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Thursday
08 May, 2025


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Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they create. It even allows deleting user related info from documents. In addition, it has a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market.

The biggest advantage over competing products is the LibreOffice Technology engine, the single software platform on which desktop, mobile and cloud versions of LibreOffice – including those from ecosystem companies – are based. Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.
End users looking for manuals can download the LibreOffice 24.8 guides from the following link: https://books.libreoffice.org/.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with three or five year backporting of security patches, other dedicated value-added features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice 24.8.7 availability

LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (no longer supported by Microsoft) and Apple MacOS 10.15. Products for Android and iOS are at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.

LibreOffice 24.8 will reach its EOL (End of Life) in mid-June 2025. Users are encouraged to migrate to LibreOffice 25.2, which is now fully tested for all types of use in production. The current version is LibreOffice 25.2.3.

End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: https://ask.libreoffice.org. They can support the project by donating at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.


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Writer has the concept of rejecting tracked changes: if a proposed insertion or deletion is not wanted, then one can reject it to push back on the proposal. So far such an action left no trace in the document, which is sometimes not wanted. Calling reinstate on a change behaves like reject, but with history: it reinstates the original state, with the rejected change preserved in the document.

This work is primarily for Collabora Online, but the feature is available in desktop Writer as well.

Motivation

When Alice works on a document to insert e.g. new conditions for a contract, then perhaps Bob is not happy with the proposal. But just rejecting the change "silently" would not be polite: the tracked change then disappears, so possibly Alice thinks it was accepted and Bob didn't communicate the pushback explicitly in the resulting document, either.

Reinstate is meant to improve this interaction: if an insert is reinstated, then an explicit delete is created on top of the insert, so Alice can see that Bob was not happy with the proposal. Or in case Alice proposed a delete, Bob can reinstate that by adding the same content again to the document, without typing the text manually after the delete.

This is a UI feature: the resulting model still only contains inserts and deletes, so it works even with DOCX files.

Results so far

Given an insert:

Reinstate: an insert

Now you can easily create a delete on top of the insert:

Reinstate: a reinstated insert

And given a delete:

Reinstate: a delete

Now you can easily create an insert right after the delete, preserving complex content:

Reinstate: a reinstated delete

As you can see, this creates the opposite of the original change as a new tracked change, so it will in the end still reject the change, but without deleting the original change.

How is this implemented?

If you would like to know a bit more about how this works, continue reading... :-)

As usual, the high-level problem was addressed by a series of small changes. Core side:

Online side:

Want to start using this?

You can get a development edition of Collabora Online 25


Wednesday
07 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-07 Wednesday

10:50 UTC

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  • Mail chew, signed visa papers for another great COOL Days attendee, just under a month to go: exciting.
  • Sync with Dave & Laser.
  • Published the next strip around resolving apparently irreconcileable differences: "show me the road"
    The Open Road to Freedom - strip#17 - irreconcileable differences: show me the road

Tuesday
06 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-06 Tuesday

21:00 UTC

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  • Up very early, bid 'bye to A & J, breakfast with B. power cut - power restored.
  • Planning call, finished mail, tested some tickets, read some code changes.
  • Out for lunch into town with J. and B.
  • Back for a partner call, sync with Laser, wider partner meeting, admin.
  • Dinner with B, call with A, and E. - all well.

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Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice!

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics, co-organized by FSF.hu Foundation. The event will take place from 4 to 6 September, with an informal community meeting on 3 September. Whether you are an experienced presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to say about LibreOffice, the Document Liberation Project, the Open Document Format or the ODF Toolkit, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be submitted by 15 June 2025 to ensure they are considered for inclusion in the conference programme.

The conference programme will be based on the following tracks

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localisation, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing LibreOffice: Usability, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocacy, promotion and marketing of LibreOffice

Presentations, case studies, workshops and technical talks will cover a topic in depth and last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please submit your proposal – including a short description of contents and a short biography of yourself – to https://events.documentfoundation.org/. If you would like to give more than one talk, please submit a separate proposal for each one. Only software based on the LibreOffice Technology platform will be allowed on stage, while slide decks will be shared using the ISO standard ODP and PDF file formats.

If you need a VISA, please contact the organising team at conference@libreoffice.org as soon as possible to receive an invitation letter.

If you are unable to travel to Hungary and prefer to present remotely, please include a note in your proposal to allow the organisers to schedule your presentation (and organise a test session beforehand).

If you do not agree to make the data for the presentation available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Licence, please specify your terms. In order to make your presentation available on the TDF YouTube channel, please do not make use of copyrighted material (music, images, etc.) for your slide deck.

