Today we’re talking to Jean-Francois Nifenecker, who’s working on LibreOffice extensions and macros, and more… Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m 68 years old, freshly retired from a job as a French civil servant (local IT department).
Last week we started the Month of LibreOffice, rewarding contributors in our projects and communities! So, how are we looking after the first seven days? Well, 146 people have already taken part and can claim their sticker packs at the end of the mon…
The community documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.6 and Draw Guide 7.6. The guides are updated to the latest LibreOffice release as a community effort to keep our literature sharp and up to date.
Features/Changes
#2190: Rewrite with Floem UI
#2425: Reimplement completion lens
#2498: Show Lapce as an option when doing "Open With..." on Linux
#2549: Implement multi-line vim-motion yank and d...
Expand your skillset and gain valuable experience with UX, marketing, documentation, QA and translations – join the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve LibreOf…
LibreOffice events in Nepal, Indonesia, Czechia, India, Mexico and more... Plus SVG improvements in the software! Find out more in our quick recap of October: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #events
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started by announcing the LibreOffice Nepali localization sprint 2023, which began on 11 October.
This week, we are kicking off a continuing “QA Weekly Focus” to attract attention to certain topics and areas. For this first week, let’s look into issues related to our SVG support.
The Latin American LibreOffice Community proudly invites you to join our 2023 Latin American LibreOffice Conference – LATAM 2023. Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video.
Rania Amina writes: The LibreOffice Conf. Asia 2023 took place on 7 – 8 October 2023 in Surakarta, Indonesia. This event was held simultaneously and collaboratively with UbuCon Asia 2023 at the same place, with the official name “LibreOffice Conf.
We’re excited to welcome Holly Million as Executive Director of the #GNOME Foundation! 🎉
Holly comes to us with valuable experience in nonprofit management and has served as executive director and board member for numerous organizations. foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/1…
Free Software – like #LibreOffice – isn't about zero-cost (as nice as that is). The focus is on freedom to use your computer as you wish, and take back control of your data. We were recently at Software Freedom Day in Delhi, for instance: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
On September 30 in Delhi, the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) organised an event to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Ravi Dwivedi was there with a stand and merchandise, to raise awareness about LibreOffice. Here are some photos from the event:
Suraj Bhattarai, our Liaison for the LibreOffice Nepali Community, writes: The LibreOffice Nepali Community is collectively carrying out a LibreOffice localization sprint 2023, with support from major communities in Nepal, including Ask Buddie, Biren…
LibreOffice 7.6 will be released as final in mid-August 2023 (check the Release Plan), with LibreOffice 7.6 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 7.6 started in mid December, 2022.
Say hello to the team at The Document Foundation! They coordinate the @libreoffice project – but of course, hundreds of people in the community help to improve the software, every day 😊 blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
Tried #LibreOffice's dark mode yet? Our Design community added lots of improvements to it in LibreOffice 7.6 – so check it out (Tools > Options > View)... #foss #opensource
Love #LibreOffice? Come and meet the community that makes it! Our conference in September will have talks, workshops, fun social meetups and much more: conference.libreoffice.org/202… – We look forward to meeting you there 😊 #event #meetings #foss
The combination of rapidly-improving technologies like GNOME, Flatpak, Wayland, and Portals also means our active privacy protections are also better than ever before.
I went on to write:
>If and when we are able to develop an open, peer reviewed, industry-respected method of responsible and privacy-first telemetry, we may consider doing so.
While that post was in the context of elementary OS, I believe every word I wrote.
I’ve spent a long, long time thinking about ethical software, the challenges we *necessarily* give ourselves compared to closed competitors, and crucially, how to overcome those challenges.
Four and a half years ago, I wrote:
>respecting your privacy is the ethical thing to do; users have a fundamental right to the utmost privacy, even from companies and products they trust.
I hope this can serve as the beginning of the ecosystem coming together to solve this unique challenge in a way that is objectively superior than any proprietary system—all with privacy as the fundamental principle.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started June by announcing the LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023, in Indonesia, an event that brings tog…
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New features are coming in #LibreOffice 7.6, in August, thanks to our community! Highlighting for styles, better tables of contents, improved keyboard navigation, compact layout for pivot tables, and much more: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re… #foss #opensource #news
Libervia: the Universal Communication EcosystemAre you looking for a communication solution that prioritizes privacy, security, and ethics? Introducing Liber...
LibreOffice's marketing community spreads the word about the software – and encourages users to join our projects too! Here's what they did in 2022: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
In 2022, the marketing team continued the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, without overlooking ongoing activities to promote LibreOffice and support the efforts of native language communities (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annu…
