The Document Foundation (a non-profit organization that promotes open-source document processing software, among other things) announced last Friday its ambition to expand its community by launching a new LibreOffice New Generation program , which should allow it to attract more people, especially young people.
LibreOffice New Generation is a project aimed at attracting new people, especially young people, to the LibreOffice community. The foundation announced that while it is proud of the diversity of its current community and the presence of people of all ages, it believes that young people are helping to bring new ideas and approaches to the project.
LibreOffice New Generation: what is it?
“Today we announce a new project: LibreOffice New Generation. It's not about the software, it's about the people behind it. As you probably know, LibreOffice is created by a global community of certified developers and volunteers, who work on source code, translations, documentation, design, quality control, marketing, infrastructure, and more. We want to reach more people, ”the foundation said in a blog post on Friday.
According to the blog post, absolutely anyone can join the project ; however, the participation of young people is desired and encouraged.
"For this reason, we would like everyone to help us involve young collaborators in the project and help them get involved in our teams," said the foundation. Therefore, The Document Foundation announces that if you are a student or high school student using LibreOffice, it would like to hear from you or, more precisely, your answers to a series of questions it has. Why do you use LibreOffice? How can you improve it?
Regarding the work to be done, The Document Foundation said that many students who contribute to free and open-source software projects like to have something that validates their work.
To this end , they issued open badges for community contributions —special badges with metadata inside that show what someone has done. “So we’d like to start distributing them to younger and newer members of the community as well,” he said.
The Document Foundation calls these badges Open Badges and would also like to reward the work of young people with these badges.
“We have other ideas and projects, but we would love to hear from you! What else can we offer you? How can we recognize and reward employees for their work? Let us know what you think… ”he added.
How to register in LibreOffice New Generation?
To learn more about the project's progress , the foundation invites interested parties to join its Telegram group . There, you can discuss Open Badges and other ideas about LibreOffice New Generation with them.
“We look forward to meeting you and hearing your ideas and experiences,” concluded Mike Saunders.
Finally, for those who are still unfamiliar with LibreOffice, it is a free, open-source office suite derived from the OpenOffice.org project, created and maintained by The Document Foundation.
Its clean interface and advanced tools allow you to unleash your creativity and develop your productivity. LibreOffice integrates various applications: writing the word processing software, calculating the spreadsheet, printing the presentation module, drawing the drawing and flowchart application, basing the database and database interface and math the editor of mathematical formulas.
The latest major version of LibreOffice, LibreOffice 7.0, was released last August . LibreOffice 7 introduced a number of key changes and improvements, including greatly enhanced compatibility with the Microsoft Office suite.
The performance improvements come from the Vulkan GPU-based acceleration built into LibreOffice after the Cairo code was moved to Google's Skia library. For fans of the aesthetic change, there is a new look to the Sukapura icon theme, which is the default theme for macOS users.
Finally, if you would like to know more about the news, you can find the details at the following link.