LibreOffice @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

Check out these awesome community developers, who improved LibreOffice last Month! Join our dev team and build up your skills: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/

Last year, Kukuh Syafaat designed this awesome logo for the LibreOffice Conference 2020. Today, we're starting a contest to design this year's logo! Join in, show off your design skills, and win some lovely LibreOffice merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/22/design-the-libreoffice-conference-2021-logo/

If you find LibreOffice useful, why not contribute back to the community that makes it! You don't need to be a programmer – you can help out with guides and translations, like Manuel Frassinetti does: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/21/community-member-monday-manuel-frassinetti/

OpenDocument is the native file format of LibreOffice, and is supported by many other productivity tools. Here's an update from the Technical Committee that works to improve it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/21/update-from-the-odf-tc/

A new major release of LibreOffice is coming up! Yes, LibreOffice 7.2 will include a bunch of new improvements and features – and is due to be released in August. Help our developer community to test and polish it: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2021/06/18/libreoffice-7-2-beta1-is-available-for-testing/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Rename your slides in Impress to help you more clearly define "Go to page" interactions, and to have a summary more explicit than "Slide1, Slide2" etc…

Social media, blogs and websites – we at The Document Foundation (the non-profit behind LibreOffice) use these to spread the word, and find new contributors. Learn about what we did in 2020: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/17/annual-report-2020-website-blogs-and-social-media/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Use Sheet > Fill Cells > Random Number to generate a random series based on various distributions. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-GB/text/scalc/01/02140700.html

Next week, Hossein Nourikhah will join the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, as Developer Community Architect. He'll help to bring new contributors to the LibreOffice project, and get them started: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/16/hossein-nourikhah-joins-the-tdf-team-as-developer-community-architect/

LibreOffice's Documentation Team – largely driven by volunteers – achieved many great things in 2020! Get the handbooks they created, and get involved: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/07/libreoffice-documentation-team-activities-in-2020/

Announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021! Everyone who contributed to our projects last month can claim a cool sticker pack – and there's some bonus merch too: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/06/announcing-the-winners-in-the-month-of-libreoffice-may-2021/

Lots of awesome things are happening in the LibreOffice community – new releases, user guide updates, @gsoc and more. Check out our recap of May 2021: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/02/libreoffice-monthly-recap-may-2021-community-activities/

Local communities help to spread the word about LibreOffice, and encourage users to get involved. In May, the Albanian community had its first in-person meetup in quite a while! More here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/01/albanian-community-meeting-may-2021/

We're moving our IRC channels to Libera.Chat. We use these for communication in many projects in the LibreOffice community. More info here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/31/libreoffice-irc-channels-moving-to-libera-chat/

Our infrastructure team helps us to support the LibreOffice and Document Liberation projects. Here's what they achieved last year: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/30/annual-report-2020-tdf-and-libreoffice-infrastructure/

Learn more about LibreOffice – but take a break from your computer screen! Many handbooks, produced by our documentation community, are available in printed form: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/29/get-printed-copies-of-libreoffice-handbooks/

New feature coming up in LibreOffice 7.2: All background fills can be set to either cover the page inside the margins, or the entire page. Thanks to Michael Stahl @allotropiaEN for implementing this!

You helped us to create logos for anniversary – 10 years (LibreOffice) and 20 years (OpenOffice). And our conference last year. Now you can join our logo contest for the "LibreOffice Technology" and "Ecosystem" brands! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/28/contest-for-libreoffice-ecosystem-and-libreoffice-technology-logo/

The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. Find out what we did in 2020, thanks to generous donations! We organised events, improved our infrastructure, and worked on many projects: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/27/tdf-annual-report-2020/

Tell the world on Mastodon about #LibreOffice and get a cool sticker pack! It's part of the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021 – which ends in a few days: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/17/month-of-libreoffice-may-2021-half-way-through/