Sophie Gautier has been a member of the OpenOffice.org project since its beginning, and then a founding member of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. She is extremely active in the Francophone and international community, and is a staff member of The Document Foundation. She takes care of the French translation of LibreOffice (interface and help), is a member of LibreOffice certification committee and is a leading member of the quality assurance project.…
18 May 2015
TDF Internship Opening (#201505-01) – Marketing & PR
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a
Marketing & PR Intern
to start work as soon as possible.
The role, which is scheduled for 10 hours a week and an internship time of 3 months, includes amongst other items:
Public Relations Responsibilities
- Assist with building and maintaining media lists for different geographies
- Assist with developing, drafting, writing and distributing press releases and other PR materials such as backgrounders and newsletters
- Assist with media relations, including pitching, researching and scheduling interviews if needed
- Assist with collection of pictures of project members, free software events, hackfests, and conferences
- Assist with building and maintaining relationships with relevant media
- Assist with following-up with members of the media to ensure publication
- Assist with tracking of press coverage, and creating monthly clipping reports
- Assist with proofing written materials for style, grammar, etc.
07 May 2015
LibreOffice 4.4.3 is ready
Berlin, May 7, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.3, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 “fresh” family, with over 80 fixes over LibreOffice 4.4.2. New features introduced by LibreOffice 4.4 are listed on this wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4.
The Document Foundation suggests to deploy LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/…
04 May 2015
LibreOffice Conference Call for Papers
Berlin, May 4, 2015 – LibreOffice Conference will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, on September 23-25, 2015, at the Urban Media Space and is hosted by the Aarhus Municipality. The Document Foundation invites members and volunteers to submit proposals for papers.
Proposals should be filed by July 15, 2015, in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.…
25 Apr 2015
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.3.7
Berlin, April 25, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.3.7 “Still”, the seventh minor release of the LibreOffice 4.3 family, which is now the suggested version of the software for large deployments in the enterprise and for conservative users. LibreOffice 4.3.7 contains over 100 bug fixes.
LibreOffice 4.3.7 and LibreOffice 4.4.2, announced in early April, include a security patch for CVE-2015-1774: OpenOffice HWP Filter Remote Execution and DoS Vulnerability, where an issue in OpenOffice’s Hangul Word Processor (HWP) filter allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly the execution of arbitrary code by preparing specially crafted documents in the HWP document format in versions from 1997 or older.…
17 Apr 2015
First bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.0
Berlin, April 17, 2015 – The LibreOffice community is getting ready for the next major release – planned for the end of July – with a bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 full days, from May 22 to May 24, 2015, and check the first beta of LibreOffice 5.0.…