[HLUG] Fwd: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available

[Julian Robbins]

On 22 March 2011 11:29, Paul Stenning <paul at sp-tech.co.uk> wrote:

> FYI
>

Thanks Paul for this.

Ubuntu Natty , ie 11.04 to come already has this

Julian



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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:59:35 +0100
> From: Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli at documentfoundation.org>
> Reply-To: noreply at documentfoundation.org
> Organisation: The Document Foundation
> To: announce at documentfoundation.org
>
> The Document Foundation maintains its release schedule thanks to a
> growing and vibrant community of developers
>
> The Internet, March 22, 2011 - The Document Foundation announces
> LibreOffice 3.3.2, the second micro release of the free office suite for
> personal productivity, which further improves the stability of the
> software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May.
> The community of developers has been able to maintain the tight schedule
> thanks to the increase in the number of contributors, and to the fact
> that those that have started with easy hacks in September 2010 are now
> working at substantial features. In addition, they have almost completed
> the code cleaning process, getting rid of German comments and obsolete
> functionalities.
>
> "I have started hacking LibreOffice code on September 28, 2010, just a
> few hours after the announcement of the project, and I found a very
> welcoming community, where senior developers went out of their way to
> help newbies like me to become productive. After a few hours I submitted
> a small patch removing 5 or 6 lines of dead code... enough to get my
> feet wet and learn the workflow", says Norbert, a French developer
> living in the United States. "In a short time, I ended up removing the
> VOS library - deprecated for a decade - from LibreOffice, and finding
> and fixing various threading issues in the process".
>
> LibreOffice 3.3.2 is being released just one day after the closing of
> the first funding round launched by The Document Foundation to collect
> donations towards the 50,000-euro capital needed to establish a Stiftung
> in Germany. In five weeks, the community has donated twice as much, i.e.
> around 100,000 euros. All additional funds will be used for operating
> expenses such as infrastructure costs and registration of domain names
> and trademarks, as well as for community development expenses such as
> travel funding for TDF representatives speaking at conferences, booth
> fees for trade shows, and initial financing of merchandising items, DVDs
> and printed material.
>
> Italo Vignoli, a founder and a steering committee member of The Document
> Foundation, will be keynoting at Flourish 2011 in Chicago on Sunday,
> April 3, at 10:30AM, about getting independent from OpenOffice and
> Oracle, starting The Document Foundation, raising the capital and the
> first community budget, organizing developers and other work, and
> outlining a roadmap for future releases and features.
>
> The Document Foundation is at http://documentfoundation.org, while
> LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org. LibreOffice 3.3.2 is
> immediately available from the download page.
>
> *** About The Document Foundation
>
> The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of
> the LibreOffice Community into a new, open, independent, and
> meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent
> foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors,
> users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and
> transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on
> the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation
> within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
>
> *** Media contacts for TDF
>
> Florian Effenberger (Germany)
> Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: floeff at documentfoundation.org
> Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
> Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hallot at documentfoundation.org
> Charles H. Schulz (France)
> Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz at documentfoundation.org
> Italo Vignoli (Italy)
> Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli at documentfoundation.org
>
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