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Nepal: LibreOffice localisation event on Software Freedom Day 2019

Thanks to our worldwide community, LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages. Volunteers help to translate the software, documentation and website – and on Software Freedom Day, the Nepalese LibreOffice community organised a localisation event. Sanjog Sidgel reports:

Title: LibreOffice L10N, organised by Kathmandu University Open Source Community on Software Freedom Day 2019
Organizer: Kathmandu University Open Source Community, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
Date: September 21st, 2019
Focus: LibreOffice English to Nepali Localization
Hosted by: Sanjog Sigdel & Saroj Dhakal
Duration: 1 hour
Outcome: 14 new volunteers signed up; we presented the guidelines for doing the translations; and together we translated around 376 text strings into the Nepali language in an hour.

I would like to give a shout out to Mr. Anil Shrestha, Co-ordinator of Kathmandu University Open Source Community and his working committee, for making this Software Freedom Day 2019 a grand success.

The Document Foundation says a big thanks to Sanjog, Saroj and everyone else for taking part – your efforts are really appreciated! Because of your help, millions of people around the world can benefit from free, open and standardised productivity tools, in many languages. Cheers!

Videos from LibreOffice Conference 2019: OpenDocument Format

LibreOffice can open documents in many formats, including Microsoft Office files (.docx, .xlxs, .pptx). But it’s native file format is the fully open and standardised OpenDocument Format (ODF). At the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Spain, community members gave presentations about news and updates for ODF. So, here are the first videos from the presentations (use headphones for best audio quality).

Firstly, Marina Latini and Italo Vignoli explain the COSM project – the Community of ODF Specification Maintainers:

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Version 1.3 of the ODF specification is being developed, and Michael Stahl provides some technical background:

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Finally, Svante Schubert introduces the new ODF Toolkit from The Document Foundation:

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Keep checking the blog – and our Twitter and Mastodon accounts – for more videos in the coming days and weeks!

Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain

Here’s a quick recap of the LibreOffice Conference 2019 that took place last week in Almeria, Spain! Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll also upload videos from the individual presentations…

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LibreOffice Conference 2019: Photos from days 2 and 3

Last week was the LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. It was an awesome event, and great to see so many community members – a big thanks to everyone who took part! We already posted some photos from the first day, along with the video of the opening session. Now we have some photos from the second and third days, starting with the special bus that took us to the conference location every day…

Here’s Tomaž Vajngerl, Mike Kaganski and Heiko Tiezte talking about user interface design:

In one talk, Gabriele Ponzo discussed the role of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee:

At lunch we enjoyed migas – it was great!

Collabora brought a virtual reality device – here’s QA engineer Xisco Fauli testing it out:

In another talk, we looked at encouraging people to contribute to LibreOffice, and the reasons why:

And then on the evening of the final day, we had a great guided tour of the Alcazaba of Almería…

Coming up: there were many talks and presentations at the conference, so we’ll be uploading videos from them to our YouTube channel soon. Stay tuned to this blog for updates!

Video: Opening session of LibreOffice Conference 2019

Here’s the opening session – there’s a quick introduction in Spanish, followed by English at 00:40:

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

Open Document Format

The importance of ODF during the festive season

To be honest, I didn't think I would publish my usual post about ODF over the festive period, as most…