LibreOffice is approaching the 5.3 release season with the first bug hunting session, on Friday, October 21, 2016. Tests will be performed on the Alpha version of LibreOffice 5.3, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/) a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), MacOS and Windows, and will run in parallel with the actual installation.…
07 Oct 2016
First LibreOffice 5.3 BugHunting Session
06 Oct 2016
Community Week: Documentation – who’s who, the tools used, and how to get involved
Earlier in the week we talked to Olivier Hallot who’s heading up the documentation team in LibreOffice. But other people are contributing as well, so if you want to help out, here are some names to look out for:
- Jean Weber is the author and original producer of the LibreOffice guides
- Stan Horacek, Gabor Kelemen, Adolfo Jaime Barrientos and others are contributors to the help contents
- Dennis Roczek and Lera Goncharuk work mostly on the wiki
- Andrea Mussap just joined and under Olivier’s advice produced a help page for LibreOffice
The team communicates via the documentation mailing list (see the archives here), where you can post suggestions for updates or ask for areas that need help.…
05 Oct 2016
Video: Join the LibreOffice community
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04 Oct 2016
LibreOffice Community Week: Documentation
The LibreOffice project is made up of many communities working on different aspects of the software: source code, documentation, quality assurance, design and other matters. Some people are working full time, many others are volunteers, and we always try to make new contributors feel welcome.
So throughout October we’ll be running LibreOffice Community Weeks, looking at the different sub-projects in LibreOffice, what they do, and how to get involved.…
30 Sep 2016
TDF Presentation Gallery
We have created a number of slide decks which can be re-used by community members as a basis for their presentations at events. For the time being, slide decks are based on the old 4:3 format, as this is still the most common, but in the future will also be available in the new 16:9 format.…
29 Sep 2016
LibreOffice 5.2.2 available for download
Berlin, September 29, 2016 – Just one day after the project 6th anniversary (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/09/28/happy-6th-birthday-libreoffice/), The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice 5.2.2, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family.
LibreOffice 5.2.2, targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users, provides a number of fixes over the major release announced in August.…