Berlin, May 5, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.0.6 “still”, the sixth release of the LibreOffice 5.0 family, which can be used for the deployment in large organizations.
The Document Foundation suggests deploying LibreOffice 5.0.6 on a large scale only when backed by professional level 3 support from certified developers (a list available at: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/…
Today, May 3, is the International Day against DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).
Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM.…
Every contribution to the LibreOffice project – whether it’s a large code patch or just a small bug report – makes the software better for everyone. Over the last few years we’ve had many thousands of contributions from all around the world, and in May 2016 we really want to highlight all the effort goes in to LibreOffice.…
In 2016, the LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, and organized by OpenAlt, from September 6 (community day, with meetings to discuss topics relevant to native language communities around the world) to September 9.
In order to be able to plan for the event in the best way, and organize for logistics, food and t-shirts, we need to know how many people will be attending the conference on each day. …
The Call for Location for the 2017 Conference opens on May 1st, and will close on July 31, 2016. All details are available on the following wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2017/LibreOffice_Annual_Conference/Call_for_Location.
As for the past editions of the event, the idea is to get proposals in advance in order to have 2017 location set before 2016 Brno conference, to give the opportunity to the 2017 event organizers to attend 2016 conference to get familiar with all the details: location, schedule, collateral events, etc.…
There’s so much fantastic work going on in LibreOffice at the moment, in all areas of the project: development, translations, bug fixing, documentation, user support and much more. The community is doing stellar work to make the software better, faster, more reliable, easier to use, and available for everyone.
In May, we want to really highlight the efforts of everyone involved, so we’re going to run a special campaign: the Month of LibreOffice.…