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There’s one more week to go in the Month of LibreOffice for May 2017 – so you still have a chance to get a snazzy printed sticker for your laptop or desktop PC! Here’s how many stickers have been awarded so far: 252 Click the number to see how the contributions are spread across projects in the community. Want to get a sticker yourself? Read on! Just by helping other users on Ask LibreOffice, or confirming a bug report, you can make LibreOffice better and get one of these… How to get a sticker There are many ways you can help the LibreOffice project and claim a sticker: Answer questions from users: Over on Ask LibreOffice there are many users looking for help with the suite. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim a shiny sticker. Help to confirm bugs: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 5.3.2”. (Make sure you’re using the latest version of LibreOffice.) Translate the interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface

We’re 17 days into the Month of LibreOffice, May 2017 – and we’ve just gone over the 200 stickers mark. Yes, that’s 200 community members who’ve helped out with code, QA, translations, documentation, user support and marketing – and each one will receive a cool sticker for their laptops and other kit. Thanks everyone for your help! Also, the printed stickers arrived at The Document Foundation today: There are still two more weeks of the Month of LibreOffice to go – so don’t miss out on a sticker! Read on to find out how you can help the project (and millions of LibreOffice users around the world), and claim a sticker for yourself: How to get a sticker There are many ways you can help the LibreOffice project and claim a sticker: Help to confirm bugs: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 5.3.2”. (Make sure you’re using the latest version of LibreOffice.) Contribute code: The codebase is big, but there are lots of places to get involved with small jobs. See our Developers page on the website and this page on

On May 1st we started a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, to give credit to contributions all across the project. So, after the first week, how is it looking? Well, here’s how many stickers have been awarded so far… 121 That’s a great start – 121 members of the LibreOffice community who’ll get a shiny sticker at the end of the month. Click the number to see how the contributions are spread across code, QA, documentation, user support and other areas. Of course, there’s more to come, and if you want to get a sticker for your laptop or other device, read on! Every contribution to LibreOffice can help millions of users across the globe. How to get a sticker There are many ways you can help the LibreOffice project and claim a sticker: Help to confirm bugs: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 5.3.2”. (Make sure you’re using the latest version of LibreOffice.) Contribute code: The codebase is big, but there are lots of places to get involved with small jobs. See our Developers page on the website and this

Yes, a new Month of LibreOffice begins today, crediting contributions all across the project. This time we’re giving away real printed stickers for your laptop, desktop PC or other kit! If you help the LibreOffice community in various ways, we’ll add your name to a wiki page and then, at the end of the month, you’ll be able to claim your sticker. It’ll look like this: How to get a sticker There are many ways you can help the LibreOffice project and claim a sticker: Help to confirm bugs: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 5.3.2”. (Make sure you’re using the latest version of LibreOffice.) Contribute code: The codebase is big, but there are lots of places to get involved with small jobs. See our Developers page on the website and this page on the wiki to get started. Once you’ve submitted a patch, if it gets merged we’ll send you a sticker! Translate the interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the

We’re now into the final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016! So far, 210 badges have been awarded – so 210 members of the LibreOffice community have contributed in the last 23 days. Fantastic work, everyone! If your name isn’t there, you still have a chance to earn a shiny badge to put on your blog or social media – and tell the world about open source and digital freedom. Here are some quick ways to get a badge: Answer questions from users on Ask LibreOffice Tell the world about your LibreOffice experiences with the #libreoffice hashtag Confirm new bug reports, and say if they apply to your setup too Or if you have some extra time to spare and want to get more involved: Start contributing code to LibreOffice Translate the user interface Help out with documentation So pick a task and grab a badge while you can!

Back in May we had a Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions to the software across the entire project. It was fantastic, with hundreds of badges and barnstars awarded to developers, translators, bug reporters, and also to people who help with documentation, the Ask.LibreOffice site and social media. Well, it’s time to do it again! Read on and learn how to award barnstars and collect badges… Barnstars If you’re involved in the LibreOffice community and want to show your appreciation for someone’s efforts, award them a barnstar on our special wiki page. This is a bronze, silver or gold icon that shows your thanks for that person’s help or contribution, like so: To award a barnstar, just email barnstars@libreoffice.org, say who should get it and what they did. We’ll then add it to the page. Badges Meanwhile, LibreOffice contributors can earn badges throughout the month. They look like this: We’ll add every contributor to the list of badges on our wiki. Everyone who earns a badge can proudly show it off on their blog or social media accounts! At the end of the campaign we’ll make a high-score list for the contributors who earned the most badges. How do I get