By Dave Barton
In recent times, the very small LibreOffice Documentation Team has been making real progress in revising and updating the user guides:
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Release 6.4
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Release 7.0
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| Calc Guide |
Published |
Work in progress |
| Base Guide |
Published |
Work in progress |
| Draw Guide |
Published |
Work in progress |
| Impress Guide |
Skipped |
Work in progress |
| Math Guide |
Published |
Awaiting volunteer contributors |
| Writer Guide |
Published |
Awaiting volunteer contributors |
| Getting Started Guide |
Published |
Awaiting volunteer contributors |
While this progress in shortened documentation development time is fairly good, it can be substantially improved by having more contributors on the team.…
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This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) a global programme focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. We ran six projects – and all were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 7.1 in early February 2021!…
Today we’re talking to Pranam Lashkari from our Indian community, who is working in the LibreOffice ecosystem at Collabora, improving the web-based version of the suite…
First off, tell us a bit about yourself!
Pranam! (It means namaste, and yes, that’s my name too 😂). I live in Rajkot, a city in the middle of the state of Gujarat in India.…
Do you work in a school, college or university? Perhaps you’re involved in local community events, and want to help spread the word about LibreOffice? Or maybe you work at a local library or non-profit that could benefit from learning about free and open source software. Well, we have some of these magazines to give away:
Discover LibreOffice is a complete guide to the suite, with extra articles about OpenDocument, migrations, the community and more.…
