What are we doing in the LibreOffice project? Where are we going, and how can all users (yes, even non-programmers) help to improve the software? We answered these questions – and more – at the recent Grazer Linuxtage event. Click here to watch the talk Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Ravi Dwivedi from the Indian LibreOffice community writes: On the 29th of March 2026, we celebrated Document Freedom Day in Noida India. Thanks for Essentia.dev for the venue and sflc.in for sponsoring snacks and the cake. sflc.in is a donor-supported legal services organisation in India. The event featured a few Continue reading at the publisher's website.

The Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (English page) is a yearly event in Germany for fans of free and open source software. This year, the LibreOffice project was present, as Karl-Heinz Gruner describes: LibreOffice had an information booth at the event. Stickers and flyers were very popular. An excerpt from their extensive video Continue reading at the publisher's website.

The LibreOffice Community has now a reshaped website to access the LibreOffice official literature.   Thanks to Juan José Gonzalez (TDF Web Technology Engineer), the bookshelf website has been redesigned to carry new aesthetics and user interface. Web visitors have now a summary of each guide and easy way to Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Yes, we should have published this blog post some time ago. We would like to thank Mike Kaganski, who was affected by the recent suspension of membership, for reminding us so politely of our oversight: mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/the-post-they-managed-to-avoid/. Had we published the post earlier, we would probably have avoided some of the Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Over the past week, a number of articles have appeared in the media and comments have been posted on forums containing questions – some explicitly stated and others implied – directed at The Document Foundation. We have done our best to gather all these questions and provide a response that Continue reading at the publisher's website.

As promised, we are releasing the updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository. During the 12 months 295 developers worked on the source code, adding 11.098 new commits (Git): 221 volunteer developers (75%) provided 1.871 commits (17%); 8 Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Continuing our mission to provide the best LibreOffice documentation for our end users, the Documentation Team is proud to announce the release of the latest Writer Guide for LibreOffice 26.2. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, this guide covers all aspects of the LibreOffice Writer module—from creating simple one-page Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute to it is, in some projects, a source of real and damaging conflict. Let us analyse the meaning Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but Continue reading at the publisher's website.