LibreOffice Conference 2022 Schedule

The schedule of the LibreOffice Conference 2022, to be held in Milan from September 29, to October 1st, has been published: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2022/schedule/. Please check it on a regular basis, as changes will be reflected in real time, even during the conference.

The app for Android with the schedule (also in real time) is live on Google Play and F-Droid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.metadude.android.libreoffice.schedule

10,000 followers on Mastodon!

The LibreOffice project is on Mastodon, a free, open-source and federated social media service (with similar features to Twitter). Specifically, we’ve been on the Fosstodon server since April 2019 – and now we have 10,000 followers! A huge thanks to everyone who supports us there 😊

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LibreOffice 7.3.6 Community has been released

Berlin, September 8, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family for Windows, macOS (for Apple and Intel silicon) and Linux, targeted at personal productivity users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. The LibreOffice 7.3 family offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.…

The Latin American LibreOffice 2022 Conference was a success!

Female volunteering, interoperability, professional training, migration, Python based macro development and much more were highlighted themes at the event held at the Catholic University of Brasilia in the capital of Brazil.

Daniel A. Rodriguez writes:

The Latin American LibreOffice Conference gathered around 400 people, among them students and IT professionals, and was opened to the public on Thursday August 25th in a ceremony presided by Prof.…

Membership Committee Election 2022: Q+A sessions with the candidates

The Document Foundation 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.

The election process for a new MC is underway, and we’ve had three live Q+A sessions with the candidates! Check them out in this playlist, using the icon in the top-right to switch videos (and we’ll put them on PeerTube very soon):

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Community Member Monday: Jean-Baptiste Faure

Today we’re talking to Jean-Baptiste Faure from the LibreOffice localisation community

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am Jean-Baptiste, living in a small town near Lyon in France.

I retired in 2021, and until then I was working as a researcher in hydroinformatics in a public research institute. I was developing numerical simulation software for the study of river flows and their dynamics: mainly floods and pollutant transport.…