Mike Saunders talks to Jonathan Clark, who is working on improving LibreOffice's language support, especially in terms of right-to-left (RTL) and complex text layout (CTL) scripts. Learn more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/29/interview-jonathan-clark/

Mike Saunders talks to Michael Weghorn, who is working on improving accessibility in LibreOffice. What does "accessible" actually mean? In what ways does software need to be accessible? And how can users help out? We discuss these topics – and more. (Sorry for the lack of live video in the first 10 minutes!) Wiki page for accessibility, with further links: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility Accessibility mailing list: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org – Instructions how to subscribe and mailing list archives can be found here: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists Accessibility-related tickets in Bugzilla are organized in two ways: Via accessibility meta bugs – link for currently open tickets in that accessibility meta bug hierarchy: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=101912&hide_resolved=1 Via an "accessibility" keyword – current list of open tickets that have that keyword set: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility%2C &keywords_type=allwords&list_id=1893200&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

A quick look back at the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2025, which took place in Budapest from 4 - 5 September. LibreOffice is a free and private office suite, the successor project to OpenOffice. More information: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2025/ Music: Inspiration, Rafael Krux, https://freepd.com/upbeat.php

A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.8, the free and private office suite, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers. Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8 Download it: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ Support us: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ Music: Fresh Focus by Kevin MacLeod

Mike Saunders talks to Olivier Hallot, who coordinates LibreOffice's Documentation team. What makes good documentation? Why is it important? And what does the future hold? We discuss these topics – and more. Documentation project website: https://documentation.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a free, open source and powerful office suite for Linux, Windows and macOS. Download it now from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ – in this video, we show you how. After you have downloaded, see the installation guides: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/ LibreOffice was originally based on OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Music: The Lounge, from http://www.bensound.com

Xisco Fauli, Ilmari Lauhakangas and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss Quality Assurance (QA) in free and open source software (FOSS). • Join our QA community: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA • Learn more: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/... • Support us: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

The Open Document Format (ODF) become an OASIS standard in 2005 and an ISO/IEC standard in 2006. Today, is the only true open standard for document formats available on the market, and the only one protecting users from proprietary lock in and ensuring a full control over contents. The presentation provides an overview over ODF features and explains why ODF should be used versus Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Heiko Tietze and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss design and UX in free and open source software (FOSS). • Join our marketing community: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design • Learn more: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ • Support us: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Jacek Plucinski – FOSS team at the Technology Transfer Office of SnT, University of Luxembourg. More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/7MMAQV/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by by Kevin Muller – CEO at Passbolt More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/LZA9WB/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Patrick Weber – Attaché – Ministry for Digitalisation More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/JDSRXJ/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Alexander Smolianitski – Head of Products at ZenDiS / Leonhard Kugler – Head of Open Source Plattform – Open CoDE at ZenDiS More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/DZV9VR/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by François Thill – Director Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/AGBCYK/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Thibaud Latour – Managing director at the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre (LMDDC) More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/SQUTGY/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Mika Lauhde – Head of Technology, Delegation for CyberSpace, International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/XNFTGC/ In recent time, many companies have been forced to take side in geopolitically, which puts institutions, companies and corporates in new situation. Would Open Source be tool to also in the future to stay neutral? ICRC has been working 160 years in humanitarian area. Digitalization is hitting institution like everyone else. How ICRC is seeing OpenSource and neutrality which is aiming acceptance?

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Gijs Hillenius – IT project officer at the European Commission’s Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/NP8ETU/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Enzo Ribagnac – Associate Director for European Policy at the Eclipse Foundation More details: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/XLH8DF/

LibreOffice Conference 2024 talk by Axel Thévenet – Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe – European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR) More information: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/RATS8V/

A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.2, the free and private office suite, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers. Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.2 Download it: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ Support us: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ Music: Motivated to Create by Max Chubrey from Pixabay