Of course, this is only the Call for Papers, but everyone is welcome to attend the talks and events! We’ll post again soon when registration is open…

Thank you for your participation!


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FLISOL Brasilia 2025

On April 26, 2025, the Estácio University Center in Brasília – Taguatinga-DF Unit, was the stage for a remarkable moment in the promotion of technological freedom in Brazil. The LibreOffice community actively participated in FLISOL – the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival – with presentations and strong interactions with the public.

More than just an event, FLISOL was a symbol of resistance, collective construction and promotion of the use of open source tools. And LibreOffice, as the largest and most complete open source office suite in the world, was at the center of these discussions.

Lectures empowering digital sovereignty

Activist and member of The Document Foundation, Eliane Domingos, presented the topic “LibreOffice and Digital Independence”, emphasizing the urgent need for independence in the use of software. “To depend on proprietary platforms is to give up control over your own data,” she said. The talk provided an in-depth reflection on technological sovereignty, the risks of digital monopolies and the importance of conscious choices.

Henderson Matsuura presented the new features in LibreOffice 25.2, connecting the suite’s technical advances with the community spirit that sustains its development. With each version, LibreOffice reiterates this commitment to accessibility, quality and freedom – essential characteristics for any society wishing to move towards digital independence.

A collective construction experience

During the event, it was possible to talk to students, educators, enthusiasts and technology professionals about the transformative role of free software in education, public service and everyday life. The genuine interest of the audience shows that there is a growing demand for open, sustainable and transparent solutions.

We would like to express our deepest thanks to Professor Josyane Lannes, Coordinator of the IT courses at the Estácio University Center in Brasília, for hosting FLISOL on her premises and enthusiastically supporting the cause of free software.

Our thanks also go to LibreOffice community member Henderson Matsuura, one of the organizers of FLISOL in Brasilia, who not only gave an excellent talk, but also made room in the program for the promotion of LibreOffice, demonstrating his commitment and dedication to spreading free knowledge.

Beyond software: a global movement

Promoting LibreOffice isn’t just about promoting a computer program. It’s defending people’s rights to access technology without barriers, to maintain control over their own files, and to study, modify and redistribute tools. It’s saying that the digital future needs to be plural, accessible and transparent.

The success of the LibreOffice community’s participation in FLISOL Brasilia 2025 shows that the open source software movement is more alive than ever. And that together we continue strong in our mission to build a more fair and free digital world.


Monday
05 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-05 Monday

21:00 UTC

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  • Mail chew; 1:1 with Miklos, sync with partner, and got double-booked for another partner. Lunch, packed the car & drove to B&AmpA's.
  • Got big screen setup there, call with Pedro - high speed internet everywhere is a wonderful thing. Sync with Eloy.
  • Dinner with B&A&J - watched Darkest Hour: politics.

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LibreOffice Bookshelf

In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

New and translated guides

Throughout the year, the documentation project closed the gap between LibreOffice’s major releases, and the updates of the corresponding user guides. By the end of the year, all of the version 24.2 guides were updated to match the release of LibreOffice 24.8, and ready to continue for the forthcoming release – 25.2 – which arrived in February 2025. The goal of tracking the software releases closely was achieved, and the documentation team is now in a steady state of small updates between releases.

The updates and enhancements of the guides were an effort of all of the team, coordinated by Jean Weber (Writer and Getting Started Guide), Olivier Hallot (Calc Guide), Peter Schofield (Impress and Draw guides). A number of volunteers also worked in each guide by writing and reviewing contents and suggesting improvements. Special thanks to Jean Weber for making the guides available for sale in printed format via Lulu Inc.

LibreOffice 24.8 Getting Started Guide cover

LibreOffice Help updates

The documentation community also had a team of Help page bug fixes, closing Help documentation bugs, bridging gaps, fixing typos and improving quality, a must-have update to keep LibreOffice in-shape for its user base and documented reference of the application features. A total of 614 Help patches were merged in 2024. The Help pages, which are part of the LibreOffice codebase, were also refactored continuously for better maintenance and code readability. The localisation and translation team of volunteers was quick in flagging typos and English mistakes – while translating the Help content and the user interface.

ScriptForge libraries, and Wiki updates

The documentation community also had a nice contribution from Jean Pierre Ledure, Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima, for the development of the ScriptForge macro library, in synchronization with the much-needed Help pages on the subject, a practice rarely followed by junior developers of LibreOffice. As we know, undocumented software is software that’s lacking; features that are unknown to the user can be a cause of costly calls to a help desk in corporate deployments. ScriptForge developments came together with their documentation, demonstrating the ScriptForge team’s professional maturity.

