Every major release of LibreOffice includes new features, thanks to our community of volunteer and ecosystem developers. But what can you do, if you want a new feature in LibreOffice but don’t have the technical know-how to implement it?
If you’re in a large company, you can engage with the LibreOffice ecosystem to get professional support.…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
The mission of the Membership Committee (MC) is to administer membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in The Document Foundation’s Foundation’s Statutes.…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
On February 2, LibreOffice 7.3 was officially released after six months of work.…
Open source continues to grow, as shown by data provided by reports of analysts (top left & right) and by declarations of users (bottom left & right).
Top Left: In two years, proprietary software is expected to shrink from 45% to 37% while enterprise open source is expected to grow from 29% to 34%.…
The Document Foundation, thanks to the widespread popularity of LibreOffice, is recognized as one of the largest FOSS organizations worldwide, and especially in Europe (where the project was born over 20 years ago). Because of this, during the last couple of years TDF has been involved in several discussions about policies which can affect or are affecting the adoption of FOSS, or the freedom of users’ choice for hardware, operating systems and software.…
Microsoft plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – and other services – significantly (article in German here). And not just once, but every six months there are to be “price adjustments”.
This is of course a problem for many businesses, organisations, schools and local governments that have limited resources.…