Joining a free and open source software project, such as LibreOffice, is a great way to build your skills, gain experience for future career options, meet new people – and have fun!
But sometimes, joining a large and well-established project can be a bit daunting at the start. So here we’ll introduce you to the small team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.…
By Dave Barton
In recent times, the very small LibreOffice Documentation Team has been making real progress in revising and updating the user guides:
Release 6.4 |
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.…
Love LibreOffice? Want to let more people know about it? An effective (and easy) way is to add a mention of the software to your email signature. This is the piece of text that’s automatically added to emails that you send, and typically includes some information about your job, or other contact details.
Many people also use their email signatures (aka “sigs”) to spread the word about causes they support – such as free and open source software projects.…
Organizers of the online openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference are pleased to announce that the schedule for the conference is published.
All times on the schedule are published in Coordinated Universal Time. The conference will take place from live Oct. 15 to Oct. 17 using the oslo.gonogo.live platform.
There are more than 100 talks scheduled, covering the openSUSE and LibreOffice projects.…
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…
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.…