LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community project leaders. At the time it was a brave – although necessary – decision, because it was rather clear to everyone that OpenOffice.org was not going to survive for a long time under Oracle stewardship.…
28 Sep 2015
Five years of LibreOffice
23 Sep 2015
LibreOffice 5.0.2 announced at LibreOffice Conference
Berlin/Aarhus, September 23, 2015 – The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.0.2 during the opening session of the LibreOffice Conference, to underline the importance of the event for the community. LibreOffice Conference has opened today, and will be closing on Friday, September 25.
LibreOffice 5.0.2 is the second minor release of the LibreOffice 5.0 family, with a large number of fixes over the first minor release announced in August.…
22 Sep 2015
LibreOffice merchandising is available from Spreadshirt.Net
The Document Foundation has opened a store for LibreOffice merchandising at Spreadshirt.Net.
We have a few items at the moment, mostly mugs and t-shirts, but we are open to suggestions and new designs. If you want to contribute, or if you already have a design to suggest, send an email to italo@documentfoundation.org.
The shop is managed by Spreadshirt, which is also responsible for the production of the items, the collection of the payment and the delivery of the items.…
14 Sep 2015
The geography of LibreOffice
The LibreOffice community has a wide geographical reach, which is shown on this map, where all countries where there is at least a TDF Member are shown in green.
The LibreOffice community will gather in Aarhus for the LibreOffice Conference, where most of the countries will be represented. In addition, there will be volunteers from other countries, according to this map, where all countries where there is at least a conference participant are shown in green.…
11 Sep 2015
Behind the scenes at TDF: L10N and NLP in the first half of 2015
Now that the summer vacation time is over for many of us, it’s time to have a look at what has been happening behind the scenes with our fantastic native-language community. And indeed – it’s a lot of exciting things!
Now that TDF has launched the Android Viewer and even if the application itself is not yet available other than in en_US language, we could at least give its description in several languages.…
08 Sep 2015
The program of the LibreOffice Conference 2015 is online
The program of the LibreOffice Conference 2015 has been published on the conference website at the address: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/. There is a separate page for each day of the event, including the community day (which is happening, as usual, the day before the conference).
Tuesday, September 22: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-22th-community-day/.
Wednesday, September 23 (opening sessions + tracks): http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-23th-wednesday/…