s Membership Committee, along with regular Advisory Board calls, and support for other projects and activities
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.)
Election of new Membership Committee (MC)
Members – more formally known as the “Board of Trustees” – are a crucial part of The Document Foundation.…