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The Document Foundation announces the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024

Berlin, 25 September 2024 – The LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 will take place in Luxembourg from the 10 to the 12 October 2024. It will be hosted by the Digital Learning Hub and the local campus of 42 Luxembourg at the Terres Rouges buildings in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette.

This is a key event that brings together the LibreOffice community – supporting the leading FOSS office suite – with a large number of stakeholders: large open source projects, international organizations and representatives from EU institutions and European government departments.…

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Luxembourg Ministry for Digitalisation contributing to the LibreOffice Conference 2024

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Our LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is taking place in a few weeks in Luxembourg, and the country’s Ministry for Digitalisation wrote to tell us:

We are pleased to contribute to the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference with a speech by Luxembourg’s Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin and a presentation of Luxchat4Gov by project manager, Patrick Weber.

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Join the LibreOffice Development Workshop at our upcoming conference!

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Hossein Nourikhah, our Developer Community Architect, writes:

Learn LibreOffice development and boost your software skills including bug management, coding, version management using Git, code review using Gerrit and much more! Our workshop titled “Introduction to LibreOffice development” at the LibreOffice Conference 2024 is a great opportunity for all those who love getting involved with a world wide open source community.…

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Bring back Free Software funding: Give your feedback to the European Commission

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Free Software (like LibreOffice) is about far more than just zero-cost. It’s about the freedom to use, share and modify the software that we all rely on. Our friends over at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) write:

The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow the EU to control its own technology.

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LibreOffice 24.8.1, the first minor release of the recently announced LibreOffice 24.8 family, is available for download

The LibreOffice 24.8 family is optimised for the privacy-conscious office suite user who wants full control over the information they share

Berlin, 12 September 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download…

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V Latin American LibreOffice Congress – A meeting point for the entire Latin American community

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Our community in the region writes:

After successful previous events in Paraguay, Brazil and Mexico, the largest event of the LibreOffice project in Latin America arrives in Uruguay.

With the aim of bringing together users and collaborators to promote the dissemination of knowledge and experiences related to LibreOffice, the 2024 edition of the Latin American Congress will be held on December 5 and 6, at Espacio Colabora, in Montevideo.…

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Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3

Berlin, 13 November 2025 - LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity…

Open Document Format

Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News

I decided to start the current campaign, with one blog post per week focusing on the different aspects of Open…