I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green
customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else
this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies
Berlin, 9 October 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.
LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they sho…
We’re launching our second donation campaign to raise 💲1 million to: - Fund new features, like robust group calls on all platforms, a web version, advanced diagnostics, and better mobile performance - Secure Jami’s long‑term independence and maintenance 🛠️.
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LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary.
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Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
If you have *first hand experience* of improving the diversity of a governance board of (currently all men) volunteers, I'd love to hear how you went about it, or resources which helped you, please.
What did you find helped make the role more attractive to a wider range of applicants to join?
(This is in the context of a Free software project, but broader contexts are welcome.)
Updates from the Nepalese LibreOffice community: Recent protests and stress in Nepal have disrupted regular activities. Almost everything was affected, including in-person events being canceled rapidly.
Are you working on Free & Open Source technologies that benefit other people too? Consider to apply for funding in our open calls.
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There is little administrative overhead: no reporting-the project is the proof of work. And the application form is simple & straightforward. The next deadline for the rolling open call is October 1 nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250801-ca… #FOSS #NGI #NGI0 #fossfunding
The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference.
Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely.
If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...
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There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
This week's bumper In-Process is out! Featuring: - NVDA 2025.3 Released - Using Chromium with the mouse issue - We've been to WBU AND Something Digital - and using Single Letter Navigation with web apps.
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.0 and LibreOffice 25.8.1 were announced on August 20 and August 29 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for the option to load printer settings with document, sorting blocks of cells in Calc, hyphenation,…
What did we do in 2024, to support the @libreoffice and Document Liberation projects? We've been posting on our blog, and now the final version of our Annual Report is available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.
Fingerprint reader functionality under #Linux sucks.
1. Every few reboots/updates/whatever-triggers it, the fingerprint functionality GETS DISABLED all by itself. The bug is there in BOTH Ubuntu and Arch Linux ( #gnome ).
2. GDM won't let me choose between pass & fingerprint reading. This has repercussions for gnome's keyring.
3. Because the keyring is not unlocked, launching things like Chrome requires you to type a password! Again!
LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to volunteers around the world! And there are translations in many languages too. The Czech community just finished translating the LibreOffice Calc Guide 25.2: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech translation of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 25.2 is now available, thanks to the endless efforts of our team. It was translated by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and me.
We have some new LibreOffice Expert magazines from @linuxmagazine to give away! We want to get them to schools, libraries and local communities, especially in remote places where internet access isn't easily available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
A few weeks ago, Linux New Media released an updated version of its “LibreOffice Expert” magazine, which contains tutorials, tips and tricks about the office suite.
Most commands have an `-O, --output` option to format the output. By default, the output is pretty formatted for humans, but you can output in JSON, XML, or other formats.
With `template` output you can use Jinja templates, either built-in ones (the ones used in the web frontend), or your own; useful to build static HTML pages/sites, or reformat the data the way you want.
I have been pushing for #Inkscape to remove/decommission it's Twitter account. But I didn't want to do it unilaterally, bossing people about, but through reasoned policy that can be applied to other captured banana-pants social media platforms.
So I've drafted a policy, which I'm interested in having more people look at as it's going to be one of those gnarly things that's important to get right:
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The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.
This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.
