This year’s pre-eminent European Free Software conference: FOSDEM (Brussels 5-6th February) will have a great LibreOffice presence. We have just published our developer room schedule with some great speakers and talks. Come and hear about how you can get involved with developing LibreOffice, and/or pop by the stand to meet the people behind the project. Hope to see you there next month.
According to this posting, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-January/032298.html, Ubuntu 11.04 will ship LibreOffice instead of OOo. Several other distributions are rumored to at least ship LibreOffice by default. Great times ahead!
Now that the new year has started, we will also start a new round of public phone conferences. If you want to participate, you can cast your vote on the date and time at Doodle. For the marketing phone conference, see details at http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/msg01800.html and for the steering committee call at http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/msg00366.html
More information on the calls itself as well as the agenda is available in the wiki at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls respectively http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings
The LibreOffice website is live! http://www.libreoffice.org and http://de.libreoffice.org as well as other languages.
Dear Community,
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the second release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3. This release comes with lots of improvements and bugfixes, and a very substantial reduction in size for the Windows installer. As usual, be warned that this is beta quality software – nevertheless, we ask you to play with it – we very much welcome your feedback and testing!
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To our Community, dear users and loyal friends:
It’s been nearly three months since The Document Foundation began to breathe, and it is no secret I convey when I say that these months have been the most challenging, but also the most exciting and most fascinating moments in the life of our free office suite. In just a short period of time, something very big has grown out of an idea’s small seed, and all of you are a part of it and contributed so much to its success.
Time passes by so soon and now the end of the year is at the doorsteps. As we are approaching the holiday season, I would personally like to take the opportunity of wishing you, your friends and families a blessed and merry Christmas, many peaceful and silent days with your beloved ones and people you care about, and a happy, healthy and successful New Year, that shall make you reach your goals and make your dreams come true.
I would like to thank you for being a part of the LibreOffice Community, for all the good and wonderful things you contribute — we are very much looking forward to working with you in 2011!
Merry Christmas!
Florian
