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What The Document Foundation Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going #LibreOffice #Community #Opensource

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/17/the-foundation-is-strong/

The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog

The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. Not a product. Not a market position. Infrastructure, the kind that belongs to everyone and can be taken from no one. Sixteen years later, that premise is under pressure. And it is worth stating clearly, on the record, what TDF is, what it has done, what it is doing, and why the decisions it has made – including the difficult ones – follow directly from the founding commitment rather than betraying it. What a Foundation Is For Our foundation, like many others, exists to hold something in trust. Not for its current contributors, not for its most prolific developers and not for the companies that build products on top of its work, but for the public, across time. That is not a bureaucratic abstraction. It is a legal and ethical obligation that governs every decision the Board of Directors makes. In Germany, where TDF is registered, such obligations are enforced by law. A gemeinnützige Stiftung – a foundation with charitable status – operates under strict rules designed to

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Amin Girasol 14h ago

You thought things were bad at #TheDocumentFoundation? I suggest re-reading ejected founder Michael Meeks' 1st April post. He's provided several updates.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

Follow the links in Meeks' post. The dysfunction he highlights at TDF is breathtaking.

The evidence he brings to bear shows TDF is toxic to its core and is no longer fit to serve the purposes of #LibreOffice or its community. It solely exists now to perpetuate itself. It should be dissolved.

LibreOffice CZ 15h ago

Přednáška Mike Saunderse na konferenci Grazer Linuxtage: #LibreOffice - Co děláme, kam jdeme a jak nám můžete pomoci
https://media.ccc.de/v/glt26-625-libreoffice-what-we-re-doing-where-we-re-going-and-how-you-can-help

LibreOffice: What we're doing, where we're going, and how you can help

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Tariq 16h ago

How do you change the default font for LibreOffice spreadsheet app Calc?

This question illustrates how ux and ui design still has a way to go in major open source projects that seek to compete with popular proprietary software.

1. The method is not where you'd expect it.

2. It doesn't change the default for Calc, only for that file.

3. Normal users shouldn't have to mess with "templates" and give them "specific names".

4. If the above is wrong, that adds weight to the fact that a fairly tech confident person couldn't find the correct answer.

If I was a billionaire, I'd set up a Foundation to sponsor work on open source UX and UI design.

#opensource #ux #ui #libreoffice #design

LibreOfficeDE 18h ago

Mit den Rahmen in #LibreOffice Writer kannst du gestalten. Die Rahmen sind Container für Text, Grafiken, Textfelder, Tabellen und Bereiche und können in der Größe und Position angepasst werden.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/Frame_in_Writer/de
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #office #schule #Verwaltung

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camillem 19h ago

@frederic Article sympathique, mais pour info, la seule suite installée localement sur les postes c'est #LibreOffice (team #ODF).

jackdaw delila 19h ago

OK, I'm a big fan of #LibreOffice but this is such an unholy array of symbols. Just wanting to add bullet points to a presentation and completely lost...
#LibreOfficeImpress

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duemigsimon 1d ago

@JensKessler Aktuell geht es ja noch. Kann man nutzen wie früher, nur wollen sie einem diesen schlechten Apple KI Kram andrehen. Mal schauen ob sie das irgendwann dann ganz konstenpflichtig machen. Früher haben sie mit kostenlosem Office für Ihre Macs geworben und jetzt dieser Quatsch. Schade das Collabora auf den iPads nicht sinnvoll läuft. Auf dem Mac versuche ich jetzt mehr und mehr #libreoffice zu nutzen. Für vieles reicht auch reiner Markdown Code aus ohne große Office App.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬1d ago

#LibreOffice learns to speak #Markdown in version 26.2
In a world of ever-increasing software complexity, Markdown is a welcome change. Markdown is a document markup format you can just read (please, try to contain your excitement). It has two key advantages. One is that it's so simple that you can write in any old plain text editor. Second is that it's designed to be readable and make sense to humans as well as computers, even if they don't know they're reading Markdown.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/markdown_in_libreoffice/