24 Dec 2021
Best Wishes from TDF
Dear community members, TDF members, Advisory board members, team members, membership committee and board!
Another year marked by the global pandemic is coming to an end these days. In addition to all the depressing news and circumstances that affect us all, there are also pleasing and uplifting developments.
Apart from the painfully missed opportunity to meet in person, be it in the local communities or at our annual conference, we have nevertheless achieved so much together, worked together and brought our foundation forward, so that we can already say that it was one of the most successful years for and with our project.…
23 Dec 2021
2021: The Year the LibreOffice Documentation Team Shined
2021 is ending, so let’s recap our achievements and look forward for 2022. It has been a very tough year for all of us in our professional or personal matters, and for sure worsened by the persisting pandemic, even with the release of the COVID vaccines.
But this year was a great documentation year after all.…
17 Dec 2021
LibreOffice has been awarded the Editor’s Pick badge by Software Informer
This is Software Informer’s editor rating.
Work with document files either imported from programs like MS Word, Excel and other office tools or created natively in formats like ODF or PDF compatible with modern and open standards. Editing, copying and incorporating data in databases is possible.
LibreOffice is an open-source free alternative to heavy commercial office suites like MS Office.…
16 Dec 2021
Two ODF Toolkit releases in a row!
ODF is the Open Document Format, the native format used by LibreOffice (and supported by many other apps too). Then there’s the ODF Toolkit, a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of ODF files. Svante Schubert writes with some updates:
We are happy to announce that there have been recently two ODF Toolkit releases in a row.…
15 Dec 2021
PRELIMINARY results of the elections for the next Board of Directors at The Document Foundation
TDF Membership Committee announces the PRELIMINARY results of the elections for the next Board of Directors at The Document Foundation.
The number of TDF Members who voted is 120, from a total amount of 211 eligible voters. This means that 91 TDF Members did not vote. The Membership Committee would like to thanks all the voters, as the elections are the most significant time of the year for TDF Members, because they can decide about the project’s governance.…