Advent Resource #23: OpenHub

OpenHub is a project sponsored by Black Duck, which provides an overview of open source software projects by parsing their repositories and transforming the results in numbers and/or charts. Although we have our own numbers, we have extensively used OpenHub as an independent source of information.

The LibreOffice page is here: https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice.

Advent Resource #22: PDF Forms Guide

The Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN) is a non-profit organization that primarily serves the public and private Anglophone, and Aboriginal, Youth and Adult Education sectors of Québec.

LEARN has developed a short guide for creating a PDF Form using LibreOffice, which has been originally published for version 4.0.5.2 [download PDF], and has been updated a first time for version 4.2.8.2 [download PDF] and a second time for version 5.0.5.2 [download PDF].…

Let’s celebrate with LibreOffice 5.2.4

Berlin, December 22, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice 5.2.4still, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family. Based on the upcoming announcement of LibreOffice 5.3, all users can start to update to LibreOffice 5.2.4 from LibreOffice 5.1.6 or previous versions.

Advent Resource #21: Solver Tutorial

Solver Tool has the capability to solve linear (and often nonlinear) programming problems, and is available in Microsoft Excel as well as LibreOffice.

edX, an online learning destination and MOOC provider founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012 and offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere, has developed a tutorial which shows the user how to (1) load the solver into the spreadsheet, (2) define the problem and write out formulas for the objective and constraints, and (3) solve the problem.…

The Document Foundation announces the MUFFIN, a new tasty user interface concept for LibreOffice

muffinBerlin, December 21, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces the MUFFIN, a new tasty user interface concept for LibreOffice, based on the joint efforts of the development and the design teams, supported by the marketing team. MUFFIN is an acronym for My User Friendly & Flexible INterface, and focuses on the three areas suggested by LibreOffice users during the development of the concept:

  1. My: LibreOffice users want a “personal” UI, with different options capable of adapting to the user’s personal habits, and not a single UI without options.

Advent Resource #20: Introduction to Statistics

downloadDana Lee Ling is a Professor at the College of Micronesia, who – amongst other academic tasks – is teaching students to use LibreOffice Calc to make statistical calculations. To support his lessons, he has published a manual – “Introduction to Statistics Using LibreOffice Calc, AOO Calc and Gnumeric” – based on the following contents: Populations and samples, Measures of middle and spread, Visualizing data, Paired data and scatter diagrams, Probability, Probability distributions, Introduction to the normal distribution, Normal distribution and z-values, Confidence intervals for the mean, Hypothesis testing against a known population mean, and Hypothesis testing two sample means.…