Which is your perception of the project, as seen from the outside world?
I see LibreOffice project as an alternative path. The road to office productivity suites doesn’t have to end up in proprietary office applications and file formats. LibreOffice project is a way out, trying to provide freedom to the users, alongside providing user friendly, cost efficient products that are also accessible for the disabled people.…
30 Jun 2021
Interview with Hossein Nourikhah
29 Jun 2021
LibreOffice Kaigi 2021 – Online event in Japan
Shinji Enoki reports from an event in Japan (original text here)…
LibreOffice Kaigi 2021 Online was held on Saturday, June 12, 2021. This is normally an annual gathering in Japan, originally scheduled for March 2020 in Osaka – but due to COVID-19 we were unable to hold it. This year, for the first time, the meeting was held online, with speakers and participants joining the Jitsi meet, which was also broadcast live on YouTube.…
25 Jun 2021
Annual Report 2020: Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice
Bringing new community members on board and helping them get started is an essential part of our work. Here’s what we did in 2020
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
Onboarding tools and sites
Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many.…
23 Jun 2021
ODF 1.3 is an OASIS Standard
The Document Foundation is pleased to announce that LibreOffice’s native document format – the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) 1.3 – has been approved as OASIS Standard with 14 affirmative consents and no objections. ODF is a free, open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical elements.…
22 Jun 2021
Design the LibreOffice Conference 2021 logo!
Our next LibreOffice Conference will take place from September 23-25, 2021 (and it’ll be online, due to the ongoing pandemic situation). LibreOffice developers, supporters and users from around the world will share their work, ideas and suggestions. And we’ll have fun with online social events and more!
But we need a logo. For last year’s conference, we had a competition and Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia won with this great design, which includes the openSUSE logo too, as it was a joint conference:
So, got some ideas for this year’s conference?…
21 Jun 2021
Community Member Monday: Manuel Frassinetti
Today we’re chatting with Manuel Frassinetti from our Italian LibreOffice community, who recently became a Member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I’m from Modena, Italy and I’m still living in this city. I’m just a normal free software user – a GNU/Linux user since 2001.…