LibreOffice 5.3.7 available for download

Berlin, November 2, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 5.3.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family, targeted at enterprises, government bodies and individual users in production environments.

TDF suggests deploying LibreOffice in production environments with the backing of professional support by certified developers, migrators and trainers (a list is available at: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

LibreOffice Conference 2017: Group photos

We’ve had some requests to share the group photos from the recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome, so here they are! (These are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.)

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The November 2017 Month of LibreOffice begins!

Six months ago we ran a Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the project – from development and documentation through to QA and translations. And today we’re starting another one! If you use LibreOffice and want to help improve it, you can join our community and get a shiny sticker for your PC, laptop or other kit:

(And if you already have one from the last Month of LibreOffice, now’s you chance to get another!)…

Call for Papers Open Document Editors DevRoom at FOSDEM 2018

FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2018, it will be held on Saturday, February 3, and Sunday, February 4.

As usual, the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be jointly organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, on Saturday, February 3 (from 10:30AM to 6:30PM, room AW1.120).…

LibreOffice Conference attendee report: Brett Cornwall

Brett helps out with TDF’s infrastructure, and joined us at our recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome. Here’s what he had to say about the event – and a couple of photos too!

2017’s LibreOffice conference marked my first visit outside of the United States. I arrived some days before the conference so that I might explore a city that has contributed so much to western culture.

LibreOffice contributor interview: Franklin Weng

At the recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome, we took the opportunity to meet up and talk to various contributors to the project, like Franklin Weng from Taiwan. Franklin is helping to get LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF) adopted by governments and enterprises. In this interview, he talks about his strategy and experiences. (English subtitles available – click the Settings cog.)…