The 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.…
Berlin, 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.…
The LibreOffice project keeps growing, and 2015 numbers have just confirmed this positive trend.
Downloads 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.…
LibreOffice last tip of the series (a huge success, according to the numbers) is slightly different from the previous ones, because is not a real tip but an invitation to help the project by submitting bugs and regressions.
In fact, only with the help of our large user community (stay tuned for the numbers…) we will be able to improve the quality of LibreOffice, release after release.…
LibreOffice properThe year 2015 started off with LibreOffice 4.4.0 and 4.3.6 rc1 – only the first of a whopping 42 (of course!) tags that were created and for which a build was uploaded to our mirror network – and ends with the stable releases 4.4.7 and 5.0.4 and with the first RC for LibreOffice 5.1.0 (for those interested: that’s a total of 216GB for the binary builds).…
LibreOffice provides a Zoom & View Layout dialog which makes it easier to set the size of the document inside the software window. The feature can be accessed either with the menu View > Zoom > Zoom… or by double clicking on the zooming percentage in the lower right corner. The dialog allows to set both the Zoom Factor and the View Layout, with a number of different option for each choice.…