LibreOffice 3.4.5 RC1 and 3.5 Beta 1 are now available for testing at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
…08 Dec 2011
New supporter
“We are excited about the LibreOffice project”, says Monty, founder and creator of MySQL and MariaDB. “To do our part with for the project we are committed to integrate and provide excellent support for MariaDB, (the successor of MySQL from the same people that created MySQL) for LibreOffice. This includes among other things a new LGPL C drivers to connect to MariaDB or MySQL and provide bug fixing for any bug in MariaDB that seriously affects LibreOffice.”…
25 Nov 2011
We are 100!
The LibreOffice Extensions Repository now has 100 projects listed. Congratulations to all community members involved in this success!
…20 Nov 2011
Interview with Björn Michaelsen about the Hackfest
(by Jorge Rodriguez and Hans de Vries)
Please, tell us something about you and your activities? And how you became involved with Open Source Software and LibreOffice?
I started to get involved with Open Source when I was still a student. I got involved quite a bit with Gentoo (the Linux distribution) in its early days, somewhere around Gentoo 1.2.…
15 Nov 2011
We have a DevRoom at FOSDEM!
LibreOffice has a DevRoom at FOSDEM!
FOSDEM is the premier open source developers conference, and the most significant developers conference for LibreOffice after the annual LibreOffice conference. Please find time to come if you can. Talk submissions about the LibreOffice project is welcome: development, infrastructure, marketing, code overviews, specific features etc. but must have a focus on, and be accessible to developers.…
14 Nov 2011
public BoD phone conferences every 2nd Wednesday
I am happy to announce, that the TDF BoD calls will take place every 2nd Wednesday at 1600 UTC, starting on November 16th, 2011, and are scheduled to run for one hour. Most calls will be public, but according to our Bylaws, there might be private calls as well. Their contents will be, in accordance with our Bylaws, be made public as soon as and when possible.…