Month of LibreOffice, November 2018: The winners!

At the beginning of this month, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions all across the project. Well, November has come to a close now, so how many people got stickers throughout the month? Here we go:

This is the best Month of LibreOffice we’ve ever had, reflecting our lively and growing community. A big thanks to everyone who took part – click the number above to see the full details, showing usernames of the contributors who gave a hand in various parts of the project.

Now, if you see your name (or username) on that page, we want to send you a cool sticker pack! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page so that we can check, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you these:

(Note: we will only use your postal address to send the stickers. No data will be transferred to third parties, and your address will be deleted as soon as the stickers are posted.)

If you contributed to the LibreOffice project in November but your name (or username) isn’t on the list, let us know! Just end us an email stating what you did and with your address, and we’ll make sure you get your stickers too…

So, to wrap up, a big cheers to everyone who helped out! LibreOffice is going from strength to strength, thanks to you… (And if you didn’t get a sticker this time, we plan to do another Month of LibreOffice in May!)

Video interview: Muhammet Kara on the LibreOffice community and migrations in Turkey

At our recent conference in Tirana, Albania, we sat down with Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community. He talks about the conference, recent FOSS migrations in his home country, and why he joined the Membership Committee:

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LibreOffice monthly recap: November 2018

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

  • At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the community! Everyone who took part in the LibreOffice project during November can claim a cool sticker pack – see here for the details. If you didn’t get a sticker, don’t worry – we plan to have another Month of LibreOffice is May next year!

  • At other events, LinuxDays and OpenAlt in the Czech Republic, Stanislav Horáček and Zdeněk Crhonek (aka raal) helped to spread the word about LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. They answered questions from visitors, handed out merchandise, and had discussions with other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. Here’s their report.

  • Meanwhile, local governments around the world are discovering the benefits of free software and open standards. The Municipality of Tirana, Albania is migrating to LibreOffice, as part of a large deployment of open source technologies in the city’s IT infrastructure, and follows the successful migration to Nextcloud. (Our recent LibreOffice Conference 2018 was held in Tirana – here’s a quick video recap.)

  • Finally, the Bengali LibreOffice community organised a localisation sprint, demonstrating how to use Pootle to translate the software’s user interface. Biraj Karkamar described it as “good and productive – and it was fun too!”

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