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Announcing Open Badges for LibreOffice contributors!

LibreOffice is made by volunteers and certified developers across the globe, and today we’re announcing a new system to credit their work and show appreciation: Open Badges. So what are they? In a nutshell, Open Badges are PNG images that are awarded to contributors for reaching a certain threshold – such as a number of commits to the codebase, or answering questions on Ask LibreOffice. But these images are something special: they contain metadata describing the contributor’s work, which can be verified using an external service. Open Badges are used by other free software projects, such as Fedora. We at The Document Foundation – the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice – will start issuing customised badges to contributors, who can then proudly display them on websites or social media. And because of the embedded metadata, contributors can use the badges as proof of their work. If you’ve been a long-time contributor to LibreOffice and are in the job market, use your badge to highlight your involvement in a large open source project! Starting off: Ask LibreOffice contributors The first set of badges go to the nine people on Ask LibreOffice, our community assistance website, who’ve posted over 100 answers. We’ll be

Annual Report 2021: Attracting new contributors to LibreOffice

Bringing new community members on board, and helping them to get started in the LibreOffice community, is an essential part of our work. Here’s what we did in 2021… (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) Onboarding tools and sites Joining a large and established project like LibreOffice can be daunting for many. The software has a large codebase, and sub-projects use a wide array of tools. In recent years, we’ve made efforts to simplify the onboarding process by linking more services together with SSO (single sign-on), thereby reducing some of the complexity. In addition, we’ve created Easy Hacks and similar “bite size” projects in other areas, so that newcomers can get involved quickly and achieve something without months of work. Currently, we have two websites/pages that function as starting points for new contributors: What Can I Do For LibreOffice and the Get Involved page. The former was set up by LibreOffice’s Albanian community, and lets users click through topics of interest, until they find something they want to do. The latter is a regular page, with a list of sub-projects inside LibreOffice, and quick steps to make

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more! The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 7.2, which includes many new features, updates and fixes. Our Indonesian community created a video showcasing the changes (PeerTube version here). We’re looking forward to the LibreOffice Conference 2021, coming up in September – and we now have a logo, thanks to Alan Ward! Also in August, The Document Foundation announced two tenders to work on LibreOffice’s source code base: implement an autoupdater, and implement support for editing and creation of a Dynamic Diagram feature. Deadlines for applications are September 20. Our series of guides to fixing interoperability bugs in LibreOffice continued this month with part 2 and part 3. Meanwhile, we issued special Open Badges to members of the Czech documentation community. Great work, everyone! In the LibreOffice project, we make use of various social media platforms to spread the word, and bring new contributors to us. We posted about the importance of LinkedIn pages for our projects, and how we’re growing them. French social-impact company Hypra, focused on accessibility in free and open source

LibreOffice project recap: July 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started July by welcoming allotropia to The Document Foundation’s Advisory Board. Founded in late 2020 with five long-time LibreOffice developers, allotropia’s stated mission is to bring LibreOffice to shine – in as many different shapes and forms as necessary, to serve the modern needs of office productivity software. allotropia was spun off from CIB, another long-time provider of LibreOffice-based products and services (and also a member of the Advisory Board). On the very same day, our documentation team announced the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.1. Covering all LibreOffice modules, from the Calc spreadsheet to the Base database and including chapters on the suite settings as well as macro coding, the Getting Started Guide 7.1 is a valuable companion for organizations that want to deploy documentation on LibreOffice together with the software suite on their offices and also at user’s homes. Meanwhile, we chatted with Tim Brennan Jr. from the Brazilian LibreOffice community. He’s on the Brazilian Portuguese translation and editing team, and recently decided to become a Member of The Document Foundation. Welcome, Tim! Then the Spanish-speaking community held an online meeting with video talks streamed

LibreOffice monthly recap: April 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started off by releasing LibreOffice 7.1.2, an update with over 60 bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility. Meanwhile, the Council of the German city of Dortmund announced that it’s moving to free and open source software, where possible. This is great news: in the future, the city administration will have to justify why open source software cannot be used for every proprietary software application. There were several documentation updates in April, thanks to our busy community: the Brazilian Community launched the LibreOffice 7.0 Getting Started Guide in Portuguese, while the Writer Guide 7.1 also arrived. Great work, everyone! Gökçe Kuler from the Turkish LibreOffice community is helping to fix bugs in the software. She told us about her experiences joining the project, and her tips for others who want to get involved. In the middle of the month, we announced the dates for the (online) LibreOffice Conference 2021. It will be a fully virtual event for the second consecutive year, from September 23 (Thursday) to September 25 (Saturday). We also announced the Call for Papers – join in and submit a talk! Next up: the

New Generation: Flyer for schools and universities

In late January, we announced LibreOffice New Generation, which focuses on bringing younger contributors into our projects and communities. We’ve had many discussions in our Telegram group since then, and today we’re announcing our first finished project: a LibreOffice flyer for schools and universities: The goal of this flyer is to not only make students aware of LibreOffice, but also encourage them to get involved and help to improve it. Joining a free and open source software project is a great way to build up skills and gain experience, for potential future career options. Thanks to Fabio Pesari, Timothy Brennan Jr. and Maharaj for their help and suggestions! So what’s next? We’ve put the flyer source file on our wiki (in ODG format, for opening in LibreOffice Draw – font used is Vegur), so translations in more languages would be great! If you make a translation, please email it to us and we’ll add it to the wiki. Here are the translations we have so far: Spanish (Daniel Armando Rodriguez and Ever Medina) Turkish (Yusuf Sansarkan) Norwegian – nynorsk (Kolbjørn Stuestøl) Norwegian – bokmål (Kolbjørn Stuestøl) Italian (Italian-speaking community) Slovene (Miha Kočar and Martin Srebotnjak) Dutch (Kees) German “Du” and

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