Many companies around the world use free and open source software (FOSS) to reduce costs, improve reliability, and free themselves from vendor lock-in. Today we talk to Iwan Tahari from FANS, an Indonesian shoe manufacturer, which has migrated to GNU/Linux and LibreOffice:
Firstly, tell us about your company, and your role in it…
I work at the FANS shoes factory in Tangerang, Indonesia.…
Thanks to the resources made available by our generous donors, we can organise workshops to educate volunteers about the migration process to LibreOffice and Open Document Format. If you support our activity, you should consider a donation to grow the project and extend our activities to more geographies.
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Consider a donation to the LibreOffice project, to allow the production of swag for free software advocates, volunteers and users, to promote freedom in personal productivity and office documents
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Consider a donation to help native language projects organise events to improve LibreOffice. In a large country such as Brasil, donations help to reimburse travel expenses of people traveling for hours to join a central location, where they can work together at localising the software or the user guides.
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Ever wanted to expand your programming skills, and venture into the world of C++? Well, we’re here to help! On Thursday December 13, at 19:00 UTC, we’ll have a live meeting on our #libreoffice-dev IRC channel, to discuss features of the language and provide help. LibreOffice developers will be available to answer questions and get your started with building the source code.…
