Librezale, an open working collective that has the objective to promote the Basque language in technology and are best known for their localizations of Free Software (they maintain Firefox, WordPress, LibreOffice and Gnome, amongst the others) are organizing an askbot translation marathon on the 6th of December, during Durangoko Azoka, in the Basque city of Durango (Spain).…
28 Nov 2016
AskBot translation marathon in Basque language
26 Nov 2016
More LibreOffice Conference 2016 videos online
Here’s the latest batch of videos we’ve uploaded from the LibreOffice Conference in Brno. Enjoy the presentations – there’s something for everyone!
- Advocating LibreOffice – talking to the press
- Competitive marketing strategies for LibreOffice
- Answering Non Technical Questions
- The difficulties of creating a community
- LibreOffice with a female touch
- Where are women in LibreOffice?
- How to increase participation to make the project more inclusive
- Calc Tiled Rendering in LibreOffice Online
- Calc Beyond Cells
- Improved digital signature handling in LibreOffice
- Unifying LibreOffice Low Level Text Layout
- Collaborative editing using LibreOfficeKit
- What could be done by volunteers to make LibreOffice more accessible?
25 Nov 2016
Get to know TDF Core Team: interview with Sophie Gautier
Typical day of Sophie
A first thing of the day (together with coffee) is to read mails in my inbox, sort them by priorities and begin to answer. Then I do moderation on Ask instances and on Nabble gateway and answer mails to the different lists. I try to do administrative tasks for the Foundation in the morning, like meeting organization with a follow-up on Redmine.…
24 Nov 2016
LibreOffice contributor interview: Leif Lodahl
With the Month of LibreOffice nearly over (stay tuned for a wrap-up!) we now return to our regular interviews with contributors to the project. This week it’s the turn of Leif Lodahl, who helps out with localization…
What do you do in the LibreOffice project?
I am the lead of the Danish localization team, and I live and work in the Copenhagen Area in Denmark.…
23 Nov 2016
Final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016
We’re now into the final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016! So far, 210 badges have been awarded – so 210 members of the LibreOffice community have contributed in the last 23 days. Fantastic work, everyone!
If your name isn’t there, you still have a chance to earn a shiny badge to put on your blog or social media – and tell the world about open source and digital freedom.…
21 Nov 2016
Second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 5.3
LibreOffice 5.3 will be announced at the end of January 2017, with a large number of new features which are summarized on the release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing a second bug hunting session on Friday, November 25, 2016. Tests will be performed on the Beta version of LibreOffice 5.3, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/…