Mike Saunders and Franklin Weng having fun during Franklin video interview in Rome
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01 Dec 2017
LibreOffice Community Smiles #1
Getting close to the end of the year, we want to remember everyone how much fun we have for being members of The Document Foundation, by showing our best smiles. We start with Sophie Gautier, who doesn’t need any introduction, as she’s always been around since the early days of OOo and LibreOffice.
…01 Dec 2017
Month of LibreOffice, November 2017: The results!
The Month of LibreOffice, November 2017 has finished – and what a great month it has been. There have been contributions all across the project, including source code patches, bug report confirmations, user interface translations and documentation updates. Not to mention user support on Ask LibreOffice, along with LibreOffice promotion on Twitter! Here’s how many stickers have been awarded:
Click the number for the full details.…
28 Nov 2017
TDF supports the “Munich stays free” alliance
Following the recent decision by Munich’s City Council to step back to closed source and proprietary software, at a large cost to taxpayers, a group of free and open source software (FOSS) supporters have created a website explaining the importance of FOSS in public administrations.
The German website, called München bleibt frei (Munich stays free), lists numerous benefits of FOSS, including:
- Independence from a single software vendor
- Boost to local industry (because anyone can improve FOSS)
- Sustainability
- Security and data protection
The Document Foundation supports this position.…
27 Nov 2017
LibreOffice Conference Organization CheckList
I have organized the LibreOffice Conference in 2013 (Milan) and 2017 (Rome), after having organized the OOo Conference in 2009 (Orvieto). So, I am qualified for the creation of a conference organization checklist to help future organizers in carrying out their tasks.
Of course, I give for granted that the entire team is familiar with both the Call for Locations and the proposal, because there are some details which could represent a major issue getting close to the events, if ignored.…