Community Member Monday: Cathy Crumbley

At our recent LibreOffice Conference in Tirana, Albania, we invited community members across the globe to join us. Cathy Crumbley from Massachusetts, USA, has recently been involved in the documentation project, and flew over to meet us. Here’s what she had to say:


Tirana on the Move

I was surprised and grateful to be invited to attend the conference in Tirana.…

It’s the final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2018…

…and if you haven’t yet been awarded a sticker pack, you still have a few days to get involved, help to improve LibreOffice, and join our friendly community! Here’s how it works:

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The Municipality of Tirana moves to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice

Berlin, November 22, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that the Municipality of Tirana, the biggest in Albania, is moving to open source software and open standards by migrating to LibreOffice. The project is a further step in a large deployment of open source technologies in the city’s IT infrastructure, and follows the successful migration to Nextcloud.…

Coming up on November 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 Beta 1

LibreOffice 6.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early February, 2019 – see the release notes describing the new features here. LibreOffice 6.2 will include a new (optional!) user interface design called the Notebookbarsee here for some screenshots. You can help us to test it, and make it super reliable!…

Quick report: LinuxDays and OpenAlt in Czech Republic

Want to help spread the word about LibreOffice, free software and open standards? Attend a local computing event, and tell people about it! Stanislav Horáček writes about some recent events in the Czech Republic…

With our LibreOffice booth, Zdeněk Crhonek and I attended the two biggest Czech FOSS events, LinuxDays in Prague and OpenAlt in Brno.

Quick report: LibreOffice 6.2 Bug Hunting Session in Ankara, Turkey

Our community is working on LibreOffice 6.2, which is due to be released in early February 2019! While developers are adding new features, other community members are helping to test them, in the form of Bug Hunting Sessions. You can learn more about these on our Quality Assurance blog, and in the meantime, here’s a quick report from an in-person session in Ankara, Turkey…

Here’s what Muhammet Kara, who helped to organise the event, had to say:

Eight people (including one remotely from Istanbul) participated in our live session in Ankara, and we tested LibreOffice 6.2 Alpha on Linux, Windows and macOS.