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Our Documentation community has been working hard on updated guidebooks for LibreOffice. Learn more, and give them a hand – helping out is a great way to build up experience in technical writing: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/24/documentation-team-status/

LibreOffice is more than an office suite – it's a community that you can join to build up skills, get experience for future career options, and have fun! Meet the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, and find out what projects they oversee: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/25/get-involved-meet-the-tdf-team/

Help to spread the word about LibreOffice, free software and open standards – mention it in your email signature! It's super quick and easy to do: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/18/spread-the-word-add-libreoffice-to-your-email-signature/

Organizers of the online openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference are pleased to announce that the schedule for the conference is published: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/16/conference-organizers-announce-schedule-and-platform-registration/

Great new features are coming to LibreOffice 7.1, due early next year, thanks to student developers in the Google Summer of Code @gsoc! For instance, you'll be able to get templates and add-ons directly inside LibreOffice itself: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/15/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2020-the-results/

LibreOffice is about much more than just a free office suite. It's a worldwide project and community that anyone can join, and build up their skills – potentially leading to a full-time job in the LibreOffice ecosystem! See how Pranam Lashkari got started: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/14/community-member-monday-pranam-lashkari-collabora-gsoc/

In August, LibreOffice's QA community resolved 630 bug reports. In addition, developers worked on improvements to DOCX compatibility, while Google Summer of Code @gsoc students reported back on their work. Learn more: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2020/09/10/qa-dev-report-august-2020/

Do you work in a school, college, university or local organisation? Want to help spread the word about LibreOffice? We have some magazines to give away, to people who can make good use of them: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/10/discover-libreoffice-magazines-for-schools-and-communities/

Software Freedom Day 2020 is coming up, on September 19! Mike Saunders and Italo Vignoli will give an online talk for Free Software Australia, exploring LibreOffice's past and future: https://freesoftware.org.au/blog/software-freedom-day-19th-of-september-2020/

LibreOffice 7.0.1 is now available, with over 70 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Thanks to our worldwide community and ecosystem partners for their work on this release! Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/03/libreoffice-701/

Who makes LibreOffice? How can you – as a user – get involved in the community? And what can you contribute to the project? Get all these answers, and build up your skillset, in the upcoming LibreOffice Conference online hackfest: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/02/build-your-skills-join-our-online-hackfest-during-the-libreoffice-conference/

Community makes LibreOffice awesome! In August, the Spanish-speaking LibreOffice community met online, and had talks about Writer, Calc, mail merge, Zotero integration, and other topics: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/01/hispanic-libreoffice-community-fourth-virtual-meeting/

Tomáš Chvátal likes parrots. And he also likes helping the LibreOffice and openSUSE communities, by packaging up the software and spreading awareness of The Document Foundation: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/31/community-member-monday-tomas-chvatal/

LibreOffice 7.0 includes many under-the-hood technical improvements, such as the Skia graphics engine with Vulkan support. Thanks to Luboš Luňák, CollaboraOffice and AMD for making it happen! Learn more: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/success-story/implementing-vulkan-capable-libreoffice-user-interface-using-the-skia-library/

Where did LibreOffice come from? Discover its rich history in the timeline on our website, through the days of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, to its current status. It's by far the most actively developed free office suite, with regular major releases: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

LibreOffice 7.0 includes many new image galleries: arrows, diagrams, flowcharts, icons, network images, and other shapes and symbols. A huge thanks to @andreaskainz1 and @zalmut for their work! Learn more about our Design Community: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design

Talks submitted for the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference have been reviewed and accepted by the conference organizers: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/18/opensuse-libreoffice-virtual-conference-talks-accepted/

LibreOffice 7.0 includes major document compatibility improvements. Here you can see a predefined table style in PowerPoint (left), and the .pptx file opened in LibreOffice 6.4 (middle) and 7.0 (right). Thanks to Gülşah Köse and Collabora for the work!

LibreOffice 7.0 introduces a fresh new icon theme, Sukapura, thanks to Rizal Muttaqin from our community! Go to Tools > Options > View > Icon Style to try it out. (It's also the default on new LibreOffice installations on macOS.)

We're still on the lookout for a Development Mentor to join our team at The Document Foundation! Help new developers get on board with LibreOffice coding – the deadline for applications is September 15: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/21/join-our-team-job-search-for-a-development-mentor-m-f-d-202007-01/