Welcome Michael Weghorn, new Developer at TDF

Michael Weghorn

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite. Recently, TDF decided to expand its small team with two new Developers – the first (Khaled Hosny) focusing on “complex” text layout languages. Today, we welcome our second Developer, Michael Weghorn, who will initially focus on accessibility improvements.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2023

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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • We started June by announcing the LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023, in Indonesia, an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and businesses in the Asia region.

LibreOffice Marketing Activities – Annual Report 2022

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In 2022, the marketing team continued the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, without overlooking ongoing activities to promote LibreOffice and support the efforts of native language communities

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)


LibreOffice Strategic Marketing Plan

We have invested in the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, with additional activities such as the release of generic presentations about The Document Foundation (History, and Digital Sovereignty), LibreOffice (Technology, also with comments, and Sustainability) and Open Document Format (Generic, ODF and Interoperability, and OOXML Issues), to be used by community members.…

Five ways we can make LibreOffice and Thunderbird work better together

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LibreOffice doesn’t include an email program, but there are many excellent free and open source software clients that work well alongside it. One prominent example is Mozilla Thunderbird – a sister project to the Firefox web browser.

We know that many people use LibreOffice and Thunderbird as part of their daily workflows – so how can we make them work better together?…

LibreOffice Community Infrastructure – TDF’s Annual Report 2022

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In 2022, the infrastructure team deployed a second web-based alternative to mailing lists, and upgraded many services

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

LibreOffice’s infrastructure team is responsible for maintaining the hardware, virtual machines and services that enable the wider community to develop, market, test, localize and improve the software.…

Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference!

The LibreOffice Conference 2023 is coming up in September in Romania – and everyone is welcome to join! The organisers have created a poster with details about a workshop at the event:

We invite you to a technical workshop that will teach you about LibreOffice development and Open Source in general. It will be part of the the annual LibreOffice Conference, that will take place this year in Bucharest at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, between 21 and 23 September.