Our global community of volunteers, represented by The Document Foundation and based on many independent native language projects, is one of the main strengths of LibreOffice. Starting from today, we launch a new weekly blog post – scheduled on Wednesday – focused on community activities: events, seminars, conferences, projects with schools and central or local government bodies, achievements, etcetera.…
11 Jan 2018
Wednesday Community #1
09 Jan 2018
LibreOffice community focus: Documentation
Earlier this month we talked to the localisation community about the preparations they are making for LibreOffice 6.0, which is due to be released in late January (or early February). Now we turn to the documentation project, and Olivier Hallot, who is coordinating updates to guidebooks and a new help system…
What has the documentation community been working on in preparation for LibreOffice 6.0?…
07 Jan 2018
Sunday Marketing #1
Starting from today, we launch a weekly blog post focused on marketing topics. We will try to provide ammunition to community members advocating LibreOffice and the Open Document Format, and food for thought to people still trying to understand the viability of FOSS on the desktop.
Let’s start with some numbers about LibreOffice.
Although LibreOffice defect density score – according to Coverity Scan – has been around 0.00 per 1,000 lines of code for ages, we should never forget that it is the outstanding result of the commitment to quality of LibreOffice developers (and we should always mention it with pride when we present the software).…
02 Jan 2018
LibreOffice community focus: Localisation
LibreOffice 6.0 is due to be released at the end of this month (or in early February), and you can learn about the changes in on the wiki. Closer to the release, we’ll make a short video showing off the new features in action. But as we head towards LibreOffice 6.0, we want to hear from the many communities that have contributed to this version.…
31 Dec 2017
LibreOffice Community Smiles #31
A smiling Michael Meeks with a smiling LibreOffice icon. Happy 2018 !!!
…30 Dec 2017
LibreOffice Community Smiles #30
Smiling during the Certification Workshop in Tirana,. Albania, in front of a dozen people – mostly women – who have spent a full weekend to learn about migrations to LibreOffice
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