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Italo Vignoli | 9 May 2013 09:08
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0.3

Berlin, May 9, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces
LibreOffice 4.0.3, for Windows, OS X and Linux, the third minor release
of LibreOffice 4.0 family. OS X Intel packages are now signed by The
Document Foundation, to pass OS X Gatekeeper security without user
intervention.

In the meantime, another large migration to LibreOffice has been
announced, as the government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura
has just begun the switch to free software of desktop PCs and expects
the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated by the end of 2013.
Extremadura estimates that the move to open source - including
LibreOffice - will help save 30 million Euro per year.

Community is growing too. After the success of the LibreOffice Impress
Sprint in Germany, it is now the turn of the first LibreOffice Bay Area
Meetup. It will take place on May 11, 2013 starting at 2pm in the Hacker
Dojo in Mountain View, California. Bjoern Michaelsen will be there for
some good Q&A, and most importantly for some hands-on work on how to get
involved in the project, with Simon Phipps keynoting about "Foundations
and Empires".

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice are still growing at a steady
pace: +13% year over year according to data parsed by Ohloh, with an
average of over 100 active developers per month since February 2013.
These figures tops the cumulative number of over 650 new developers
attracted by the project since the announcement on September 28, 2010.

Developers are contributing not only to the code but also to the quality
of the software, as in the case of Markus Mohrhard's python script for
LibreOffice that automatically imports some 24,500 documents and tests
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Italo Vignoli | 11 Apr 2013 15:02
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.6

Berlin, April 11, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces
LibreOffice 3.6.6, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, targeted to enterprises
and individual end users who prefer stability to more advanced features.
This new release is suited to the increasing number of organizations
migrating to LibreOffice, which is steadily growing worldwide.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can
support The Document Foundation with a donation. There is a donation
page - with many options including PayPal and credit cards - at
http://donate.libreoffice.org, to support the growth of the project in
areas such as infrastructure, marketing and development of native
language communities.

LibreOffice 3.6.6 is available for immediate download from the following
link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice
are available from the following link:
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center.

The change log - with over 50 bugs solved - is available at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.6.6/RC1 (fixed in
3.6.6.1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.6.6/RC2
(fixed in 3.6.6.2).

Short link to The Document Foundation blog: http://wp.me/p1byPE-oo.

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Florian Effenberger | 4 Apr 2013 12:05
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0.2

Berlin, April 4, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces 
LibreOffice 4.0.2, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, the third release of 
the LibreOffice 4.0 family that fixes several small bugs and glitches.

This is another important milestone in the process of improving the 
quality and stability of the bleeding edge version of LibreOffice, and 
facilitating the migration process to free software. The Document 
Foundation has recently published a white paper to provide a reference 
roadmap for migrations to LibreOffice, which is available here: 
http://tinyurl.com/mwp-v1.

To foster the development of LibreOffice, The Document Foundation needs 
your support! There is a dedicated donation page at 
http://donate.libreoffice.org that lists various options to contribute 
to the budget of the charitable entity.

LibreOffice 4.0.2 is available for immediate download from the following 
link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice 
are available from the following link: http://extensions.libreoffice.org.

The change log is available at 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.0.2/RC1 (fixed in 
4.0.2.1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.0.2/RC2 
(fixed in 4.0.2.2).

Short link to The Document Foundation blog: http://wp.me/p1byPE-oi

About The Document Foundation (TDF)

The Document Foundation is an open, independent, self-governing,
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Italo Vignoli | 27 Mar 2013 13:16
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TDF releases White Paper to help migrations to LibreOffice

Berlin, March 27, 2013 - The Document Foundation releases a white paper 
to help organizations migrate to LibreOffice. Published on Document 
Freedom Day, the text explains how governments and enterprises can 
leverage Free Software to lower their IT expenditures and get rid of 
proprietary software lock-in.

Link to white paper: 
http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/tdf-migrationwhitepaper1.pdf.

According to the white paper, migrations to Free Software - and 
especially to LibreOffice - should follow a carefully crafted change 
management process, which needs to handle not only the technical 
aspects, which are actually the easiest ones to cope with, but also the 
barriers met when breaking long-term working habits.

