2017 TDF and LibreOffice calendar

2017 is just around the corner, so here’s a shiny calendar from The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community. Print it out, hang it on your wall, and here’s to a great 12 months ahead!

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The Document Foundation opens LibreOffice Certification for Migrations and Trainings to all project volunteers, to members of not-for-profit bodies, and to individuals of proven competence

LibreOffice Certification represents a business opportunity for value added resellers, based on the proposition of consultancy and training services

Berlin, December 27, 2016 – Effective from January 1st, 2017, access to LibreOffice Certification will be extended to volunteers active at global and local levels, members of not-for-profit bodies sitting in the Advisory Board (namely, FSF, FSFE, Gnome Foundation and KDE), and for individuals whose competence and commitment are demonstrated by facts (successful migrations and trainings).

Merry Christmas from The Document Foundation!

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Advent Resource #23: OpenHub

OpenHub is a project sponsored by Black Duck, which provides an overview of open source software projects by parsing their repositories and transforming the results in numbers and/or charts. Although we have our own numbers, we have extensively used OpenHub as an independent source of information.

The LibreOffice page is here: https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice.

Advent Resource #22: PDF Forms Guide

The Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN) is a non-profit organization that primarily serves the public and private Anglophone, and Aboriginal, Youth and Adult Education sectors of Québec.

LEARN has developed a short guide for creating a PDF Form using LibreOffice, which has been originally published for version 4.0.5.2 [download PDF], and has been updated a first time for version 4.2.8.2 [download PDF] and a second time for version 5.0.5.2 [download PDF].…

Let’s celebrate with LibreOffice 5.2.4

Berlin, December 22, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice 5.2.4still, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family. Based on the upcoming announcement of LibreOffice 5.3, all users can start to update to LibreOffice 5.2.4 from LibreOffice 5.1.6 or previous versions.