Yesterday, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced that the opportunity to apply for LibreOffice certification for migrations and training is now available to FSF Associate Members. In 2015, TDF began offering LibreOffice certification to certify “individuals actively promoting LibreOffice deployments, thanks to their competence in specific areas” including development and L3 support, migrations to LibreOffice, and LibreOffice training.…
21 Sep 2017
LibreOffice Certification is now available to FSF Members
20 Sep 2017
Document Liberation Project: New releases
LibreOffice’s native file format is the fully standardised OpenDocument Format. This is ideal for long-term storage of data, but many of us have to work with other file formats as well, including those generated by proprietary software. The Document Liberation Project (DLP) develops libraries to help us access these files, and there have been various updates in the last two weeks, so let’s see what’s new:
- libfreehand 0.1.2 – This is a library for importing Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe FreeHand documents.
15 Sep 2017
Marketing activities so far in 2017: Mike Saunders
Thanks to donations to The Document Foundation, along with valued contributions from our community, we maintain a small team working on various aspects of LibreOffice including documentation, user interface design, quality assurance, release engineering and marketing. Together with Italo Vignoli, I help with the latter, and today I’ll summarise some of the achievements so far in 2017.…
14 Sep 2017
Call to Action: Hackfests “The New Generation”
LibreOffice’s development community has been growing steadily for seven years, thanks to the great enthusiasm demonstrated by several core members. They have mentored an entirely new generation of LibreOffice developers, also thanks to Hackfests and other face-to-face meeting opportunities such as FOSDEM and the LibreOffice Conference.
After seven years is now the right time to start thinking about the new generation of Hackfests.…
13 Sep 2017
Public Money? Public Code!
The Document Foundation joins FSFE campaign
31 organisations ask to improve public procurement of software
Digital services offered and used by public administrations are the critical infrastructure of 21st-century democratic nations. To establish trustworthy systems, government agencies must ensure they have full control over systems at the core of our digital infrastructure. This is rarely the case today due to restrictive software licences.…
07 Sep 2017
LibreOffice contributor interview: Chandrakant Dhutadmal
LibreOffice contributors around the world have a big impact on the success of the project – we really appreciate their help. Today we’re talking to Chandrakant Dhutadmal, who is involved in various free and open source projects including Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice…
Where do you live?
I live in Pune, Maharashtra State, India.
Do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just contribute in your spare time?…