Annual Report 2019: Marketing community activities

(Note: this is a section from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2019, which will be published in full in the coming weeks.)

Ongoing Marketing Activities

Marketing at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice is a large team effort, with contractors paid for their activity – thanks to the money made available by our generous donors – and several volunteers, carrying out actions both at global and local levels to increase visibility and brand awareness.…

LibreOffice Weekly Clippings – July 5, 2020

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LibreOffice 6.4.5 Now Available for Download

LibreOffice 6.4.5 Now Available for Download

LibreOffice 6.4.5 Released with over 100 Bug Fixes, Now Ready for Enterprise Deployments – 9to5Linux

LibreOffice Productivity Suite 6.4.5 – An Excellent “FREE” Substitute for Microsoft Office

LibreOffice 6.4.5 Released with over 100 Bug Fixes, Now Ready for Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice 6.4.5 Released with over 100 Bug Fixes, Now Ready for Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice 6.4.5 Released with over 100 Bug Fixes, Now Ready for Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice slips out another 7.0 beta

New LibreOffice 7.0 Bug Hunting Ready to Begin

New LibreOffice 7.0 Bug Hunting Ready to Begin

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OASIS Open Joins Open Source Initiative

Community Member Monday: Andreas Heinisch

Today we’re talking to Andreas Heinisch, who recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am from South Tyrol, and live near the city of Meran/Merano on the mountain side. I studied computer science, and teach informatics, physics and mathematics at the local high schools.…

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 Will Take Place Online

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference, along with the project’s boards, have made the decision to change the conference to an online conference.

The uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on travel, conference planning, logistics and possibility for attendees to come to the event were reasons for shifting the event from a physical event to an online event.…

LibreOffice Tuesday T&T: Windows 7 SP1

Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009, and ended the support on January 14, 2020. Technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect PCs are no longer available for the product.

Microsoft released the first Service Pack for Windows 7, also known as Windows 7 SP1, in February 2011, just a few days after the release of LibreOffice 3.3, the very first release after the fork.…

Document Freedom in 2020

In the age of the cloud, most people think they don’t have “real” files any more, as these have been replaced by pointers in an online system. They don’t realise they have lost their freedom until they download the file to edit it on their laptop. At that point, they realize that without buying a proprietary office suite they are unable to access their very own contents, as these are hostage of a proprietary file format.…