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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started December by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023. 363 contributors were eligible to claim sticker packs – and we gave out some bonus merch to 10 special winners too! Then we talked to Robert Cabane, who’s helping out in LibreOffice’s QA community. On December 5, our documentation community announced the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.6, reflecting the changes and updates in the newest version of the suite. Great work, everyone! 💪 We had two updates for the software in December: LibreOffice 7.6.4 and 7.5.9. All users are recommended to download and install the latest releases. Meanwhile, we prepared a Security Backgrounder document that describes – in language accessible to everyone, including non-security specialists – the impressive work done by developers and quality assurance specialists in the area of LibreOffice security. The second of our community interviews was with Dominique Prieur, who gives courses on LibreOffice and is working with the Orléans prison in France to develop office automation workshops. Suraj Bhattarai, our Liaison for the LibreOffice Nepali Community, sent us a

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We kicked off November with the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023, a campaign we run every six months. The results will be announced on this blog very soon 😊 Next up was the release of LibreOffice 7.5.8, a maintenance release for the 7.5 branch with compatibility improvements and bug fixes. Our documentation community released Impress and Draw guides for LibreOffice 7.6. They’re well worth reading, if you use the presentation and diagram parts of the suite. Big thanks to everyone who contributed! What is The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice? We posted a video from our recent conference, where the Membership Committee explains all. Later in the month, we also posted a video from the Engineering Steering Committee about their work. Then we talked to Jean-Francois Nifenecker who’s working on LibreOffice extensions and macros, and more… LibreOffice is free (as in freedom) software. And our friends at the Free Software Foundation Europe handed over an Open Letter “The right to install any software on any device” to the German parliament, to support sustainability and freedom

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month by highlighting upcoming events: the LibreOffice Conference 2023 (which has now finished – more on that in a moment); the Latin American Conference, and LibreOffice Conf.Asia. Next up, we had a bunch of LibreOffice Expert magazines to give away to schools and local communities. They’ve all been claimed now, but if you still want a copy, you can get one from the publisher. On September 11, we announced 1.5 million downloads of the new LibreOffice 7.6 family! And we had some more stats to share too… Then our Documentation community announced the LibreOffice Writer Guide 7.6 – an essential accompaniment to the software. Great work, everyone 😊 This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Five projects were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and we presented some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 24.2 in early February 2024! The biggest event