
While many pandemic restrictions around the world are still in place, some smaller events are finally becoming possible. Sidorela Uku from the Albanian LibreOffice community reports from a recent event in Tirana, which hosted the LibreOffice Conference 2018:
There were eight people present at this meeting. We had a short presentation about LibreOffice – what it includes, and its features.
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Many projects in the LibreOffice community use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to communicate. This is a real-time text-based communication protocol that’s popular amongst many free and open source software projects.
We are moving our IRC channels to a new host, Libera.Chat, which is run by a Swedish non-profit organisation. Here’s an alphabetical list of the current channels – for more information, see our wiki:
- #libreoffice
- #libreoffice-de
- #libreoffice-design
- #libreoffice-dev
- #libreoffice-doc
- #libreoffice-fi
- #libreoffice-fr
- #libreoffice-gsoc
- #libreoffice-hackfest
- #libreoffice-NLP
- #libreoffice-qa
- #libreoffice-telegram
- #tdf-infra
Thanks to everyone who participates in our IRC channel discussions, and keeps LibreOffice moving forward!…

In 2020, the infrastructure team added new services, implemented a new Extensions and Templates site, and worked on a replacement for Ask LibreOffice
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version is here.)
LibreOffice’s infrastructure team is responsible for maintaining the hardware, virtual machines and services that enable the wider community to develop, market, test, localize and improve the software.…

LibreOffice’s Documentation Team writes, updates and translates many handbooks. These are full of tips, tricks and tutorials covering the whole office suite. You can find PDF and ODT versions on this page – but sometimes it’s nice to have a hard-copy, printed version, right?
Well, you can get those too! Our community has made these available via the online bookshop Lulu (which was started by Red Hat co-founder Bob Young).…
The Strategic Marketing Plan discussed in 2020 has introduced a couple of concepts – LibreOffice Ecosystem and LibreOffice Technology – which will be the cornerstone of LibreOffice marketing activities for the foreseeable future, and will be deployed on web properties, marketing materials, documents, presentations and merchandise for events. Now, we need high-impact visuals to stress the importance of these concepts for LibreOffice.…