Today is International Volunteer Day. All around the world, volunteers give their time and energy to help many different causes – including free and open source software projects like LibreOffice.
Indeed, LibreOffice wouldn’t be where it is today, without the incredibly valuable help of hundreds of volunteers in the last decade. So to everyone who has contributed to our project and community over the years, we at The Document Foundation want to say a big thank you!…
At the beginning of November, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs throughout the month? Check it out…
Congratulations to everyone who’s on that page – and thanks so much for your contributions. It’s great to see such a passionate community helping to bring powerful, free and open source software to the world.…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
- We got started with the Month of LibreOffice, November 2019. This is a campaign that we run every six months, crediting contributions all across the project. Everyone who helps the LibreOffice community during November can claim a sticker pack, and has a chance to win a cool glass mug.
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LibreOffice community members attend many events around the world to spread the word about the software, encourage people to get involved, and have fun! We’re really grateful for all their efforts. On November 2 and 3, the OpenFest 2019 took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Gabriele Ponzo was there. Here’s his report:
What was the event about?
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Towards the end of the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain, we had a series of “lightning talks” – that is, quick presentations on various topics. Here’s the video, skip ahead for:
- 00:03 – Unicode in 5 minutes (Ivan Sanchez Ortega)
- 08:10 – Archiving important wiki content (Dennis Roczek)
- 16:05 – GDB tips and tricks (Ashod Nakashian)
- 24:19 – How to find bad synonyms in translations (Koji Annoura)
- 35:06 – Reproducible builds in LibreOffice (Bjoern Michaelsen)
- 41:08 – Replicating Rapid Prototyper (Michael Meeks)
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