Community Member Monday: Devansh Varshney

Devansh Varshney

Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am from Mathura in India, one of the historical cities where the first image of Buddha was carved during the Kushan Empire, Jain Tirthankar Neminatha’s birthplace and the more famous Bhagwan Krishna birthplace.…

LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg

The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference. Open Source software, together with data sovereignty, form the basis to achieve Digital Sovereignty as an inclusive effort where all the participants cooperate to create the tools we need to protect our data, while sharing the technologies that improve everyone’s digital lives.…

Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2025

Here’s a quick video recap from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2025 which took place in Budapest. Thanks to everyone who attended 😊 (The video is also available on PeerTube.)

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LibreOffice case study: Flotte Karotte

LibreOffice in business

Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors. Today we’re talking to Flotte Karotte, a German company with 50 employees that recently made a generous donation to support the LibreOffice project and community:

What is Flotte Karotte?

Flotte Karotte is an organic delivery service.…

TDF Annual Report 2024

The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.

We’ve been posting sections of the 2024 report here on the blog, and now the full version is available in PDF format on TDF’s Nextcloud server in two different versions: low resolution (6.6MB) and high resolution (56.2MB).…

How to resolve common compatibility issues with ODF files

Troubleshooting opening, formatting, and data loss issues with Open Document Format files

ODF files are great for sharing documents across multiple platforms, but they don’t always work perfectly, especially when using Microsoft Office or other software based on proprietary formats. If you’ve encountered problems opening, editing, or preserving the formatting of .odt, .ods, or .odp files, you’re not alone.…