LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2021

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

  • The biggest event in September for was the LibreOffice Conference 2021! It had to take place online again this year, due to the pandemic, but we still had hundreds of people around the world joining our live streams and taking part in the discussions.

Check out the new LibreOffice Development Blog!

Here on The Document Foundation’s blog, we post about general news and activities in the LibreOffice world. But now we have a dedicated development blog, set up by Hossein Nourikhah, who recently joined us as a Developer Community Architect.

Click here to view the first post

Hossein and others will post more updates in the coming weeks and months, helping new developers to get started with the LibreOffice codebase, and providing other insights.…

Fixing a LibreOffice bug in less than eight hours!

LibreOffice’s QA community works on identifying, testing and fixing bug reports from users around the world. Gabriele Ponzo, a long-time LibreOffice contributors and part of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee, tells us about how a bug was recently fixed in just under eight hours:

I’m particularly used to keyboard usage of LibreOffice, and thus I noticed that something I did really often wasn’t working anymore: searching backwards with the Find Toolbar.

First batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

Our online conference for 2021 took place last week, and we’ve already uploaded a bunch of videos from it! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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LibreOffice Conference 2021: Opening session

Here’s the opening session from last week’s LibreOffice Conference 2021!

More sessions to come, plus a playlist and PeerTube alternatives…

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LibreOffice 11th Anniversary

On September 28, 2010, LibreOffice was announced to the world. After 11 years, the project and its global community are amongst the largest in the FLOSS ecosystem, and LibreOffice Technology sets the development path for personal productivity.

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