Free and open source software (FOSS), such as LibreOffice, is being adopted by governments and companies around the world. But this doesn’t happen by magic – it takes hard work by local communities to spread the word, advocate the benefits of FOSS, and fight for political change. Today we talk to MK Yadava about his experiences from promoting GNU/Linux and LibreOffice, distributing it on 250,000 computers, and how LibreOffice can improve to become even more widespread…
Tell us a bit about yourself…
I belong to the Indian Forest Service, and am actually a “forester” by profession, which I love very much.…
LibreOffice is a truly universal office suite – it’s available in over 100 languages, across many operating systems, and it opens a huge range of document formats. But just how many? Check out the short video we made…
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At the start of this month, we kicked off a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions all across the project! So how many stickers have been won so far? Well…
To see if your name (or username) is on the list, click the number above. If you’re not there, there’s still time to get involved!…
LibreOffice 6.1 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August – see the release notes describing the new features here. You can help us to test it, and make it super reliable!
After the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.1, which was held on April 27th 2018, we’re glad to announce the Second Bug Hunting Session on May 28th – this time being held on a Monday.…
We are announcing a Revision Sprint Week, starting Monday May 21st and ending on Sunday May 27th to review the contents of all chapters of the Getting Started Guide 6.0.
The task consist of downloading a chapter and review it. Then send it back to documentation at libreoffice dot org when revision is finished.
Volunteers are invited to visit our Wiki page and have a deep reading on the contents.…
Donations to The Document Foundation help us to grow our community, maintain our infrastructure, and continue to improve LibreOffice. Here’s a graphic showing some things that donations enabled us to do in 2017…
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