LibreOffice Bookshelf

In 2024, the documentation community also updated the LibreOffice Bookshelf – another download page for LibreOffice guides that is different from the current documentation page. The Bookshelf can be cloned and installed in organizations, libraries, colleges and schools, for immediate availability in controlled environments, as well as online reading of the guides. The Open Document Format chapters were transformed into static HTML pages, and are ready to display on computers, tablets and cell phones, bringing LibreOffice user guides closer to its public, anywhere, at any time.

Like what we do? Support the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation – get involved and help our volunteers, or make a donation. Thank you!


Sunday
04 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-04 Sunday

21:00 UTC

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  • All Saints family service, played violin - on bread. Interested in etymology of Beth-lehem as house-of-bread/food. Home for bready pizza lunch.
  • Relaxed in the afternoon, J. making some nice lino prints, prayed together, watched movies.

Saturday
03 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-03 Saturday

21:00 UTC

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  • Up earlyish. Plugged away at various tasks, into Church to glue together an organ stop. Spent some time further cutting down, and writing a unit test.
  • David over in the afternoon, got mower base-station support painted again made some cable cleats, got some ducting to protect mower power wires installed - much better.
  • Dinner together, and talked until later. Watched The Residence - fun.

Friday
02 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-02 Friday

21:00 UTC

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  • Couple of solar-panel chaps showed up to estimate. Catch-up with Dave, Partner, mail chew & isolated my new pet bug. Wrote a unit test.
  • Interested to see a newish phenomenon of users trying vibe coding in bug reports. Many programming problems should not be too hard for someone reasonable awake with little experience and some AI support to help learn; as long as that doens't consume lots of reviewer time I guess.
  • Sealed some gaps under skirting boards with DraughtEx - fun to get it wedged under things.

Thursday
01 May, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-05-01 Thursday

21:00 UTC

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  • Tech planning call, plugged away at admin and testing 25.04. Spent some time reproducing and interesting problem and cutting a document down that shows that.
  • 1:1 with Lily, then Naomi. More bug chasing.
  • Home group in the evening.

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Month of LibreOffice banner

Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them. There are many ways to get involved, as you’ll see in a second.

And best of all: everyone who contributes to LibreOffice in May can claim a cool sticker pack, and has the chance to win extra LibreOffice merchandise such as mugs, hoodies, T-shirts, rucksacks and more (we’ll choose 10 participants at random at the end):

How to take part

There are many ways you can help out – and you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a…

  • Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers. We also monitor the users@ mailing list too.
  • First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: Go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 11 and LibreOffice 25.2.3”.
  • Drum Beater, spreading the word: Tell everyone about LibreOffice on Mastodon, Bluesky or X (Twitter)! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.
  • Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.
  • Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

We’ll be updating this page every few days with usernames across our various services, as people contribute. So dive in, get involved and help make LibreOffice better for millions of people around the world – and enjoy your sticker pack at the end as thanks from us! And who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to win bonus merch as well…

So let’s get going! We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog and our Mastodon, Bluesky and X (Twitter) accounts over the next four weeks – stay tuned…


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A Milestone for Open Document Formats and Digital Sovereignty

Berlin, 1 May 2025 – Today, The Document Foundation joins the open source software and open standards community in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the Open Document Format (ODF) as an OASIS standard. Two decades after its approval in 2005, ODF is the only open standard for office documents, promoting digital independence, interoperability and content transparency worldwide.

Originally created as an XML-based format to enable universal access to documents across platforms and software from multiple vendors, ODF has become a technology policy pillar for governments, educational institutions and organisations that choose open, vendor-independent formats to assert their digital sovereignty.

“ODF is much more than a technical specification: it is a symbol of freedom of choice, support for interoperability and protection of users from the commercial strategies of Big Tech,” said Eliane Domingos, Chairwoman of the Document Foundation. “In a world increasingly dominated by proprietary ecosystems, ODF guarantees users complete control over their content, free from restrictions.”

ODF is the native file format of LibreOffice, the most widely used and well-known open source office suite, and is supported by a wide range of other applications. Its relevance – twenty years after its creation – is a testament to the foresight of its creators and the open source community’s commitment to openness and collaboration.

ODF has been adopted as an official standard by ISO (as ISO/IEC 26300) and by many governments on all continents to support digital sovereignty strategies and public procurement policies to ensure persistent and transparent access to content.

