Berlin, November 3, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.0.3 “fresh”, the 4th release of the LibreOffice 5.0 family, and LibreOffice 4.4.6, the 7th release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family. So far, the LibreOffice 5.0 family is the most popular LibreOffice ever, based on feedback from journalists and end users.

LibreOffice 5.0.3 is more feature-rich, and as such is targeted to tech enthusiasts and power users, and LibreOffice 4.4.6 is targeted to more conservative users and enterprise deployments as it has been in widespread use for a longer time, and as such offers a better experience for document production.…

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a

Documentation Lead

to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items:

• Mentor and train new members of the documentation project: how we do things, how to use the tools, and writing style as needed
• Guide and coordinate work: what needs to be done when, set priorities
• Set standards and templates
• Maintain Contributors Guide, which includes Style Guide
• Improve and enhance the online help, including building and mentoring a community to work on it
• Research, write and edit, as needed to fill gaps when volunteers contributions are lacking
• Publish chapters and full books
• Identify requirements for books and formats (ODT, PDF, ePub, HTML, other)
• Develop a vision, a plan and a strategy for documentation, to include things like version tracking, workflow, scheduling and recruitment
• Identify other forms of documentation that we should do, either in addition to, or instead of, the user guide books we’ve been producing
• Liaise and coordinate with marketing, translation, other user support, Help

The role requires the following:

• Experience using LibreOffice and other open source tools (such as GIMP)
• Experience in interacting with the LibreOffice community or another large open source project
• Working closely with our volunteer community on tooling, processes and means of collaboration
• Project management skills
• Technical writing and/or editing to know what’s involved, what’s realistic etc.

Cor Nouws, Chairman of TDF’s Membership Committee, announced the following today:

Dear Community,

We hereby officially announce the upcoming elections for the next Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.

As per § 7 II of our statues, [1] the Board’s term lasts two years. The current board started its duty on February 18, 2014.…