LibreOffice: Advent Tip #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are approaching the end of 2015. We have decided to celebrate the month of December with our own version of the Advent Calendar: one simple tip per day, to make the use of LibreOffice more enjoyable or more productive.

Today, December 1, we start by pointing LibreOffice users to Ask LibreOffice and to the FAQ on TDF Wiki.…

Community, as seen from the sky

drone5During the Aarhus Conference, we have organized the usual group picture to celebrate the community, leveraging the architectural features of the DOKK1.

We have gathered on one of the large staircases leading to the first floor of the building, which were the ideal setting for a group picture.

To the surprise of the group, in addition to the usual camera picture, Dennis Borup Jakobsen has organized a “drone” session, to get a different view of the community, as seen from the sky.

Behind the scenes at TDF: Jan Iversen, mentoring development lead

janiversensmallI started working for Document Foundation in November. I live and work in southern Spain, Malaga, a nice warm place. I wrote my first program in 1975, so I have been active in the pre-unix, pre-linux, pre-pc worlds, and have been involved in developing drivers, micro kernels and compilers. I retired from my international companies in 2011, dedicating time to open source.…

LibreOffice getting ready for the next 1,000 hackers

janiversensmallBerlin, November 23, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces a renewed effort to grow the developers community beyond the threshold of 1,000 hackers reached in October 2015 (source: OpenHub), with the addition of Jan Iversen – a senior developer with a passion for mentoring, and a long experience at Apache Software Foundation – to the team.…

LibreOffice wins two open source awards at PortalProgramas

LibreOffice has won two different awards at PortalProgramas.Com, for the following categories:

  1. Mayor potencial de crecimiento (best growth potential), because it is regularly updated and is open to new features and applications;
  2. Esencial para empresas (essential for enterprises), because it covers all enterprise office automation needs without adding license costs.

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Behind the scenes at TDF: Karl Morten Ramberg, marketing intern

kmr2I am working as marketing intern since October, living and working out of Lillehammer, Norway. I have been working with open source software and projects since around the year 2000. Before that I was a development manager for ERP software for some years. I have also been heavily involved in using office suites as front ends to ERP and other systems both in private industry and the public sector.…