Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
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.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Help wanted, please!
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.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Are you working on Free & Open Source technologies that benefit other people too? Consider to apply for funding in our open calls.
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.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.
After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today her PR was merged 🚀
github.com/fontforge/fontforge…
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...GitHub
Itching to try GNOME 49 today? Developers and curious testers can try GNOME OS in a virtual machine or bare metal:
Just remember that GNOME OS itself is considered pre-release software; bad things may happen if you use it in production. Happy testing!
#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux
Thank you to everyone who helped make GNOME 49 a reality—especially every Friend of GNOME whose financial support sustains the GNOME Foundation!
If you'd like to join us on the road to GNOME 50, consider donating to become a Friend of GNOME today. With your help, we can continue to build a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem to realize a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust.
#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux
GNOME 49 has been officially released! Head over to the release notes to discover all the new features and enhancements:
Many thanks to our community for your work over the past 6 months. You're amazing!
#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.GNOME Release Notes
At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!
flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.…
#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS
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 …TheEvilSkeleton
Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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.
All that and more at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
And don't forget to subscribe to receive future posts by email: nvaccess.org/newsletter
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Blog #Newsletter #NewVersion #Chrome #Chromium #WBU #WBU25 #SomethingDigital #Tips #FOSS
Welches lokal und datenschutzfreundlich nutzbare #LLM möchte man denn installieren, um das #Foto #Archiv mit #Bildbeschreibungen zu versehen.
Daraus möchte ich eine eigene #Datenbank bauen.
Und nein, ich möchte keine Fotoverwaltungssoftware installieren.
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,…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2025.3!
This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.
For full details and to download, please visit: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #FOSS #OpenSource #New #News #Software #Blind
💡 Governments play a crucial role to support the #DigitalCommons.
@ChristopherWilson (from @MyDataglobal) highlights their vital role and emphasises that the design challenge is also a key consideration.
Let’s build systems that serve people, not platforms.
commons.ngi.eu/videos/
#FOSS #PublicTech #Interoperability #Data #DigitalCommons
@martelinnovate @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @cnrs @linuxfoundation @ngi
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!
Overall, abysmal.
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.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Libervia CLI tip 6:
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.
Use `--help` to see available outputs
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:
lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/…
What do you think? Worth while approach for a #foss project?
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Open Source JobHub
Hi everyone,
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.
Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility
The #Google playstore bias against #FOSS apps should end, @daniel. I'm so sorry you face this.
Never would software freedom activists like myself, in 2005, imagined that 20 years later the most common computers that most users have would forbid users from installing FOSS, *AND* impede small FOSS businesses from operating boutique shops that provide useful FOSS apps to their users.
The computing world quickly slouches toward dystopia.
CoMaps is now on IzzyOnDroid!
IzzyOnDroid is an Android store for Free & Open Source Software. The apps are free (as in „free beer“ and as in „free speech“) and Open Source.
Builds for IzzyOnDroid are directly from developers and signed by developers. This enables very fast publishing (whereas F-Droid re-builds apps from source).
There are several ways to install and update CoMaps via IzzyOnDroid:
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…
#IzzyOnDroid #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSSCommunity #LibreApps
Easy map navigation - Discover more of your journey - Powered by the communityIzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
Poll: How many screens do you work with? 🖥️
Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️
(Feel free to reply with how this setup helps you 👇)
#Linux #Arch #LinuxMint #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology #Apple #OS #iOS #MacOS #OperatingSystem #Monitor #Monitors #Screen #Screens #TV #OLED #2k #4k #HD #Job #Work #Productivity #Multitasking #Dev #DevOps #Development #Developers #DevLife #SysAdmin #TechCommunity
