TDF Membership Committee election 2024 – Second live Q+A session

As announced earlier in the month, we’re running live “Q+A” sessions for candidates in The Document Foundation’s upcoming Membership Committee election. Here’s a recording from the second session (PeerTube version here):

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LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing

Our Taiwanese community reports back from a recent event:

The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 was held in Taipei from 2 – 3 August. This conference was suspended for several years due to the pandemic and was relaunched in Indonesia last year.

In addition to the local community, there were many partners from the Japanese and Indonesian communities, as well as experts from Germany and Italy, representing The Documentation Foundation and the Open Document Format Technical Committee, who attended this conference.…

Community Member Monday: Gladys David

Gladys David

Today we’re talking to Gladys David, who is helping out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) project…

Hi! My name is gladys, I’m 41 years old and I’m French. I’ve been living in Espoo (Finland) for about six years – it’s a country where I always wanted to live. Previously I stayed in London for 10 years, and was in France before that.…

Community announces the Getting Started Guide 24.8

The book is released on time for the new LibreOffice 24.8 release.

Getting Started Guide 24.8

The community members of the LibreOffice documentation team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Getting Started Guide 24.8, at the same time of the release of LibreOffice Community 24.8, our latest major update.

The book is for anyone who wants to get up-to-speed quickly with LibreOffice 24.8.…

LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user

The new major release provides a wealth of new features, plus a large number of interoperability improvements

Berlin, 22 August 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux is available from our download page. This is the second major release to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M),…

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024 near Bonn!

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

FrOSCon is a yearly free and open source software (FOSS) conference that takes place in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany. And this year, the LibreOffice community was present! We had a stand with information flyers and merchandise, including stickers, pens, beer/coffee mats and more:

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

Over the two days, many people visited our stand and asked us questions: what are we working on, when the next release is due (in a few days!),…