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… Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m from Modena, Italy and I’m still living in this city. I’m just a normal free software user – a
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
We use our website, blogs and social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join the LibreOffice community (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.) Social media In January 2020, our Twitter
Next week, Hossein Nourikhah will join the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, as Developer Community Architect. Hossein is a developer, university lecturer and FOSS advocate. He writes programs, teaches programming to students, and is an advocate for the use of free software applications, because they have
Just before the pandemic, the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation approved a budget to launch an educational program targeted to universities, where students at selected tech schools would receive an economic incentive to promote LibreOffice amongst their peers, with the objective of increasing the number of young contributors
We originally posted this tender in April, but we are now extending the application deadline. The deadline for questions stays as in the original tender: June 15, 2021 The deadline for applications has been extended to: June 24, 2021 For all details on the tender, please refer to the original