To celebrate this milestone, from today The Document Foundation will be publishing a series of presentations and documents on its blog that illustrate the unique features of ODF, tracing its history from the development and standardisation process through the activities of the Technical Committee for the submission of version 1.3 to ISO and the standardisation of version 1.4.

In addition, representatives from the Document Foundation will participate in open source community events to talk about the Open Document Format and highlight its importance to the FOSS ecosystem. The LibreOffice conference will have an entire track dedicated to ODF, coordinated by the OASIS Technical Committee.


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Un hito para los formatos de documento abiertos y la soberanía digital.

Berlín, 1 de mayo de 2025 – The Document Foundation se une hoy a la comunidad del software de código abierto y los estándares abiertos para celebrar


Wednesday
30 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-30 Wednesday

21:00 UTC

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  • Pleased to see 25.04 looking good, my blockers fixed at least. Fixed slide threading issue.
  • Sync with Dave, and published the next TORF strip: "My friends see me as something of a visionary"
    The Open Road to Freedom - strip#16 - my friends see me as something of a visionary
  • Glad to see CODE 25.04 released - a great foundation for our next year of development. Based of course on the latest stable LibreOffice 25.02. Lots of encouraging new fixes, features and interactivity wins there: great work team & community - many thanks to all who have contributed.
  • Catch up with Tracie & a partner, then Philippe 1:1.
  • Band practice in the evening.

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This FirebirdSQL pull request introduces support for Windows ARM64 builds to the Firebird project. The changes cover updates to build scripts, configuration files, and Visual Studio solution/project files to accommodate ARM64 architecture, ensuring compatibility and enabling compilation and functionality on Windows ARM64 platforms.


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Latest maintenance release brings improved stability and fixes to the powerful free office suite

Berlin, 30 April 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.3, the third maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, which is now available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. This release includes dozens of bug fixes and compatibility enhancements that further improve the suite’s performance, reliability and interoperability.

LibreOffice 25.2.3 is part of the LibreOffice 25.2 series, which provides a balance of cutting-edge features and production-grade stability. For users requiring a more thoroughly tested version for enterprise environments, the project recommends LibreOffice 24.8.

LibreOffice 25.2.3 is based on the LibreOffice Technology Platform, which enables the development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – including by companies in the ecosystem – that fully support the two available ISO standards for documents: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the closed and proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Products based on LibreOffice technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners with a wide range of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and security patch backports: www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

English manuals for LibreOffice 25.2 Write, Impress, Draw and Math are available for download at books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

Downloading LibreOffice

All available versions of LibreOffice can be downloaded from the same website: www.libreoffice.org/download/. LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project by making a donation: www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.3/RC1. Fixes in RC2: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.3/RC2.


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Screenshot of participants in Document Freedom Day online talk

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 the month by posting a video from Document Freedom Day celebrations with the Nepalese LibreOffice community. Here it is:

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Photo of Budapest with the river and parliament (Photo credit: JStolp on Pixabay)

Winners of LibreOffice merchandise at Prague InstallFest 2025

TDF Annual Report 2024 banner

LibreOffice stand at Augsburger Linux-InfoDay 2025

ODF logo and map of Europe with Germany highlighted

Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join our community and help to make LibreOffice even better!


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This FirebirdSQL pull request introduces SQL-compliant aliases GREATEST and LEAST for the existing MAXVALUE and MINVALUE functions. These aliases align with the SQL:2023 standard and provide a more intuitive and widely recognized syntax. The changes include updates to documentation, keywords, parser tokens, and system function definitions to support these new aliases.


Tuesday
29 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-29 Tuesday

21:00 UTC

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  • Long planning call; sync with Karen, lunch, catch up with Kendy, sync with Eloy, admin. Out for a run with J. multi-partner call, mail.

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ODF logo and map of Europe highlighting Germany

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data.

So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format (and the default used in LibreOffice). The German IT Planning Council is a 17-member committee consisting of representatives of Germany’s federal government and the state governments. They say:

Open formats and open interfaces are an important building block for the necessary transformation process of public administration in Germany on the path to greater digital sovereignty and innovation.

The IT Planning Council is committed to ensuring that open formats such as the Open Document Format (ODF) are increasingly used in public administration and become the standard for document exchange by 2027. It is commissioning the Standardization Board to implement this.

More information (in German) on this page. Also see the updates from Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice.


Monday
28 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-28 Monday

21:00 UTC

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  • Up early, mail chew, sync with Miklos, most of the rest of my team apparently out on holiday - or have their whole country's electricity grid collapsed. Tested 25.04 - found a couple of ship-blocking issues.
  • Debugged the issues, and did some hacking elsewhere. Got an (only) 30% win threading slideshow layer compression: seems the problems are as always in the browser.
  • Partner call.

