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!
Thunderbird for Android gets one step closer, as K-9 Mail integrates Thunderbird's Autoconfiguration feature for new accounts.
Read info on that, all the other important developments, and some awesome community contributions in the new progress report: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/06/t…
Some neat improvements feature in the latest update to ONLYOFFICE, an open-source productivity suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As always I’m not shouting the name to annoy you, it’...
🗨️ Ce vendredi à 17h30, j'aurai le plaisir de présenter #Libervia à Pas Sage en Seine (#PSES). Libervia va au-delà d'un simple client #XMPP : c'est un écosystème de communication universel, riche en fonctionnalités, respectueux de la vie privée et basé sur un système décentralisé. Parfaitement adapté aux groupes privés, aux messageries internes ou comme réseau social libre. programme.passageenseine.fr/ #logiciellibre #opensource #vieprivée #décentralisation #PSES #Paris
Every number about podcasting is now freely available! PodcastData has just updated with @PodcastindexOrg data, now counting 4 082 758 podcasts and 95 376 535 episodes. For every month. Since the year 2000! 📈 #opendata #opensource #rawgraphs 👉️podcastdata.org/
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.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is looking for developers who use open source and want to contribute back to it. ... In three challenges, participants can work on contributing back to open source for up to eight months with a budget of up to €300,000 per round. sovereigntechfund.de/en/challe… #technology #opensource
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.
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…
The USPTO has issued proposed rules that will make it harder for everyone in #opensource to challenge bad #patents. Let them know you want a fair and open system for all, where anyone can seek a review of an invalid patent.
This is a campaign supported by @eff, @EclipseFdn, @mozilla, Open Invention Networks (OIN), @osi, Unified Patents, and likely more as we progress.
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…
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
The application for our Executive Director role closes today. If you or someone you know would be a good fit for this position, make sure to submit your application now! foundation.gnome.org/careers/
The deadline to apply for our Executive Director role is only open for one more day. If you or anyone you know is a good fit, make sure to submit your application by June 2! foundation.gnome.org/careers/
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
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite.
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2023. Ahmed Gamal Eltokhy – Improve PGP/GPG encryption support: the project aims to enhance the experimental PGP/GPG encryption support in LibreOffice by addressing several shortco…
Be part of Linux App Summit 2024! We are already looking for the location of our next event. What about near you? Send in your proposal and let's get things rolling! linuxappsummit.org/cfl/
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
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.
Ever heard the term "scratching your own itch"? It means: doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem. Rafael Lima came across a limitation in #LibreOffice, and helped our community to fix it! Learn more : blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #opensource #qa
Xisco Fauli from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) writes: On May 12 and 13, the esLibre Conference took place in Zaragoza, Spain and the LibreOffice spanish community took the oportunity to meet in person and talk ab…
This year our annual conference, GUADEC, takes place in Riga, Latvia on July 26-31. Throughout the six days of presentations, BoFs, workshops, and social events we’ll need volunteers to help the conference run smoothly! The volunteer’s responsibilit…
LibreOffice 7.6 will be released as final in mid August, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.6 started in mid December, 2022.
So far, 202 sticker packs have been awarded in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023. But we’re only half of the way through – so if your name (or username) isn’t on the list, join in, help to make LibreOffice even better, and get some cool swag! We’ll …
We're getting closer to Thunderbird for Android! One of our next steps for K-9 Mail is to incorporate Thunderbird’s Autoconfig mechanism. This will dramatically improve the new account setup experience.
Want to expand your skillset and gain experience with UX, marketing, documentation, QA or translations? Join the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve LibreOffice – a…
