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…
Google wants to track you - no matter what. Now it is threatening to take down Invidious, a popular platform on which you can watch YouTube videos without being tracked!
Documentation is critical for #FOSS projects, helping to ensure long-term viability & sustainability of technologies. Want to improve your project's docs to guide new users and potential contributors? Apply for up to €300k in our #ContributeBackChallenges for strengthening open source infrastructure: sovereigntechfund.de/en/challe…
Let’s strengthen the Open Source ecosystem together!
The Sovereign Tech Fund is looking for developers who use open source and want to contribute back to it.
In this post I start my journey in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with KDE Eco by describing progress made on the exciting project of making remote access to the Energy Measurement Lab a reality.
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.3 was released on May 4 LibreOffice 7.4.7 was released on May 11 Sophia Schröder corrected menu item paths in Help alongside other cleanups Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help Olivier…
We want a fair and open system for all. We support The Linux Foundation's Open Source Software Patent Defense. Join us by submitting your own comment: linuxfoundation.org/blog/stand…
Just watched this documentary about Mick Curran and Jamie Teh the creators of NVDA, which is the free and open source Windows screen reader I use daily. NVDA has been truly life-changing for so many people. I think the documentary was well put together and I've learnt a thing or 2. @NVAccess @jcsteh #NVDA #blind #foss youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sA…
Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...
What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.
Alright, here's a response article to @martijnbraam's "Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak". I'll be addressing some of their claims by explaining why some of the design decisions make sense the way they are.
Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised.
Our community in Asia let us know about an event they’re organising… LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 (hereinafter referred to as LOUCA23) is an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, c…
If you plan to attend the LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, it’s time to: REGISTER: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2023/registration-form/ CHECK IF YOU NEED A VISA: https://igi.mai.gov.
In 2022, 11,769 commits were made to the #LibreOffice source code, from 218 authors, in 10 repositories. We also took part in the Google Summer of Code, to support student developers: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #opensource #foss
(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works)
Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django.
It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you.
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite.
In 2022, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.
@zotero haha my translation made it sound like a new feature, it’s two lines & some refactoring to fix an ancient bug inherited from #openoffice - though imo being able to fix such annoyances (or pay a random non-employee dev to do so on your behalf) is a really cool property of #FOSS projects like #LibreOffice. Beats hopelessly bashing my head against the wall while trying to work around the bugs and limitations of a certain proprietary office suite…
Hoping to make the list with my first patch which I've just confirmed to be fully operational!
Was looking forward to a smoother all-#FOSS paper writing workflow with @zotero and @libreoffice, am now also looking forward to getting some cool stickers 😎
¹ already at F-Droid, but added at authors request to keep up with the apps release pace. Install from F-Droid first, update where it arrives first (reproducible build)
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
Today I am tremendously grateful for the 300K donors who gave a record-breaking amount to the @thunderbird Project in 2022.
And I'm tremendously thankful to be part of such an incredible #OpenSource project. One that is undoubtedly thriving, when only a few years ago its existence was in question.
Here is the 2022 Financial Report for #Thunderbird. I hope it inspires you to consider a financial gift to your own favorite #FOSS project.
Berlin, May 4, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
Watch the talk by @allotropia's Balazs Varga from the #COOLdays 2023 in #Cambridge and hear about 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 with @libreoffice. 📄
This talk was held during the COOL Days 2023 Technical Day, hosted by #Collabora on 28 March 2023 at Clare College, Cambridge. #COOLdays #CollaboraOnline #co...
Many apps are inaccessible for blind/VI people. Developers usually have to implement #Accessibility features from scratch for each platform they develop on, which can scare them away. The good folks over @accesskit are trying to change that with their #Foss project, #AccessKit. Their goal is to create a cross-platform solution for accessibility that only has to be implemented once. I'm posting this to spread the word. Let's help them reach their goals! accesskit.dev/ #Blind #A11Y
Free software is about much more than zero-cost. It's about the freedom to use, study, modify and share software. So we're increasing public policy-related activities in the EU, to raise awareness of this: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #libreoffice #eu
The Document Foundation, thanks to the widespread popularity of LibreOffice, is recognized as one of the largest FOSS organizations worldwide, and especially in Europe (where the project was born over 20 years ago).
