Fundraising, December 1st

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LibreOffice monthly recap: November 2018

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

  • At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the community! Everyone who took part in the LibreOffice project during November can claim a cool sticker pack – see here for the details. If you didn’t get a sticker, don’t worry – we plan to have another Month of LibreOffice is May next year!

LibreOffice localisation sprint: Bengali

LibreOffice’s localisation communities translate the software’s user interface and documentation. They help to make a powerful office suite available to millions of people around the world, in over 100 languages! Biraj Karkamar reports on a recent localisation event in India:

Ten people participated in our sprint in Kolkata, on November 11. We made contributions together for the Bengali-India locale.

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.…