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.…

LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 is released

The new Calc Guide 7.4 bring updated information for users on the latest LibreOffice 7.4 release.

Skip Masonsmith and Kees Kriek of the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4.

The guide is for beginner to advanced users of Calc, the spreadsheet component of LibreOffice. The book introduces the features and functions of LibreOffice Calc.…

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

Live town-hall meetings with the Membership Committee 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’ll have live Q&A sessions with the candidates!

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Community Member Monday: Mauricio Baeza

Today we’re talking to Mauricio Baeza (aka “El Mau”) from the Mexican LibreOffice community…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in Mexico City. My hobbies are reading, watching movies and helping other people, and my cats.

What are you working on right now?

I am developing a library in Python to help develop macros more easy.…

Congratulations to all community members, on the release of LibreOffice 7.4!

Yesterday, The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 7.4, our latest major release. TDF helped to coordinate the release, but most of the work was done by community volunteers and certified developers in the ecosystem.

We at TDF would like to say a big thanks to everyone who helped out – but don’t just take it from us!…