Berlin, April 6, 2017 – The Document Foundation (TDF) releases LibreOffice 5.3.2, the 2nd minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family, focused on bleeding edge features, and as such targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters, and power users. LibreOffice 5.3.2 integrates over 50 patches, with a large number of fixes related to RTF and DOCX documents.…
06 Apr 2017
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 5.3.2
30 Mar 2017
Visit of the Univention Summit 2017
The Document Foundation has enabled us to visit the Univention Summit in Bremen, so here is our report
Univention’s primary product is the Univention Corporate Server (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univention_Corporate_Server#App_Center). UCS combines various free software applications into a comprehensive server platform based on Debian GNU/Linux.
The goal of the summit was networking in the field of open source software and, of course, to popularize UCS.…
29 Mar 2017
Celebrating Document Freedom Day 2017
Open standards, especially open document formats, are essential tools for bridging digital divides and giving content creators control over their work. We would like to see governments, organisations and companies around the world switch to fully open and standardised file formats, freeing them from vendor lock-in and improving compatibility across multiple platforms and operating systems.
So, today we celebrate Document Freedom Day, an international day for spreading awareness about open standards and open document formats.…
28 Mar 2017
Video interview: Heiko Tietze, LibreOffice UX mentor
At FOSDEM this year, we made video interviews with members of the LibreOffice community and staff at The Document Foundation. We’ll be editing and uploading them regularly to the blog, so stay tuned! We start with Heiko Tietze, who is The Document Foundation’s UX (user experience) mentor and works with the design community:
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22 Mar 2017
LibreOffice Conference 2018: Call for location
We’re currently organising the LibreOffice Conference 2017, which will be held in Rome from September 27 – 29. But we like to plan even further ahead, so today we’re putting out a Call for Location for 2018’s conference.
Why are we doing this so early? Well, we want to give the 2018 conference organiser a chance to attend this year’s conference to see how it works.…
21 Mar 2017
LibreOffice Contributor Interview: Lera Goncharuk
Our native language projects benefit enormously from volunteers around the world, who help make LibreOffice a success in many different locations. In our latest contributor interview, we talk to Lera Goncharuk who is active in the Russian community, helping out with translations and documentation.
What is your IRC nickname, nationality and current location?
I am “tagezi” in the IRC channels on Freenode, as well as The Document Foundation (TDF) wiki, but my friends call me Lera – that is a short version of my full name, Valerii.…