Making Macro Programming a Breeze: The BASIC & API Reference Cards

Update: Reference card for runtime library is now available.

One of the recurring issue when using LibreOffice as a replacement of other office applications is the migration of macros to the LibreOffice BASIC dialect and objects. While the LibreOffice BASIC programming language is almost standard, the objects inside a document have different names, methods and properties, and a rework on the macro is necessary in most cases to make it operational again, when imported from other suites.

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Sunday Marketing #6

Last week, we have published the crash report chart just two days after the announcement of LibreOffice 6.0.1, to show the impact of the new version on the issues reported by Windows users.

Ten days after the announcement the impact is even more visible, and the chart on the left shows that the situation is now under control.

The trend shows how important is for LibreOffice users to quickly update to the last available version to reduce the number of potential issues.

The Document Foundation 6th Anniversary

The Document Foundation was incorporated in Berlin on February 17, 2012. Today is the 6th anniversary, and all TDF Members around the world are celebrating another year of outstanding achievements. The last one has been the successful announcement of LibreOffice 6, which represents the combined effort of hundreds of people around the world, involved in development, localization, quality assurance, documentation and marketing. To summarize their activity, we have represented the building process of LibreOffice 6 visual image, from the empty sheet to the final result.

LibreOffice 6.0: The stats so far

On January 31, we released LibreOffice 6.0 (shortly followed up by 6.0.1). So what has happened in the last two weeks? Let’s look at some statistics…

969,108 downloads

Yes, there have been almost 1 million downloads of LibreOffice 6.0 since release day. Of course, this is just part of the overall downloads of LibreOffice – we also offer the “still” 5.4 family, which has reached version 5.4.5 and is more suited to enterprise deployments.

661,539 visits to our website

Our main website is the central resource for all things LibreOffice, including downloads, release notes, help, community support and more.

252,495 visits to our blog

Most of these were for the release announcement, but we’ve been posting other updates as well. On a related note, if you want to follow blog posts by other members of the LibreOffice community, check out the TDF Planet.

Over 3,500 donations

Donations are the lifeblood of The Document Foundation: they help us to support the LibreOffice project with infrastructure, events and a small team working on release management, quality assurance (QA), marketing, design and documentation. Click here to see how we used donations in 2016 – and see this page if you’d like to support us too. A huge thanks to everyone who donated!

80,516 views of our New Features video

As with previous releases, for LibreOffice 6.0 we made a video showcasing some of the great new features. (And on the topic of videos, we’ve just uploaded talks and presentations from the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM, Europe’s biggest free software developer meetup – click here for the playlist.)

87,358 impressions of the announcement tweet

We use Twitter to spread the word about LibreOffice, free software and open standards, and thanks to our supporters who retweeted the announcement, over 87,000 people saw it. It also had 561 retweets and 621 likes.

32,578 people reached on Facebook

Another social media platform we use is Facebook, where our page has 51,987 likes. In addition, we’re active on Google+ where we have 16,731 followers, and our announcement of LibreOffice 6.0 received 217 +1s.

So that’s an overview of activity in the last two weeks – but there’s much more going on in the LibreOffice project! If you’d like to get involved with a friendly community that’s passionate about open source and open standards, you can help us in many ways – see this page to get started.

And thanks to everyone in the community who helped to make LibreOffice 6.0 happen!

Thursday Community #5

Showing our love for free software at LibreOffice FOSDEM booth, and around FOSDEM. Above, from left to right: Italo Vignoli (Italy), Sophie Gautier (France), Mike Saunders (UK/Germany) and Marinela Gogo (Albania). Below, from left to right: Jona Azizaj (Albania), Michael Meeks (UK), and Valerie Dagrain (France).

LibreOffice talks and presentations at FOSDEM 2018

FOSDEM is a major event in the free and open source software world – thousands of FOSS supporters get together to discuss new features, work on bugs, make new contacts, and just have a great time.

This year, many members of the LibreOffice community were there too, and gave talks and presentations in the Open Document Editors devroom. We’ve added the videos to a playlist, embedded below, so enjoy browsing through them to see what’s to come in LibreOffice! (Click the button in the top-left to switch between videos in the playlist.)

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