Donations to The Document Foundation are used for many purposes, such as organising events, maintaining our infrastructure, and paying a small team to handle QA, marketing, documentation and other tasks. But donations are also used to fund tenders, whereby companies and individuals improve LibreOffice in specific areas and share knowledge with the community.
One such tender was posted in May 2017: “improve image handling in LibreOffice (#201705-01)“.…
With free and open source software, you get back control – over your software, your data, and your computer as a whole. And in the LibreOffice community, we strive to create the best user experience, but we also recognise that different users have different requirements.
To this end, LibreOffice includes three main user interface designs, accessible via View > Toolbar Layout in the menu.…
Currently we’re posting out the sticker packs for the Month of LibreOffice. Did you contribute to the project in May 2018, and your name (or username) is on this page?
If so, and you haven’t contacted us yet, email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you a bunch of stickers for your laptop, PC and other devices!…
The Document Foundation reminds all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s conference in Tirana (Albania). The event is scheduled for late September, from Wednesday 26 to Friday 28. Proposals should be filed by June 30, 2018, to be considered for inclusion in the conference program, so there are only 20 days left before the deadline.…
The deadline for LibreOffice Conference 2019 Call for Locations is on June 30 and is approaching fast… and we are sure you don’t want to miss the excitement of organizing one of the most important events in the FLOSS environment, with dozens of participants coming from all over the world to share best practices in LibreOffice development, quality assurance, localization, accessibility, user interface and experience and marketing, plus open document standards.…
LibreOffice’s design community works on improving the user interface of the software. Today we talk to Andreas Kainz, who has created new icon themes and made improvements to the Notebookbar, an experimental and alternative user interface layout that will become an option in future releases…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I live in Vienna, Austria.…