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Job Search for a Development Mentor (#201711-01)

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be a Development Mentor to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following: Self-starting, remote working experience Experience contributing to FLOSS communities Excellent communication skills, with enthusiasm for mentoring Coding experience (LibreOffice coding preferred) Willingness to travel to Hackfests & conferences in Europe and globally The role involves working from home at your location for at least 20 hours per week, up to full-time and includes among other items: Supporting existing mentors in the LibreOffice community including: Building relationships between existing mentors and new contributors Identifying and on-boarding new contributors Affirming and encouraging their contribution Building initial relationships with them Encouraging them to join IRC to meet the teams Introducing them to domain experts for deeper learning Helping to educate new contributors by Positively reviewing their code contributions Introducing them to our tooling and culture Attracting new contributors by promoting the project Interaction with UX volunteers Previous experience with such tasks is highly welcome, so is using free software. Speaking and writing English reasonably well is a mandatory requirement. The

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Updates from events: Turkey, Taiwan and Japan

Today marks five years since The Document Foundation (TDF) was legally incorporated in Berlin, Germany. We want to celebrate this anniversary by highlighting some recent activities and events from our Native Language Projects. These communities have been instrumental to the growth of TDF and LibreOffice, and are one of our most important assets. Turkey The Turkish community recently attended the Academic Informatics Conference 2017 in Aksaray, from 8 to 10 of February, with several LibreOffice related activities. A general presentation was done by Muhammet Kara and Gökhan Gurbetoğlu in the first session (first half of the first day). In the second half of the first day, the attendees were introduced to the LibreOffice development environment, and the tools used in the process (Gerrit, Vim, Git…). The attendees were walked through the process of joining the LibreOffice community, and building the LibreOffice source code for the first time. Attendees who had relatively older computers were provided with SSH access to a 32-core machine, courtesy of TUBITAK ULAKBIM. The last session (first half of the second day) was held like a hackfest. Questions from attendees were answered by the speakers. LibreOffice community members were pleased to see that the participants were eager

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Annual Report 2015

The Document Foundation (TDF) is proud to announce its 2015 Annual Report, which can be downloaded from the following link: http://tdf.io/report2015 (3.6 MB PDF). The version with HD images can be downloaded from http://tdf.io/report2015hq (22.1 MB PDF). TDF Annual Report starts with a Review of 2015, with highlights about TDF and LibreOffice, and a summary of financials and budget. Community, Projects & Events covers the LibreOffice Conference 2015 in Aahrus, Certification, Website and QA, Hackfests in Brussels, Gran Canaria, Cambridge, Hamburg, Terni and Madrid, Native-Language Projects, Infrastructure, Documentation, Marketing and Design. Software, Development & Code reports about the activities of the Engineering Steering Committee, LibreOffice Development, Google Summer of Code, and the Document Liberation Project. The last section focuses on People, starting with Top Contributors, followed by TDF Staff, the Board of Directors and the Membership Committee, the Board of Trustees, or the body of TDF Members, and the Advisory Board. To allow the widest distribution of the document, this is released with a CC BY 3.0 DE License, unless otherwise noted, to TDF Members and free software advocates worldwide.

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TDF Marketing Activity (and a Debian Bug Squashing Party!)

As we head towards the second half of the year – and an exciting new release of LibreOffice in August – I wanted to recap some work from the Marketing Team that I’ve been involved in over the last few months. But before that, I’d also like to say congratulations to the LiMux team for a great Debian Bug Squashing Party! LiMux is a project by the City of Munich to transition away from proprietary software and closed document formats to free software and open standards. GNU/Linux and LibreOffice are key components in this migration, and on 27 – 29 May the LiMux offices hosted a Debian Bug Squashing Party. As the name suggests, this is a mini hackfest where developers work to fix bugs in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (and related software). LiMux is based on Kubuntu, which in turn builds on Debian’s mighty foundations; other developers associated with KDE, Kolab and LibreOffice were present as well. Lots of hacking was done and bugs fixed – but it was also a great opportunity just to chat about the state of LiMux, make new contacts, and try great food! The Indian dishes on the first evening were especially good… Marketing

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Behind the scenes at TDF: NLP/L10n

In the first quarter of 2016 a lot of work has been carried out by the community. On the events side, FOSDEM gathered several LibreOffice members together, and a face-to-face meeting with the Pootle team took place to discuss further fixes and enhancements needed by our localization team. In the meantime, the board has approved the budget to implement those features and work is being carried out. The German community went to the DIDACTA trade fair (and wrote a nice report in several languages) and also attended the full week at CeBIT. Guess what? Our Japanese team organized 14 events since the beginning of the year – kudos to them for their energy, enthusiasm and dedication! The Indian team also organized four LibreOffice meetups since January where localisation (l10n) for Garhwali and Angika began during one of them. One of the meetups was a hackathon dedicated to l10n QA. Don’t hesitate to subscribe to the LibreIndia Facebook page, as each event is announced and reported there. And there is much more to report on what’s happening this quarter, like the hackfests in Ankara (Turkey) and the LibreOffice summit in the city of Las Palmas (Spain). I’m so happy to see

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Keeping track of LibreOffice activity

LibreOffice is a big project, with over 7 million lines of source code and hundreds of developers, testers, translators and other contributors spread across the globe. With so much activity going on, it can be difficult to keep track of recent developments – so here are a few pointers to keep you in the loop. Upcoming releases The current supported release of LibreOffice is 5.1, and the latest bug-fix version is 5.1.3. There are three more bug-fix updates due this year, so see this wiki page for information on the release schedule. The last planned update will be 5.1.6, due in October. Meanwhile, the development team is working hard on LibreOffice 5.2, which is scheduled to be released in the first week of August. A beta version (for testing) is due very soon – keep an eye on this blog for more information. You can also see a mid-development list of new features in 5.2, but bear in mind that everything is subject to change! Team calls Many teams inside the LibreOffice project have regular audio or video calls to catch up, share ideas and ask questions. These teams also share minutes (notes) from the meetings afterwards, so that others

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Press Releases

LibreOffice 26.8.1 improves compatibility and text import

Berlin, 2 October 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.1, the first minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family,…

Open Document Format

LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read

LibreOffice 26.8 adds basic support for importing and exporting a range of chart types that Microsoft Office includes in OOXML…