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Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News

Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025 – Grab your free sticker pack 😊

LibreOffice Conference 2026 and 2027

Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX

The Document Foundation announces the approval of the Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 standard by OASIS Open

Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for TDF’s Board of Directors

The Role of ODF in Digital Identity and Authentication

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 Japan is coming!

Announcing the LibreOffice US community!

Presenting LibreOffice Telegram channel

telegram_logo_smallFollowing the success of the LibreOffice Conference Telegram channel, we have asked our community – through an informal poll on the Telegram channel itself – if they wanted to keep the channel alive and change the name to LibreOffice Community. The feedback has been overwhelming, as 21 out of the 22 answers have been positive.

We have therefore changed the name of the Telegram channel to LibreOffice Community, and made the channel public to allow everyone to subscribe.…

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Community Weeks: Design – meet the team

LibreOffice Community Weeks

We now come to our final Community Week for October 2016, and this time we’re talking to the Design team. Design is an essential aspect of LibreOffice development, and it’s sometimes tough to find the right balance: some users want the interface to change rapidly with each release, whereas others are more conservative and prefer an incremental approach.…

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Community Week: QA – meet the team

LibreOffice Community Weeks

Having covered development and documentation, we’re now into our third LibreOffice Community Week: Quality Assurance (or just “QA” for short). QA is an essential element of the LibreOffice development process, and affects the suite in many ways. For the benefit of end users, QA helps to identify and fix bugs – whether they’re glitches in the behaviour of the office suite, or problems that arise when importing certain files, or just issues with the user interface.…

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Community Week: Development – get involved

LibreOffice Community Weeks

On Monday we had a chat with LibreOffice’s dedicated mentor for new developers, Jan Iversen, and on Wednesday we then looked at some statistics from the development team and the tools they use. Today we finish off this Community Week by showing you how to get involved. Put your coding gloves on and get ready to become a LibreOffice hacker…

Getting the source code

The first thing you need to do is read this page – this is a step-by-step guide, from the primary contact until you have successfully gotten your first patch merged.…

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Community Week: Development – people, stats and tools

LibreOffice Community Weeks

Earlier in the week we talked to Jan Iversen who is mentoring new contributors to the development team. Let’s now look at some of the people involved, statistics from recent months, and the tools used by developers in their daily work.

Who’s who

As with other large free and open source software projects, LibreOffice developers come from a variety of backgrounds: some are paid to work on the code by companies that use or offer support for LibreOffice; others contribute in their spare time because they enjoy programming and working with the community.…

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3

Berlin, 13 November 2025 - LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity…

Open Document Format

Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News

I decided to start the current campaign, with one blog post per week focusing on the different aspects of Open…