LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be organized by a group of volunteers from the 1&1 software company, which is integrating LibreOffice into the Online Office product for GMX and WEB.DE portals, at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University Politehnica of Bucharest from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23. The conference will open on Thursday, September 21, with the opening session followed by technical tracks, and will end on Saturday, September 23, with the closing session.…
01 Mar 2023
LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania
28 Feb 2023
LibreOffice installer improvements coming, thanks to Ximena Alcaman, Rachael Odetayo and Outreachy
Today we’re talking to Ximena Alcaman, who is working on LibreOffice installer improvements as part of the Outreachy programme. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.
Ximena is working alongside Rachael Odetayo on the LibreOffice installer, and is being mentored by Marina Latini and Jussi Pakkanen, with support from sponsors SUSE and The Document Foundation.…
23 Feb 2023
The Document Foundation is now on Mastodon!
You may know that the LibreOffice project has been on Mastodon for a few years – it’s a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter).
Well, now we’ve created an account for The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity coordinating the LibreOffice community! And we already have a bunch of followers – so thanks to everyone who supports us there 😊
Click here to follow @tdforg, and get regular updates about our work
…23 Feb 2023
LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2023!
Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.
But another great source of new features is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with open source organisations on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.…
17 Feb 2023
LibreOffice Dark Mode: Manual switch to enable/disable coming in 7.5.1
LibreOffice 7.5 introduced a new Dark Mode, activated automatically to match your system settings. But many of you asked for a manual switch, so our Design community has implemented it for the next update – LibreOffice 7.5.1, in two weeks!
Follow the Design community’s activities on Mastodon and Twitter
…16 Feb 2023
LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2023
Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions. Lothar summarised the event:
…It was well attended. Many known contacts, as well as new visitors, came by the stand and informed themselves or asked about LibreOffice – but also its availability in app stores for all platforms.