LibreOffice liberates the users from proprietary document formats by 
adopting natively ODF (Open Document Format), which is the standard 
document format recognized by the largest number of organizations and 
supported by the largest number of desktop software (including Microsoft 
Office).

In addition, LibreOffice offers the largest set of import filters for 
proprietary document formats (including Microsoft Office, Publisher, 
Visio and Works, plus Corel Draw, Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPro, Quattro Pro 
and WordPerfect), and thus protects user investments in legacy 
applications, while providing a migration path to ODF.

Last but not least, LibreOffice templates are using only free fonts 
available on every OS which can be installed independently from any 
software package and thus foster interoperability between GNU/Linux,
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Italo Vignoli | 6 Mar 2013 12:58
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0.1

Impress Remote for Android now available on every platform

Berlin, March 6, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces
LibreOffice 4.0.1, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, the first release after
the successful launch of LibreOffice 4.0 in early February, which has
yielded rates of entirely new client IP addresses requesting updates
each day over the 100,000 mark (they were just 25,000 one year ago).

LibreOffice Impress Remote is now available for all platforms - Linux,
MacOS and Windows - from Google Play
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libreoffice.impressremote&hl=en.
How to instructions are available on the wiki:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Impress/RemoteHowTo.

The new release is a step forward in the process of improving the
overall quality and stability of LibreOffice 4.0. For enterprise
adoptions, though, The Document Foundation suggests the more solid and
stable LibreOffice 3.6.5, backed by certified level 3 support engineers.

The Documentation team has also released the guide "Getting Started with
LibreOffice 4.0", which is available in PDF and ODF formats from the
website (http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/) and as a
printed book from Lulu
(http://www.lulu.com/shop/libreoffice-documentation-team/libreoffice-40-getting-started-guide/paperback/product-20725693.html).

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can
support The Document Foundation - infrastructure, marketing, community
development - with a donation. There is a donation page - with many
options including PayPal and credit cards - at
http://donate.libreoffice.org.
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Italo Vignoli | 7 Feb 2013 13:05
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.0

The free office suite the community has been dreaming of for twelve years

Berlin, February 7, 2013 - The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice
4.0, the free office suite the community has been dreaming of since
2001. LibreOffice 4.0 is the first release that reflects the objectives
set by the community at the time of the announcement, in September 2010:
a cleaner and leaner code base, an improved set of features, better
interoperability, and a more diverse and inclusive ecosystem.

LibreOffice 4.0: a community on fire

In less than 30 months, LibreOffice has grown dramatically to become the
largest independent free software project focused on end user desktop
productivity. TDF inclusive governance and the copyleft license have
been instrumental in attracting more than 500 developers - three
quarters of them being independent volunteers - capable of contributing
over 50,000 commits.

The resulting code base is rather different from the original one, as
several million lines of code have been added and removed, by adding new
features, solving bugs and regressions, adopting state of the art C++
constructs, replacing tools, getting rid of deprecated methods and
obsoleted libraries, and translating twenty five thousand lines of
comments from German to English. All of this makes the code easier to
understand and more rewarding to be involved with for the stream of new
members of our community.

"LibreOffice 4.0 is a milestone in interoperability and an excellent
foundation for our continued work to improve the User Interface,"
explains Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board of Directors. "Our
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Florian Effenberger | 30 Jan 2013 13:09
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.5

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.5
Volunteers will present the progress in code development at FOSDEM

Berlin, January 30, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces 
LibreOffice 3.6.5, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, which is going to be 
the last of LibreOffice 3.6 family before LibreOffice 4.0, the next 
major release. This new release is another step forward in the process 
of improving the overall quality and stability of LibreOffice, and 
facilitating the migration process to free software.

LibreOffice 3.6.5 arrives a couple of days before FOSDEM 2013 (Brussels, 
Belgium, February 2/3), where TDF developer's community will gather for 
the third time since the birth of the project. LibreOffice will have a 
booth in building K and a DevRoom - with several talks about hacking the 
source code - in building H 
(https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/libreoffice/) on Sunday, 
February 3, from 9:30AM onwards (room H.2213).

In addition, on Sunday at 3PM Michael Meeks will speak about 
"LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base (or why 
re-writing it would be even worse)" 
(https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/challenges_libreoffice/), in 
Room Janson.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation with a donation. There is a donation 
page - with many options including PayPal and credit cards - at 
http://donate.libreoffice.org, to support the infrastructure.

