The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2023.
Emiliano Vavassori, Deputy Chairperson in The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, give us an update on recent events in Italy:
As in every spring, the Pordenone Linux Users Group (PNlug) organizes an internal event inside the local ham radio/electronics fair, «Fiera del Radioamatore», called Linux Arena.…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
Throughout the year, the documentation project closed the gap between LibreOffice’s major releases, and the updates of the corresponding user guides.…
Ever heard the term “scratching your own itch”? Wiktionary describes it as “doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem”. In the world of free and open source software development, this happens a lot! Anyone can contribute to FOSS projects like LibreOffice, and help to improve them.
And that’s exactly what Rafael Lima did, with a long-standing limitation in LibreOffice.…
Xisco Fauli from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) writes:
On May 12 and 13, the esLibre Conference took place in Zaragoza, Spain and the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community took the opportunity to meet in person and talk about the project.
Ismael Fanlo presented a workshop about pivot tables…
…while Juan Carlos Sanz first gave a talk about LibreOffice Base, and later presented a workshop about how to use LibreOffice Base along with MySQL or MariaDB:
Next, Fran Ruedas, Rafael Espinar and Antonio J.…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many.…