The Document Foundation has supported the Cuban LibreOffice community, represented by Carlos Parra Zaldivar, for the Document Freedom Day 2018 in Holguín, on the opening day of the International Book Exhibition in the local library Biblioteca Provincial “Alex Urquiola”. LibreOffice is included in the Cuban GNU/Linux distribution Nova, and as such is part of the IT syllabus in all schools.…
11 Apr 2018
LibreOffice contributor interview: Edmund Laugasson
LibreOffice is being used in governments and companies around the world, and this is largely thanks to support and advocacy from local communities and developers. Today we’re talking to Edmund Laugasson, a member of the Estonian LibreOffice community, who is promoting the software and the Open Document Format (ODF) in his country…
How popular is Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and LibreOffice in Estonia?…
06 Apr 2018
Report of LibreOffice Conference Indonesia
I have attended LibreOffice Conference Indonesia on Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26. The event, hosted by Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya (PENS), has been the first of its kind in South East Asia, and I hope it will be followed by many similar events in other countries in the region. Of course, the concept of local LibreOffice Conferences in Asia has been launched by the Japanese community, which is a leading example of commitment.…
05 Apr 2018
LibreOffice 6.0.3 now available for download
Berlin, April 5, 2018 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 6.0.3, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 6 family, with around 70 bug and regression fixes.
LibreOffice 6.0.3 represents the bleeding edge in terms of features and as such is targeted at early adopters, tech-savvy and power users, while LibreOffice 5.4.6 – provided as an alternative download option – is targeted at mainstream users and enterprise deployments.…
29 Mar 2018
LibreOffice monthly recap: March 2018
There’s so much going on in the LibreOffice project – in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. So at the end of each month we’ll be posting summaries of recent activities and updates, to help you get an overview of what’s going on. Here’s what happened in March…
- LibreOffice 5.4.6 was released, with almost 60 bug and regression fixes.
27 Mar 2018
Document Freedom Day 2018
Today is Document Freedom Day (DFD) 2018, an annual event to celebrate and raise awareness about Open Standards scheduled on the last Wednesday of March. Document Freedom Day was first celebrated on 26 March 2008. Since 2016, Document Freedom Day is organised by a team of volunteers of the Digital Freedom Foundation. It was previously organised by the Free Software Foundation Europe.…