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Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/11/euro-office-open-standards-and-native-odf/
Published: June 11, 2026 06:17
A welcome commitment to open standards — and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Office’s native document format. The Euro-Office pre-announcement has generated considerable coverage across the European press over the past few days. The Document Foundation…
LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2026
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/10/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-may-2026/
Published: June 10, 2026 10:03
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started May by announcing the new LibreOffice website. Our previous website was looking rather old and becoming…
Join the LibreOffice team as a paid system administrator, working on TDF’s infrastructure (full-time, remote, m/f/d)
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-system-administrator-working-on-tdfs-infrastructure-full-time-remote-m-f-d/
Published: June 8, 2026 15:01
Love LibreOffice? Got experience with infrastructure and system administration? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new people with…
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
Published: June 8, 2026 06:53
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source…
The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.4
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/05/tdf-releases-libreoffice-26-2-4/
Published: June 5, 2026 11:20
Berlin, 5 June 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers…
A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/
Published: June 2, 2026 09:19
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist…
Meet the team at The Document Foundation
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/01/meet-the-team-at-the-document-foundation/
Published: June 1, 2026 07:14
LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world, working on code, documentation, QA, translations, marketing, infrastructure and much more. Coordinating the project’s activities is the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind…
Web and Mobile Development Strategy Proposal
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/30/web-and-mobile-development-strategy-proposal/
Published: May 30, 2026 08:48
Executive Summary This proposal suggests restarting LibreOffice web, mobile, and cloud development by structuring the project into a set of independent initiatives. Each initiative can be pursued separately from the others, and their deliverables will be…
ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/28/odf-vs-ooxml-an-issue-that-should-never-have-existed/
Published: May 28, 2026 08:37
A number of journalists read last week’s piece as an attack on Microsoft. We want to explain what they walked past. Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to…
New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/27/new-web-and-mobile-strategy-for-libreoffice/
Published: May 27, 2026 08:22
LibreOffice is a desktop application, and we will continue making it. But we have constant requests for web and mobile versions, so here is our updated plan. These are minutes from the TDF Team and Board of Directors meetings on web and mobile strategy for…
LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF Annual Report 2025
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/26/libreoffice-native-language-projects-tdf-annual-report-2025/
Published: May 26, 2026 08:23
LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages, thanks to the work of localisation communities around the world. We asked them to summarise their work in 2025 – here’s what they had to say… Czech The Czech community maintained an active presence both…
How your donations help the LibreOffice project and community
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/19/how-your-donations-help-the-libreoffice-project-and-community/
Published: May 19, 2026 08:22
LibreOffice is free thanks to your donations. Here’s how your support helps us to improve the software and grow the community that makes it 😊 (Note: this video is also available on PeerTube.) Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By…