Meet the team at The Document Foundation

LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world, working on code, documentation, QA, translations, marketing, infrastructure and much more. Coordinating the project’s activities is the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Let’s see what the team members do: 1. Christian Lohmaier, Release Engineer Christian’s typical tasks include taking care of the continuous integration system (both the automation server and the build machines), managing the LibreOffice release process, handling app store updates with all the paperwork that entails, managing the technical side of language translations not only for LibreOffice, but for any translatable system we have and making sure our integration with payment platforms works smoothly. He has also been involved in creating and maintaining websites and web services. Christian’s work is influencing the developer experience as well. In the past, LibreOffice’s Windows development setup was somewhat messy. After Christian introduced automation into the setup process with the help of WinGet scripts, there has been much less need for troubleshooting. 2. Dan Williams, Developer Dan was involved in the Mac port back in the 2000s when LibreOffice was still called OpenOffice.org. For some months now he has been working for TDF on user interface and macOS

ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format

Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent. However, this does not necessarily mean that the ODF standard is used in accordance with these decisions, which are often laws in their own right, as Microsoft’s substantial lobbying and misinformation campaigns aimed at protecting its revenue of around $25 billion generated by the proprietary OOXML format (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX) encourage the use of the latter. This is despite the fact that the disadvantages for national systems, communities of citizens and individuals are very easy to demonstrate: loss of control over content, interoperability problems and dependence on the commercial strategies of a single vendor. The information in this post is based on my research into sources relating to the adoption or recommendations for the use of ODF. I began compiling this collection of documents around 2010 and continue to update it annually. Over the last twelve months, I have also used artificial intelligence in my research, which has helped me find some articles. Unfortunately, formal adoption or recommendation of ODF does not guarantee its actual use in accordance with the law.

Insights from the Prague InstallFest 2025 Conference

Petr Valach from the Czech LibreOffice community tells us about feedback from the LibreOffice booth at this event… InstallFest is a well­‑established yet relatively small open­‑source conference held annually in the Czech Republic, traditionally at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering building at Karlovo náměstí in Prague. Personally, I prefer these more intimate spaces over the larger venues like the Faculty of Information Technology, where the LinuxDays conference takes place. I highly appreciate the somewhat old­‑fashioned and historical atmosphere that fills every corner of the faculty building. It reminds me of English universities and other institutions like museums, where the ambiance of past eras is still preserved. Some may find it irritating, but to me, such a place has far more character than modern buildings devoid of history. Building E of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), or perhaps the shared building of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI) on Trojanova Street, which I used to visit as a student – and even more so the main building of FJFI on Břehová Street, or the joint workplace of FJFI and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (MFF) of Charles University on Karlova Street – all of these buildings

LibreOffice Base Videos

How to Create a Database Using LibreOffice Base Type Video Recording Director Sean Johnson Abstract Libre office base (similar to Open Office) is a free database for mac OS X, linux and pc. Date 2017 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1yEicq_bM&list=PLQORZjfSPqSkhPbBrwfLOkd_BthVsRqpM&index=4 Running Time 6:19 How to Create a LibreOffice Base Form with Sub Form Type Video Recording Director Sean Johnson Abstract How to build a form and subform in LibreOffice base without needing any code. Date 2020 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4rAHshAEj8&list=PLQORZjfSPqSkhPbBrwfLOkd_BthVsRqpM&index=8 Running Time 18:36 How to Create a LibreOffice Base Split Database Type Video Recording Director Sean Johnson Abstract In this tutorial, I show you how to set up a split database version of the LibreOffice base database. Date 2017 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQtKXPvckOg&list=PLQORZjfSPqSkhPbBrwfLOkd_BthVsRqpM&index=5 Running Time 7:35 How to Export Data from a LibreOffice Base Database Table Type Video Recording Director Sean Johnson Abstract How to export data from a LibreOffice (libre office) or open office base database table using sql and text tables to create a csv file on the Apple Mac file system, the process is similar for windows. Date 2016 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSqm519j-_0&list=PLQORZjfSPqSkFSFHR32WlfXhen0C2HyAi&index=5 Running Time 6:53 How to Install Libreoffice Base on Windows 10 Type Video Recording Director

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

Behind the scenes at TDF: Quality Assurance (QA)

Towards the end of the year, The Document Foundation would like to share achievements in 2014 with our community and our generous donours, to whom we’d like to express our sincerest gratitude and thanks for their incredible and wonderful support and their invaluable contributions! As a start, Robinson Tryon, who is in charge of Quality Assurance (QA) since August, and summarizes the efforts in this important area: Hi all, I’m Robinson Tryon and I’m a QA Engineer for The Document Foundation. I became quite interested in computers in high school and got my first taste of Free Software playing around with RedHat Linux on a spare machine. In college I started to study computer science in earnest, and found myself very interested in the topics of human-computer interaction and computing freedom. I can’t remember who first introduced me to the Free Software Foundation, but I have fond memories from my undergraduate years of attending annual membership meetings at MIT and thinking of how I’d like to get a job where I could spend my time working on Free Software. In the years since I graduated with a degree in computer science, I’ve been fortunate to be able to work with