LibreOffice 3.6.5 is available for immediate download from the following
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Italo Vignoli | 20 Dec 2012 12:13
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LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license

The full fledged free office suite is available on the credit card sized
single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation

Cambridge (UK) and Berlin (Germany), December 20, 2012 - The Raspberry
Pi Foundation (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and The Document Foundation
(http://www.documentfoundation.org/) announce the availability of the
full fledged version of LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) on the
Raspberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer created with the intention
of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The
Raspberry Pi is a little PC which plugs into a TV and a keyboard and can
be used for many of the things that most desktop PC can do, like
spreadsheets, word-processing and games.

LibreOffice is the first comprehensive office suite to run on a 40
dollar credit card sized PC, without any compromise on features and
performances. LibreOffice has been ported to ARM by multiple
contributors from Canonical, Debian and RedHat, and was packaged for the
Raspberry Pi by Rene Engelhard as a part of his work as the Debian
maintainer for LibreOffice.

"The availability of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever, on
the Raspberry Pi - the most affordable PC ever, targeted to hardware and
software enthusiasts, and schools - is extremely important for The
Document Foundation, because it will contribute to the growth of the
brand awareness in key market segments", comments Bjoern Michaelsen, a
Canonical developer and a deputy member of the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

"I'm very impressed that the LibreOffice team didn't have to make any
changes to the code in order for it to compile and smoothly run on
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Cor Nouws | 7 Dec 2012 21:33
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LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon: December 14 to 19


  The Document Foundation announces a 6 day Test Marathon
  to help preparing the new 4.0 version of LibreOffice,
  the best free office suite ever

Berlin, December 7 2012,  The Document Foundation announces the 
LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon. During 6 days, from December 14 to 19, 
users and supporters around the world will be testing the first beta of 
the upcoming LibreOffice 4.0.

The final version of LibreOffice 4.0 will be released in February 2013. 
By organising this big Test Marathon early, the developers will be able 
to fix many bugs before the release candidates and the final version are 
made available.

The LibreOffice community has organised various bug hunt sessions 
before, with many people joining, bugs found and tests done. This has 
contributed considerably to the overall quality of the product.
Also participants were enthusiastic. Thanks to helping in the QA work, 
they learned a lot about powerful functions of LibreOffice and tricks 
how to use the office suite.

Participating is easy and fun. Since the event is lasting a week, 
everyone may choose the moments that suit them best.

Details are available on the wiki of The Document Foundation
   http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Test_Marathon_LibreOffice_4.0.
There's also an overview of LibreOffice 4.0 new and improved features 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0.
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Italo Vignoli | 5 Dec 2012 12:25
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LibreOffice 3.6.4 Download

I apologize, but I have sent out the announcement one hour before it was
intended to be launched. The download page will be ready in less than
one hour, at 12UTC (or GMT).

Unfortunately when I have programmed the message and the blog post I
have used 12CET, which is my time zone (being based in Italy).

Please be patient, I am an old man...

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Italo Vignoli | 5 Dec 2012 12:00
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.4

Berlin, December 5, 2012 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces
LibreOffice 3.6.4, for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This new release is
another step forward in the process of improving the overall quality and
stability for any kind of deployment, on personal desktops or inside
organizations and companies of any size.

LibreOffice 3.6.4 arrives a couple of weeks after the successful LiMux
HackFest, where more than 30 developers have gathered to hack
LibreOffice code and work on features and patches. One result is this
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIqOOajdYQ&hd=1 - by Peter
Baumgarten and Christian Lohmeier, showing how easy it is to build
LibreOffice on your own to get involved in the project.

Additional results can be found on the wiki:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Munich2012#Achievements.

LibreOffice hacker community will gather again at FOSDEM 2013, in a
focused DevRoom -
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2013 -
dedicated to attracting new hackers around the code of the best free
office suite ever. Call for papers ends on December 23, 2012.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can
support The Document Foundation with a donation. There is a donation
page - with many options including PayPal and credit cards - at
http://donate.libreoffice.org, to support the fundraising campaign for 2013.

LibreOffice 3.6.4 is available for immediate download from the following
link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice
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