The Document Foundation issues a press release in English – and in other languages, according to the availability of volunteer translators – for major and minor software releases, and for other significant announcements such as new Advisory Board members. Press releases are key to get media coverage, and have been instrumental for the growth of LibreOffice awareness around the world (although we have had to overtake the brand awareness of another product).…

Yes, the Month of LibreOffice has come to an end – and what a great month it was. We celebrated contributions from all over the world, in many different areas of the project: development, translations, user support, quality assurance, documentation and social media. Everyone is working hard on the LibreOffice 5.3 release – and we’re really grateful for all the effort!…

Librezale, an open working collective that has the objective to promote the Basque language in technology and are best known for their localizations of Free Software (they maintain Firefox, WordPress, LibreOffice and Gnome, amongst the others) are organizing an askbot translation marathon on the 6th of December, during Durangoko Azoka, in the Basque city of Durango (Spain).…