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LibreOffice Now Available in ppa for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:03

Libreoffice is now available and installed easily for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 by adding the libreoffice ppa.

The following steps allow the addition of the ppa and the installation of LibreOffice:

Warning: This installs from a ppa and not from the official Ubuntu repository, hence there still might be problems with either the software itself, or the installation process. The installation will remove OpenOffice.

Optionally OpenOffice can be removed with the command

sudo apt-get purge "openoffice*"

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 11-Dec-2010 -- Voice Recording

Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 10:43

The voice recordings for the Document Foundation's steering committee's public phone conference on December 11, 2010 are now available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Talkyoo-537138-2010-12-11-124439...

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 11-Dec-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 15:24

he Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on December 11, 2010, 1400 UTC.


Current agenda items:

  • Support models and how to organise this on an international basis
  • Bylaws State of Affairs

Information for dial-in:

Apache Software Foundation leaves JCP - Red Hat in alliance with proprietary corporations

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 15:14

As previously reported here the Apache Software Foundation threatened to leave the JCP if Oracle would not allow the ASF to use the TCK toolkit for usage for the open source project Harmony that is licensed under the GPL.

ASF called for the other members to support them in voting against Java 7 and 8 until Oracle would abide by its contractual obligations as stated by the ASF.

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 28-Nov-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 09:51

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 28, 2010, 1500 UTC.


Current agenda items:

  • Structure of the native language websites.
  • Status of the Silverstripe website
  • Community Bylaws status and next step (validation or alternatives)
  • Follow-up on the charter or guidelines with local assocations

Information for dial-in:

Libreoffice Beta-3 now available on Debian experimental repositories.

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 13:05

Libreoffice Beta-3 is now available from the Debian experimental repositories.

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 20-Nov-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 09:59

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 20, 2010, 1300 UTC.

The Agenda has no items yet, committee members are asked to add to the agenda.

Information for dial-in:

LibreOffice: First Goals after Forking

Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 08:50

According to golem.de, a German IT news magazine, the Document Foundation has announced its first goals for the office suite LibreOffice. The dependency of Java shall be reduced and a general refactoring of all components is in the plans.

The number of developers has risen to over 90, which is far more than OpenOffice had.

LibreOffice: Request for Contributors and Mentoring

Submitted by txwikinger on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 13:19

David Nelson is asking graphic artists to help with artwork for the project and the new website.

LibreOffice is also searching for a mascot in the lines of the tux penguin.

Furthermore, LibreOffice is looking for mentors from other open source project that can help to develop the infrastructures needed for LibreOffice.

LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 12-Nov-2010

Submitted by txwikinger on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 13:55

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 12, 2010, 1400 UTC.

No Agenda seem to be available yet.

Information for dial-in:

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