May 13 2016
In 2016, LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, and organized by OpenAlt, from September 7 to 9.
Details of Call for Papers, open until July 15, 2016, are available at:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/04/08/libreoffice-brno-conference-call-for-paper/.
Registration for the conference is open at:
http://conference.libreoffice.org/2016/registration/.
May 13 2016
The Document Foundation (TDF) announced LibreOffice 5.1.3, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family, supporting Google Drive remote connectivity on GNU/Linux and MacOS X.
LibreOffice 5.1.3 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters
and power users. For more conservative users, and for enterprise
deployments, TDF suggests the “still” version: LibreOffice 5.0.6.
LibreOffice 5.1.3 is available for download from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/.
Mar 22 2016
Bruce Byfield’s much-anticipated book, Designing with LibreOffice has been published by Friends of OpenDocument, Inc. Read about it here or jump straight to the download/buy page to get a free PDF or buy a printed copy.
Carla Schroder, Author of The Linux Cookbook, The Linux Network Cookbook, and The Book of Audacity, says this about the book:
“Designing With LibreOffice” teaches everything you need to know about document production: chapters, footnotes, citations, indexes, outlines, cross-references, incorporating images and spreadsheets, and controlling the appearance of your documents. It is well-organized and contains abundant examples, and is suitable for beginners to wizened old pros, who will probably discover things about LibreOffice that they didn’t know.
Mar 22 2016
The LibreOffice Documentation Team has published Getting Started with LibreOffice 5.0.
Free PDFs can be downloaded from The Document Foundation’s wiki.
Printed copies can be purchased here. (Published by Friends of OpenDocument Inc.)
Jun 19 2015
Collabora announced on 18 June 2015:
The world’s most popular Open Source Office Suite is now available on OS X via one-step install following Collabora Productivity’s launch today of two new apps in the Mac App Store. End-users can get LibreOffice on OS X with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional professional support, for the first time.
For US$10 LibreOffice-from-Collabora provides the enterprise-hardened productivity suite for business and public sector, including three years of maintenance updates.
You can get it here.
For those who don’t want or need the enterprise-level product, you can get LibreOffice Vanilla free here.
Collabora also announced:
The LibreOffice Vanilla app is almost identical to the latest copy of LibreOffice Fresh by Document Foundation contributors. It comes fresh from them, to you, after packaging by Collabora, and distribution by Apple.
LibreOffice for Mac will continue to be available for free download directly from the LibreOffice website, along with versions for Windows and Linux.