LibreOffice Weekly Clippings – May 15, 2020
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9to5 Linux: LibreOffice 7.0 Now Available for Public Testing, Final Release Coming in Early August
Phoronix: LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering
Small Tech News: LibreOffice 7.0 First Release: Enhanced Compatibility with Microsoft Office Documents
Softpedia News: First LibreOffice 7.0 Version Is Now Available for Download
Interesting
ZDnet: Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again
…Month of LibreOffice, May 2020 – Two weeks in!
Two weeks ago, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, saying thanks to contributors from our worldwide community. Everyone who helps out with our projects this month can claim a cool sticker pack at the end – and also has a chance to win a hoodie, T-shirt or mug!
So far 259 sticker packs have been awarded – click the link to see if your name/username is in the list.…
Annual Report 2019: The Document Foundation’s activities
(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)
2019 was a busy year for The Document Foundation, with elections for the Chairperson and Deputy, new staff members, and other activities.
Election of new TDF Board of Directors
The Board of Directors (or “BoD”) is the Foundation’s Board of Directors, the main administration of the Foundation’s projects and teams.…
LibreOffice Tuesday T&T: Windows Installation Issues
According to our estimates, worldwide there are around 150 million LibreOffice users on Windows. And when we say worldwide we mean worldwide, as according to the origin of downloads we have users in every continent including Antarctica.
As a consequence, we get a large amount of questions related to LibreOffice on Windows. Many of these questions are about the installation process, because there are several issues which prevent the user to get the expected positive user experience.…
LibreOffice is a hot target for the Google Season of Docs 2020
For the second year in a row, The Document Foundation has been accepted as an organization in the Google Season of Docs, a programme whose goals are to give technical writers an opportunity to participate in contributing to open source projects, and to give open source projects an opportunity to engage the technical writing community.…
Community Member Monday: Marco Marinello
Today we’re talking to Marco Marinello from the Italian LibreOffice community, who recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I live in Bolzano, which is a small city in the northernmost part of Italy. My main interests are robotics and computer technology.…