LibreOffice is a freely available and open source fully-featured office productivity suite created from The Document Foundation. It includes several applications to simplify tasks in an office working environment (creation of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases).

LibreOffice main features:

• Clean interface and feature-rich tools
• File compatibility
• Native open standard format (Open Document Format (ODF))
• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
• Cross platform
• Extensive language support

LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard, the Open Document Format (ODF). With LibreOffice, you have maximum control over your data and content – and you can export your work in many different formats including PDF.

LibreOffice includes the following components.

• Writer (word processor)
• Calc (spreadsheet)
• Impress (presentations)
• Draw (vector graphics)
• Base (database)
• Math (formula editor)

May is the month of LibreOffice, as a way to motivate community to contribute more and new people to join. There are a lot of things we can do to join LibreOffice community: whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org

LibreOffice community has people from all over the world, which can help each other to solve issues or answer questions. To contact the global community here are some links and informations: click here, or you can write in albanian language in Open Labs forum (forum.openlabs.cc) and some of our active members will come in help.

Ways how you can get involved with the community:

• Development (coding, New features, bugfixes)
• Documentation (FAQs, guidebooks, online help, video tutorials)
• Translations and localizations (through weblate)
• Quality assurance (Bugfixing and bugreporting)
• Marketing (Spreading the word, participate in events, organize events)
  etc.

If you would like to join and contribute with any of the above, we ate Open Labs will be more than happy to help and support you with what we know. You can start today, join our next activity. 🙂