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Membership Committee elections: Townhall sessions with the candidates

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes.

TDF would like to run “townhall” discussion sessions with the candidates for this year’s membership committee election and invite all the community. We will plan with three different sessions to accommodate for three different time zones.

The sessions will take place on our Jitsi instance.

The first session, for the BRT timezone, will be Monday, August 26, 2100 BRT (which is Tuesday, August 27, 0900 JST, 0000 UTC, 0200 CEST) – Time zone converter

The second session, for the CEST timezone, will be Tuesday, August 27, 2100 CEST, 1600 BRT, 1900 UTC (which is Wednesday, August 28, 0400 JST) – Time zone converter

The third session, for the JST timezone, will be Wednesday, August 28, 2100 JST, 0900 BRT, 1200 UTC, 1400 CEST – Time zone converter

Some notes

  • Please note that for two of the meetings, depending on the timezone they take place at different days.
  • We plan with two hours duration for each session.
  • Sessions are not mandatory to participate in the elections. They are an offer for candidates and community members.
  • Everyone is invited to all the sessions, independent of the timezone.
  • We welcome translators from the communities, so questions can be asked in different languages.
  • We will try to record the sessions. By participating to the sessions you agree that you will be recorded with audio, video and chat. If you do not want that, you can participate anonymously and listen-only.
  • Please mute yourself while you are not speaking.

We invite everyone to send in their questions for the townhall sessions in advance to the public board-discuss forum.

Each session will have a moderator who chooses some of the questions to be asked during the townhall meetings. Candidates are also free to answer questions on board-discuss before or after the sessions.

LibreOffice in the Microsoft Store: 15% “back to school” discount

LibreOffice in the Microsoft Store

LibreOffice is always free to download from our website, but it’s also available in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which covers the costs of putting it there, and helps to sustain future development of the suite.

Currently there’s a special “back to school” offer, and LibreOffice is included, with a 15% discount on the usual price. So if you want to get LibreOffice from the Microsoft Store and help to fund its development – but also save a bit of money – then now’s your chance!

Click here to visit LibreOffice on the store

Community Member Monday: Khushi Gautam

Khushi Gautam

Tell us a bit about yourself!

Hi, I am so glad to be a part of this community. I live in Delhi, India. Currently, I am a software developer serving at Amazon MiniTV.

I have experience in both frontend and backend development for mobile and web applications. I graduated a year ago with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technical University.

I’ve been involved in the open source community since my first year of undergrad, starting with AnitaB, and then moving on to ODK-X. My major contributions have been to LibreOffice.

In my free time, I love writing articles, trying out different cuisines, and meeting new people. I also enjoy traveling and exploring new places with my friends and family.

What are you working on in the LibreOffice project right now?

I’m currently working on fixing bugs in my Outreachy project, “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find”, alongside Google Summer of Code students to make further progress. This feature was something I created during my internship at LibreOffice.

Why did you choose to join the project, and how was the experience?

LibreOffice includes applications like Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Base, and is the default suite for Linux. I started my journey with LibreOffice as an Outreachy applicant, which was my first time contributing to LibreOffice and interacting with other developers on the IRC channel. After researching various organizations and projects, I chose to contribute to the “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find” project because it aligned with my skills as a C++ developer.

LibreOffice screenshot: Sidebar Deck for Quick Find

Weekly mentoring chats with Ilmari Lauhakangas were incredibly helpful during the contribution phase. He guided me in setting up my project locally and introduced me to starter tasks, which made me more comfortable with the project and the organization. I also learned to operate Gerrit and successfully made my first patch.

Later, I was selected as an Outreachy intern to work on the “Sidebar Deck for Quick Find” project. My mentors, Jim Raykowski and Heiko Tietze, were instrumental in making the project successful. I was thrilled when my patch for the feature was merged after three months of hard work.

My experience with LibreOffice was enriching, as I got to work closely with the entire codebase, something I always wanted to do. The community is very supportive, and I’m looking forward to meeting them in person at the upcoming conference.

Anything else you plan to do in the future?

These days, I’m aiming to join a multinational corporation as a backend developer and hope to achieve this goal soon. I also aspire to join LibreOffice as a developer. Even though I’m already contributing, I love that open source allows me to continue working freely. Additionally, I plan to create a wiki for the feature I’ve developed and take ownership of presenting it to the world upon its launch.

What does LibreOffice really need?

I would say: more developers and contributors like me!

Big thanks to Khushi for all her contributions! Everyone is welcome to join our community, build new skills, and help to make LibreOffice even better for the whole world 😊

Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre is co-organising the LibreOffice Conference 2024

LMDDC logo

The LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is coming up, taking place on October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg. And we’re happy to announce that the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre (LMDDC) has joined as a co-organiser. So what do they do?

The Luxembourg Media and Digital Design Centre (LMDDC) is an Economic Interest Grouping gathering the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), created to support national activities related to digital learning and to operate service and innovation platforms.

LMDDC will be in charge of the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference’s EdTech track. They say:

We are thrilled that the Document Foundation has chosen #Luxembourg this year and are looking forward to a very promising event in #Belval, bringing together organisations and institutions that, like us, create, work with and promote Free and Open Source Software.

LMDDC joins other conference organisers and supporters including Digital Learning Hub Luxembourg, 42 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Université du Luxembourg’s SnT, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, as well as the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, Business Events Luxembourg – Luxembourg Convention Bureau G.I.E. and LU-CIX. More information in this post.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the conference!

LibreOffice Conference 2024: Extending the Call for Papers deadline

LibreOffice Conference 2024 banner

Come and give a talk at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2024 which will take place from October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg!

Our Call for Papers is open, and we are extending the submission deadline until August 31. But note: only speakers who submit before August 15 will get a hotel room provided by The Document Foundation. After that, we can’t be sure that rooms will be available. So if you want to give a talk, let us know ASAP!

Click here to submit your proposal

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