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:
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.
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.
Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.
But wait — it gets better!
Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.
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.
Hello world! 👋 Greetings from the #LibreOffice Conference in Budapest. Of course, this is just one part of the wider LibreOffice community that makes the software – consisting of hundreds of people around the world. Join them! #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
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).
Day 2 of the #LibreOffice Conference 2025 begins! Join us in-person in Budapest – or check the conference website for the schedule and chat (where we'll post live stream links, where possible): conference.libreoffice.org/202… #foss #OpenSource
More and more countries are taking back control of their IT! At the #LibreOffice Conference, we hear how the Austrian Military is switching. Oh, and there's cool conference swag from the organisers too... conference.libreoffice.org/202… #foss #OpenSource
In my quest to replace all my day-to-day apps with #FOSS alternatives, I installed @thunderbird tonight. Pretty impressively efficient startup, it just brought over all the Outlook data (kind of wish it asked before it did) *except* it REFUSES to sync my outlook.com email. Will need to check on that when it's not late o'clock. #opensource
I believe that especially for sensitive areas like #education, #healthcare, or #academia, there is no alternative to fully open #AI models. Everybody should start building upon them and improving them.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreOffice.
Today, we celebrate the close of the June 2025 Outreachy Internship round!
Congratulations to our interns on their amazing contributions and growth.
We sincerely thank and appreciate our mentors + community coordinators for their support and collaboration.
This isn’t the end, it’s the start of many more contributions to the open source ecosystem. Together, we continue to build a more inclusive tech future. 💙
🔐 Tuta Mail introduces key verification to strengthen end-to-end encryption and defend against MITM attacks 👥 Users can now verify contacts’ public keys via QR code or manual comparison. If skipped, Tuta defaults to TOFU (Trust On First Use) for seamless encryption 🧩
Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.
Here is what is missing in the popular #OSM based #FOSS apps (#OsmAnd, @CoMaps & @organicmaps) from being a potential replacement for GMaps.
1. Photos & Reviews are two most important things that are missing right now. @mangroveReviews and @lib_reviews are here to fill the reviews gap. #WikimediaCommons, @panoramax are here to fill the photos gap.
2. Crowdsourced Real time Traffic data. I couldn't find any #opendata platform yet. Though I saw an empty repo created under the CoMaps project. 🤞
The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest.
The UbuCon India UbuCon India is the first-ever UbuCon by the India LoCo dedicated to the Ubuntu ecosystem and the broader Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in India.
Check this out – PyPos3DLO, an app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Today we’re talking to Olivier Dufailly, who’s working on PyPos3DLO, an app based on LibreOffice to create mechanical characters, edit and optimize Poser files, and manipulate WaveFront files: Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Toulouse (France)…
Initial applications are now open for the December 2025 Outreachy internships!
Outreachy provides remote, paid internships in open source & open science, supporting applicants from any background or identity who are impacted by underrepresentation, systemic bias, or discrimination.
This governance work by @pyladies is truly top notch. The evolution of their governance as the project grows and matures is exactly the way a #FOSS community should operate.
