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Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month! At the start of December, we wrapped up the Month of LibreOffice from November – and 345 sticker packs had been awarded, more than any other Month of LibreOffice in history! This reflects the thriving community around the software – learn more about the results here. At our recent conference in Tirana, Albania, we sat down with Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community to talk about FOSS migrations in his home country and why he joined the membership committee. We finished editing the video in early December, so here it is! 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 Meanwhile, the Taiwanese community held a Bug Hunting Session and Franklin Weng reported back about it. A big thanks to everyone who took part, and helped to make the next release of LibreOffice super reliable! LibreOffice’s source code is predominantly C++, so some members of the project decided to

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month! At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the community! Everyone who took part in the LibreOffice project during November can claim a cool sticker pack – see here for the details. If you didn’t get a sticker, don’t worry – we plan to have another Month of LibreOffice is May next year! There were two update releases of LibreOffice: 6.0.7 and 6.1.3. The former is recommended for organisations, together with professional support from our ecosystem of certified developers, while the later is suitable for home users. Full details here. As we head towards LibreOffice 6.2, which is due to be released in late January (or early February), our worldwide community is organising events to test the software. Check out the LibreOffice 6.2 Bug Hunting Session in Ankara, Turkey, where participants tested the alpha version on Linux, Windows and macOS. At other events, LinuxDays and OpenAlt in the Czech Republic, Stanislav Horáček and Zdeněk Crhonek (aka raal) helped to spread the word about LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. They answered questions from visitors, handed out merchandise, and had discussions with

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month! The Albanian LibreOffice Community made an awesome recap video of our recent conference in Tirana. Check it out: 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 Also, we’ve been uploading presentation videos from the conference. Apologies for the echo in the audio, but it’s the best we could do given technical limitations of the venue – try using headphones and it should be a bit clearer. There are many more videos to come! As a large open source project serving millions of end users, LibreOffice has extensive infrastructure. We talked to Guilhem Moulin, who is in charge of The Document Foundation’s infrastructure and services, about new developments and how others can get involved. Meanwhile, the QA community organised the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2, which is currently in development and due to be released in early February next year. There will be more sessions in the coming

There’s a lot going on in the LibreOffice community, in the lead up to LibreOffice 6.1, in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. Here’s a summary of news and updates in July… Preparations for LibreOffice 6.1 continued, with the final Bug Hunting Session on July 6. Users around the world helped to test new features and report bugs so that they can be fixed before the final release – thanks to everyone who took part! The Taiwanese LibreOffice community created an awesome promotional video for LibreOffice Viewer. Check it out below – and download the app from the Play Store or F-Droid. If you have some Android coding experience, build the latest version and help us to improve it! 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 Another Bug Hunting Session took place in July, this time with the Turkish LibreOffice community. 15 people were present, and tested the software for three hours. See the full report here. TDF

There’s a lot going on in the LibreOffice community, in the lead up to LibreOffice 6.1, in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. Here’s a summary of news and updates in June… LibreOffice 6.0.5 was announced, and includes almost 100 bug and regression fixes. See the announcement for the full details. We started posting out stickers to contributors from the Month of LibreOffice, May 2018 – a big thanks to everyone who took part! We hope you enjoy receiving these in the post… The Document Foundation announced the results of the image handling rework tender. Collabora was selected to do the work, and we posted a technical summary of the results. The LibreOffice Conference 2018 is coming up on September, and the call for papers is still open until July 15. If you’re attending the conference (and you totally should!), you can submit a presentation idea here. We talked to Andreas Kanz from the LibreOffice design community. He described the new table styles, icon themes and Notebookbar improvements he has been working on – take a look and see how you can help too! And, of course, there was progress towards LibreOffice 6.1. A second beta release was

Lots of things are happening in the LibreOffice community – in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. Here’s a summary of news and updates in May… The Nepalese LibreOffice community reported back on their localisation sprint. Thousands of text strings were translated, LibreOffice Online was completely localised, and the number of active contributors increased from 2 to 35. Thanks to Saroj Dhakal for feedback and photos. Last year The Document Foundation published a Tender to Implement Accessibility Improvements regarding user interface widgets that are added to the suite but which have accessibility shortcomings. On May 7, we announced the results of the tender: Hypra has created gla11y, the user interface accessibility checker. TDF announced LibreOffice 6.0.4, which includes almost 90 bug and regression fixes. In addition, LibreOffice 5.4.7 was released – the last version from the 5.4 branch. Ilmari Lauhakangas set up a LibreOffice page on VolunteerMatch, with the goal of bringing in new contributors in the fields of user interface design, programming, marketing, documentation and more. If you like LibreOffice and want to help improve it in these areas, take a look! Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community reported back from the Free Software and Linux