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LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo

The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. In 2024, it took place in Luxembourg

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

This was our third in-person conference after the COVID pandemic, following on from the Milan conference in 2022 and Bucharest conference in 2023, but we also lived-streamed sessions so that participants could watch remotely (and ask questions in our chat channels too).

The conference took place from 10 – 12 October 2024 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, which is around a 20 minute train ride from Luxembourg City. As public transport is free in the whole country, attendees staying in the city didn’t need to buy tickets to attend the event in Belval.

Conference Tracks and extra sessions

Opening sessions were given by Eliane Domingos (chairperson of the Board of Directors at TDF), Serge Linkels (Managing Director of the Digital Learning Hub and 42 Luxembourg), and Stéphanie Obertin (Luxembourg’s Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education).

Then there were presentations and talks were given across various “tracks”, or categories: LibreOffice Development; ODF and Interoperability; LibreOffice Design and Accessibility; and LibreOffice Marketing. There were highly technical talks focused on specific areas of LibreOffice and source code, along with more open discussions about community building and recent updates from The Document Foundation.

The conference also had some extra tracks to broaden its scope beyond just LibreOffice, and raise awareness about free and open source software (cybersecurity, EdTech and Open Source Program Office).

A workshop for new developers was held in parallel with the main tracks over the three days of the conference, and many different things around LibreOffice development were discussed, including: bug reporting and triaging; Git and Gerrit basics; building LibreOffice from its source code; and automation via scripting.

Sponsoring and merchandise

Partner sponsors were Collabora Productivity, Passbolt and SnT (University of Luxembourg), while venue sponsors were Digital Learning Hub and 42 Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre organised the EdTech track, and local supporters were Business Events Luxembourg, LU-CIX, LIST and Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity. Thanks to the sponsors, attendees could get merchandise at the event, including T-shirts with the conference logo.

Full programme and videos

Full details about the event are available on our main conference website. For a quick overview of all the talks, including links to PDF versions of the presentations, see the schedule. 63 videos – covering almost all of the talks are available as a playlist on our YouTube channel:

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Conference in 2025

Planning is already underway for the LibreOffice Conference 2025, which will take place in


Sunday
27 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-27 Sunday

21:00 UTC

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  • All Saints, Sue lead the family service, I lead worship with Steve, Cedric, Rick & Lydia - fun.
  • Back for Lasagne with E. in the sun, chatted. E. to a new church in Cambridge with a friend.
  • Black Mirror, Blacklist and The Residence in the evening.

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Además del entorno de programación simplificada de EasyMacro, existe también el que fue desarrollado por otros entusiastas de LibreOffice. Esta vez son los señores Jean-Pierre Ledure, Alain Romedenne y Rafael Lima quienes le dieron luz a ScriptForge.[1] Ellos …


Saturday
26 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-26 Saturday

21:00 UTC

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  • Pottered around the house, got the mower setup after more comic configuation errors (software!) to tackle the front lawn with obstacle cut-outs. Packed outside tap gland with PTFE tape. Bit of code review.
  • Out for a walk with J. - lay in the sun on the race-course together talking - lovely.
  • Took down peach-tree leaf-curl avoiding cover: fitted replacement timer for central heating. Sealed various suspicious gaps in the pantry causing mystery drafts(?)

Friday
25 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-25 Friday

21:00 UTC

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  • Mail chew, sync with Dave, scan at hospital, back for a partner call. Listened to an interesting TTT from Jonathan on complex text - with M. at lunch.
  • Back for a partner call, mail chew, patch review, dinner, watched movies with babes. Caught up with Nicolas in the evening.

Thursday
24 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-24 Thursday

21:00 UTC

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  • Up in the night to try to get a day of skipped admin under control. Worked from 2am, quick sleep before a meeting ruined by failed alarm-clock.
  • Technical marketing writer offer call, reviewed H's interesting paper on temperature & humidity sensors characterization. Sync with Lily.
  • Sorry to see H. go "home" to University. Home group in the evening, rest.

Wednesday
23 April, 2025


[en] Michael Meeks: 2025-04-23 Wednesday

21:00 UTC

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  • Up early, sync with Dave, Tracie & a partner. Encouraging monthly all-hands. Collabora quarterly mgmt meeting for much of the afternoon.
  • Published the next strip: Draft Governance Rules
    The Open Road to Freedom - strip#15 - draft governance rules?
  • Band practice in the evening.

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