Want to learn new skills, for a potential future career change? Or just expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them. There are many ways to get involved, as you’ll see in a second.…
LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2024
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 April with very good news: the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.
Calc Guide and Writer Guides available for browsing
The Documentation team just published the Calc Guide and Writer Guide as on-line pages in the Bookshelf at https://books.libreoffice.org
Presented as web pages, the guides contents can now be accessed with your favorite browser and use the browser resources to navigate, bookmark and reference pages.
Together with the PDF versions, the guides web pages can be downloaded and installed in local networks using a simple web server.…
Community Member Monday: Kira Tubo
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I live in San Jose, California, USA. I’ve lived around the Bay Area my whole life, after my parents moved away from the Philippines when I was about a year old.
I have had experience as a CRM (customer relations management) administrator, which partially functioned sort of like an internal tech support position, and I’ve also done crowdsourced testing and a11y (accessibility) testing as a side hustle.…
Quick tip: creating “hybrid” PDF files in LibreOffice
Here’s a LibreOffice feature you may not know about: when exporting a PDF, the “Hybrid PDF” option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOffice users can edit it too.
Learn more about this feature here
…Insights from the InstallFest 2024 conference in Prague
Our Czech community reports back from a recent event…
For the third time, the LibreOffice project had its own booth at InstallFest 2024, and here we present our experiences from the event.
On the weekend of 16th and 17th March 2024, the InstallFest 2024 conference took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.…