The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock 30 years ago, on August 16, 1993. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. And we celebrate with them, as they are one of the organizations supporting the LibreOffice project since day one.
16 Aug 2023
Debian Day
16 Aug 2023
Weblate (translation tool) improvements funded by TDF
Weblate is a free and open source software (FOSS) translation tool, with version control features. It’s used by many projects around the world, including LibreOffice, Fedora and openSUSE, to assist their communities with translating user interfaces, documentation, and other aspects of software.
Because we in the LibreOffice project use Weblate, we wanted to contribute back and help to fund fixes and improvements.…
09 Aug 2023
Double Gift for the Community: Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5
The community documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5. The guides are updated to the latest LibreOffice release as a community effort to keep our literature sharp and up to date.
The double gift is brought to you by Peter Schofield with valuable contributions by Socks Eight, members of the documentation team.…
03 Aug 2023
The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2022
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regards to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.
We’ve been posting sections of the 2022 report here on the blog, and now the full version is available in PDF format on TDF’s Nextcloud server in two different versions: low resolution (8.2MB) and high resolution (57.4MB).…
02 Aug 2023
LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2023
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…
- We started July by welcoming Michael Weghorn to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Michael is a developer and will initially focus on accessibility improvements.
- Talking of the TDF team: in June, team members met in Munich to discuss ideas and proposals for the community and software.
28 Jul 2023
Czech translation of LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4 – and more news
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
…The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. As usual it was team work, namely: translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad; localized pictures by Roman Toman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!