Tenders Extended to February 12

Tenders published in December, and supposed to expire on January 29, have been extended till Friday, February 12.

Single tenders can be accessed via the following links:

R.I.P. John McCreesh

533120_10151138749737628_577502702_nJohn McCreesh, a founding member of The Document Foundation and the author of the project “manifesto“, has suddenly passed away on Saturday, January 16, at the age of 61.

This is an extremely sad time for The Document Foundation, as John has been a friend of every project founder, and often a mentor for the younger members.…

First 2016 meeting of the LibreOffice Indian community

CYcrDHsUoAAeZpMToday, the LibreOffice Indian community meets in Delhi, the capital of India, at Social Cops, to discuss 2016 activities. The event is supported by the FUEL Project, one of the largest localization communities worlwide (India alone has a large number of native languages, and localization is one of the first issues to tackle for any free software community).…

LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka

banner_2000x667The Japanese community has just organized their LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 in Osaka. We have asked Takeshi Abe, a leading member of the Japanese community, a few questions about the event.

Can you tell us more about the context of the Japan LibreOffice Mini-Conference?

In 2012, the idea of a mini Conference in Japan has emerged from discussions in LibreOffice Japanese Team, in charge of the organization of the series of events.…

Third bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.1

noun_83830_ccBerlin, January 7, 2016 – The LibreOffice community is working hard on the next major release of LibreOffice 5.1 – planned for early February – with a bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions, to test the second release candidate.

The session will last 3 days, from January 15 to January 17, 2016.

LibreOffice: the numbers

The LibreOffice project keeps growing, and 2015 numbers have just confirmed this positive trend.

downloadsuniqueipsDownloads since September 2010 are close to 120 million, with a rather steady increase of weekly numbers. In 2013 there have been visible spikes after the launch of LibreOffice 4.0 and 4.1, as these versions were representing a significant growth in term of features over previous releases.…