The round-the-world trip to fix a bug

A little story: The beauty of planet-wide collaborative work in LibreOffice Mrs. Vera Cavalcante (@veracape), from Brazil, a long-time contributor for the Portuguese documentation on LibreOffice, was reviewing the translation of the Calc Guide and double-checking the translated text, with respect to the current user interface and the Help pages.

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Community Member Monday: Felipe Viggiano and Zhenghua Fong

Today we’re talking to two people who’ve recently decided to become members of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. First up, Felipe Viggiano… Hey Felipe, tell us a bit about yourself! Hello there! I’m writing from the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. I’m an electrical engineer and have

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Czech translation of LibreOffice Calc Guide 6.4

Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: It’s a bit late for the Christmas gift , but we finished translation of the Calc guide 6.4. As usual it was team work, namely: Translations: Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Zuzana Pitříková Text corrections: Marcela Tomešová and Vendula Crhonková

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Best Community 2020: LibreOffice at DINAcon

At the recent online DINAcon (Digital Sustainability Conference) in Switzerland, Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation gave a talk about how TDF and the LibreOffice community works. And guess what: our community won an award at DINAcon too: Best Community 2020! We’re really proud to have such an active, passionate

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