LibreOffice Documentation Updates in 2022 – Annual Report

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In 2022, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks and the Help application

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

New and translated guides

Throughout the year, the documentation project closed the gap between LibreOffice’s major releases, and the updates of the corresponding user guides.…

Success story: Fixing a limitation in LibreOffice Calc

Ever heard the term “scratching your own itch”? Wiktionary describes it as “doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem”. In the world of free and open source software development, this happens a lot! Anyone can contribute to FOSS projects like LibreOffice, and help to improve them.

And that’s exactly what Rafael Lima did, with a long-standing limitation in LibreOffice.…

Hispanic LibreOffice community at esLibre Conference 2023

Xisco Fauli from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) writes:

On May 12 and 13, the esLibre Conference took place in Zaragoza, Spain and the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community took the opportunity to meet in person and talk about the project.

Ismael Fanlo presented a workshop about pivot tables

…while Juan Carlos Sanz first gave a talk about LibreOffice Base, and later presented a workshop about how to use LibreOffice Base along with MySQL or MariaDB:

Next, Fran Ruedas, Rafael Espinar and Antonio J.…

Attracting New Contributors: TDF’s Annual Report 2022

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Bringing new community members on board and helping them get started is an essential part of our work. Here’s what we did in 2022

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Onboarding tools and sites

Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many.…

Month of LibreOffice, May 2023 – Half-way point!

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So far, 202 sticker packs have been awarded in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023. But we’re only half of the way through – so if your name (or username) isn’t on the list, join in, help to make LibreOffice even better, and get some cool swag! We’ll have 10 bonus pieces of merchandise to give away, to 10 lucky people…

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How to take part

So, let’s get started!…

Live streaming LibreOffice bug triaging – your experiences (part 2)

Ilmari Lauhakangas

LibreOffice’s QA (Quality Assurance) community helps to identify and fix bugs in the software. Every week, Ilmari Lauhakangas from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) live-streams bug triaging sessions, so that others can see how he works on bug reports, and ask him questions.

Last week, we talked to Tammy Lawson and “bunk3m” about their experiences with the live streams.…