LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2023

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 May with the Month of LibreOffice! This is a campaign that we run twice a year, encouraging users to join our community and help to improve the software. Everyone can learn new things – and get some merchandise as thanks! Results will be announced here on the blog very soon… Also early in May, we announced LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor update to the 7.3 branch. All users are recommended to upgrade. (We also announced LibreOffice 7.4.7, the last release of the 7.4 family.) LibreOffice’s YouTube channel went over the 3 million views mark. Great stuff! We’d like to say a special thanks to community members who’ve contributed great work, such as the Indonesian community for the “New Features” videos (major LibreOffice releases), and Harald B. in the German community for his tutorials. (Note that many of the videos are also available on PeerTube.) Our QA (Quality Assurance) community helps to identify and fix bugs in LibreOffice. Every week, Ilmari Lauhakangas from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) live-streams bug triaging

LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2023

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 noting Microsoft’s plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – and other services – significantly. And not just once, but every six months there are to be “price adjustments”. Of course, LibreOffice (and LibreOffice Technology-based products) comes to the rescue! Next up, we reported about our policy-related activities in the European Union. TDF is backing campaigns to support free and open source software (FOSS) in the EU – and raise awareness of problems with the “Cyber Resilience Act”, amongst others. Talking of FOSS, we looked at how free and open source software continues to grow, as shown by data provided by reports of analysts, and by declarations of users. Over 76% of IT managers have increased the use of open source software during 2022, while almost 22% have not changed the amount, and less than 2% have reduced it. Throughout the month, we posted sections from The Document Foundation’s Annual Report 2022. The full version will be online soon – but in the meantime, you can find out

LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2022

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 May with the Month of LibreOffice. This is an event that we run twice a year, awarding sticker packs (and the chance to win more merchandise) to everyone who contributes to LibreOffice. We posted an update later in May – and we’ll soon post the final results on this blog! During the month, we released two updates to the suite: LibreOffice 7.3.3 on May 5, and 7.2.7 on May 12. (The latter is the last release in the LibreOffice 7.2 series. Also, LibreOffice is now available to download on SourceForge. Next up: we posted various sections from our Annual Report 2021, which describes activities in The Document Foundation and our projects. First was LibreOffice Quality Assurance in 2021, followed by TDF’s infrastructure and Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice. In documentation news, the Czech community announced a translation of the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.3. Many thanks to community members for all their work! Then we had updates about the LibreOffice Conference 2022, which will take place in Mikan, northern Italy from September 28

LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Throughout the month, we posted sections from our Annual Report 2021, covering activities at The Document Foundation and in the LibreOffice project. First was LibreOffice in 2021, followed by TDF, our yearly conference, and documentation community activities. Stay tuned for more sections – and the full report! How do different free and open source software projects do mentorship, and how can we all learn from each other? Daniel Garcia Moreno (EndlessOS Foundation and GNOME), Emily Gonyer (openSUSE), Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation), and Marie Nordin (Fedora) discuss this in a panel moderated by Ben Cotton: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Later in April, we republished an open letter covering the “Right to Install any Software on any Device”. Find out more about it here. Lastly, we announced that the Latin-American LibreOffice Conference 2022 will

LibreOffice project monthly recap: June 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started June by announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021! In the end, 406 contributors won sticker packs – making it the most successful ever. And we had some extra merchandise to give away too! On June 10, LibreOffice 7.1.4 Community was made available for download, with 80 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Thanks as always to our volunteers and certified developers for their work on it! In technology news, The Document Foundation announced and updated three tenders during the month: implement automated ODF filter regression testing, implement master document fixes and implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP. If you have some C++ coding knowledge and experience with LibreOffice’s codebase, take a look. In June we also posted some sections from our Annual Report 2020: Documentation Team Activities, Website, blogs and social media and Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice. Hossein Nourikhah joined the TDF team as Developer Community Architect. He’ll help to onboard new developers in the project, give them code pointers, and assist them as they add new features. Welcome, Hossein! Meanwhile, ODF 1.3 was announced as an OASIS standard. ODF (OpenDocument Format) is

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. The maximum number of connections was around 27 people for both. We are grateful to The Document Foundation and iCraft for sponsoring the event. Thank you very much! The day’s events can be viewed on the YouTube archive. The slides are available on the TDF wiki. The keynote speaker, Ahmad Haris, who leads the Indonesian community for LibreOffice, gave an introduction to our work in Indonesia. Indonesia is made up of many islands scattered over a wide area, and is the equivalent in distance of London to Baghdad. The local LibreOffice Conference in Indonesia in 2018 was a success and the community is very active. Currently there are 795 participants in the LibreOffice Indonesia Telegram group. Translation is focused on UI, then Help, while QA events