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Individuals & Organizations continue migration to LibreOffice

By Peter Groen | March 31, 2013

The Document Foundation (TDF) just released a white paper to help individuals and organizations migrate to use of LibreOffice - a high quality, free and open source personal productivity and office software suite. This is an alternative many healthcare organizations ought to seriously consider. See Migrating to LibreOffice to promote software and document freedom. Read More »

Libre Office and the Document Fundation in 2012

Susan Linton | OStatic | December 26, 2012

LibreOffice was chosen Best Office Suite 2012 by Linux Journal's Member Choice Awards. Over 14,000,000 downloads in all have been tallied for LibreOffice in 2012. Read More »

LibreOffice 4.0: The Big Changes Will Be Under The Hood

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 27, 2013

There's a new major version of open-source LibreOffice office suite on its way, but developers, not end-users, will be the ones who will notice the real changes. Read More »

LibreOffice 4: A New, Better Open-Source Office Suite

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | February 7, 2013

Some people love Microsoft Office, which just jumped to Office 2013; some like cloud-based office programs such as Google Docs and Office 365; but me, I'm still partial to LibreOffice, the popular open-source office suite. And, at first glance, the latest version, 4.0, looks better than ever. Read More »

LibreOffice Is One

Simon Phipps | Computer World UK | October 4, 2011

Once in the mists of time, I was the head of open source at Sun Microsystems. One of my chief delights in that role was the OpenOffice.org project. I attended the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Monterey, California in 2000 where the project was created out of a product Sun had acquired the previous year, StarOffice. I watched as it grew in polish and capability. Read More »

The Document Foundation Celebrates Its First Anniversary

Italovignoli | The Document Foundation | September 28, 2011

The Document Foundation (TDF) celebrates its first anniversary, one year after the unveiling of the project and the release of the first beta of LibreOffice. “What we have achieved in just twelve months is incredible,” says Charles Schulz, a member of the Steering Committee. Read More »

UK Makes ODF Its Official Documents Format Standard

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | July 22, 2014

Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents...

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LibreOffice Conference 2014

Event Details

Type:

Conference

Date:

September 2, 2014 (All day) - September 5, 2014 (All day)

Link:

Libre Office Conference 2014

Location:

University of Bern Bern

Switzerland

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The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the worldwide LibreOffice Community and interested developers, marketers, adopters, end-users and supporters. This year, the LibreOffice Conference will be held in Bern, Switzerland, on September 02 - 05, 2014, at the Bern University. Our program reflects the broad engagement and diversity of the community: it includes talks and workshops from various areas of the project. We currently work on the program and put it online as soon as possible.

The LibreOffice Conference 2014 will be jointly organized by the Document Foundation (TDF), the Swiss Open Systems User Group, and the Research Center for Digital Sustainability of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Bern and hosted by the University of Bern.