Twenty years ago, on July 19, 2000, Sun Microsystems announced at O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, California, the release of the source code of its StarOffice Suite to the open source community. Thus began the history of the community that helped grow the OpenOffice project for nearly ten years, until the announcement of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.…
18 Jul 2020
20 Years of the FOSS Office Suite
16 Jul 2020
Annual Report 2019: Marketing community activities
(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)
Ongoing Marketing Activities
Marketing at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice is a large team effort, with contractors paid for their activity – thanks to the money made available by our generous donors – and several volunteers, carrying out actions both at global and local levels to increase visibility and brand awareness.…
15 Jul 2020
New Czech translation of Getting Started Guide 6.4
Zdenek Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech translation of the LibreOffice 6.4 Getting Started guide is now available! The history behind this book is quite long: first, another team translated the version 4.2 guide in 2014, but they never fully finished it (didn’t do corrections, publishing etc.) Then they started to update for version 5.1, but never finished the translation.
14 Jul 2020
Announcing elections for the next TDF Membership Committee
Franklin Weng from The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors writes:
Dear Community,
we hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Membership Committee of The Document Foundation.
As per § 12 II of our statutes (binding version in German and non-binding translation), the Membership Committee’s term lasts two years. The current Membership Committee started its duty on September 19, 2018.…
13 Jul 2020
Community Member Monday: Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
Today we’re talking to Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman from our Malaysian community. He’s a long-time fan of free and open source software, and is helping with LibreOffice advocacy and marketing…
To start off, tell us a bit about yourself!
I’m from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I started exploring and using FOSS way back in 2004 (Debian, Red Hat, the BSD family and sticking with Ubuntu till today) when I was studying at the university.…
12 Jul 2020
LibreOffice Weekly Clippings – July 13, 2020
LibreOffice 7: Why a paid enterprise edition could be a positive change
LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite
The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice 7.0’s “Personal Edition” Branding
LibreOffice Might Delay Its “Personal Edition” Branding Or Change To “Community Edition”
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