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2026-08-28 08:38:43 GMT

How LibreOffice is funded
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/28/how-libreoffice-is-funded/
#libreoffice

2026-08-28 08:32:39 GMT

Why ODF is the only document format compatible with digital sovereignty
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/27/why-odf-is-the-only-document-format-compatible-with-digital-sovereignty/
#odf

2026-08-18 08:31:30 GMT

Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform — and What That Actually Means
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/18/why-digital-sovereignty-requires-an-open-document-platform/
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2026-08-12 09:59:38 GMT

Yes, it was not easy to arrange a solar eclipse too celebrate my 72nd birthday, but at the end I managed to have a close to total one in the late afternoon. Lobby at its best.

2026-07-31 12:47:17 GMT

Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling?
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/31/why-ooxml-based-suites-handle-odf-badly/
#libreoffice #odf
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2026-07-30 16:53:38 GMT

Please participate in a survey about LibreOffice Base
In the past we run several surveys to better understand the use cases for Calc, Impress, Draw, and Writer templates. And since TDF hired a developer for Base it’s time to investigate this module.
We collected a couple of questions that address not only actual users of LibreOffice Base but also people who use other tools or no database at all.
So please participate at https://survey.documentfoundation.org/493555.
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/07/30/please-participate-in-a-survey-about-libreoffice-base/
#LibreOffice
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2026-07-29 11:30:17 GMT

LibreOffice, yours for a lifetime
On 13 October 2026, Microsoft ends support for Office 2021. No more security updates, no more fixes, no more assurances.
LibreOffice has no end-of-support date, because there is no vendor with the power to declare one. When a release cycle closes, the next one is already available, free, to everyone — not to those who renewed.
Support ends on a date someone else chooses. Ownership does not end at all.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/29/libreoffice-yours-for-a-lifetime/
#libreoffice #tdforg
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2026-07-28 13:15:54 GMT

What is Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away.
That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/
#Community #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards

2026-07-24 07:45:35 GMT

LibreOffice 26.2.5 is available for download
Berlin, 23 July 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.5, the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers and QA engineers.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/24/libreoffice-26-2-5/
#libreoffice #tdforg
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2026-07-21 05:26:40 GMT

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@nprofile…xdn2 @nprofile…t9xp I commenti senza senso mi stimolano, fino a quando continueranno io continuerò a scrivere, e a cercare nuovi punti di vista per cercare di coinvolgere le persone dotate di intelletto, che purtroppo sono una specie in via di estinzione.

2026-07-20 10:06:32 GMT

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@nprofile…xdn2 @nprofile…t9xp
Lo so, sono un po' ripetitivo, ma fino a quando il problema verrà sottovalutato, o ignorato - e il sottoscritto sbeffeggiato come un vecchio rincoglionito che ripete sempre le stesse cose - continuerò a tornare sull'argomento.

2026-07-10 12:56:28 GMT

What We Owe Each Other, in Millimetres and Volts
A standard is a public agreement about how things should fit together. Two words in that sentence carry the weight: public and agreement. Public, because the rules are written down and anyone can read them. Agreement, because nobody imposes them alone; they are negotiated between parties who accept that the shared space is more valuable than any individual advantage within it.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/10/what-we-owe-each-other/
@libreoffice @odf @tdforg
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2026-07-03 09:54:58 GMT

The non technical dependency layers: the Calendar and the Invoice
A vendor’s calendar will always move. A vendor’s prices will always rise. These are not scandals, they are simply what it means to be governed by someone else’s strategy. The only question that matters is whether you are free to walk away when they do.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/03/the-calendar-and-the-invoice/
@libreoffice @odf @tdforg
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2026-06-30 08:26:30 GMT

The invisible architecture of lock-in: the layering of dependencies
A sophisticated mechanism by which proprietary technology ecosystems maintain their grip on users and institutions, even when those users and institutions believe they are making free choices, using open standards, and building independent digital infrastructure. It does not work through force, but through a subtler and more durable strategy: the layering of dependencies.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/30/the-invisible-architecture-of-lock-in/
@libreoffice @odf @tdforg
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2026-06-19 06:34:42 GMT

The Document Foundation: the name that pointed at the right thing, 16 years before
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/19/tdf-the-name/
@tdforg @libreoffice

2026-06-11 15:14:39 GMT

We proudly belong to the 0.01% who consciously choose free operating systems and software that are not only convenient, but also much safer. We refuse to delegate governance of our digital environment to others.
This is despite comments from people who point out that 99.99% of the world’s population choose the convenience of Microsoft’s handcuffs over the joy of the daily discovery of digital freedom.
https://italovignoli.substack.com/p/the-irony-of-9999
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2026-06-11 06:36:39 GMT

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF
A welcome commitment to open standards — and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Office’s native document format.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/11/euro-office-open-standards-and-native-odf/
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2026-06-08 07:05:30 GMT

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
#digitalsovereignty #libreoffice #odf
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2026-06-07 18:46:16 GMT

Redmond, you have a problem
https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/redmond-you-have-a-problem?r=1va4e&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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2026-06-05 11:28:02 GMT

The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.4
Berlin, 5 June 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers and QA engineers.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/05/tdf-releases-libreoffice-26-2-4/
@libreoffice @tdforg
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2026-06-02 09:23:16 GMT

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty
When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.
OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/
#odf #ooxml
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2026-06-01 12:37:49 GMT

Meet the team at The Document Foundation
LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world, working on code, documentation, QA, translations, marketing, infrastructure and much more. Coordinating the project’s activities is the team at The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Let’s see what the team members do.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/01/meet-the-team-at-the-document-foundation/
#libreoffice #tdforg
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2026-06-01 08:19:12 GMT

Microsoft Knew It
A 2004 document which provides some interesting background to the OOXML story.
https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/microsoft-knew-it?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1va4e
#odf #ooxml #lock-in

2026-05-30 08:59:41 GMT

Web and Mobile Development Strategy Proposal
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/30/web-and-mobile-development-strategy-proposal/
#libreoffice
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2026-05-28 09:06:23 GMT

ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed
Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far more useful: to make the structural problem with the standard document format clear to those who have to live with it: public officials, educators, and above all, individual citizens.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/28/odf-vs-ooxml-an-issue-that-should-never-have-existed/
#odf #opendocumentformat
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2026-05-19 12:52:34 GMT

A reader objected to two words in my recent piece on documents as software (https://lnkd.in/dPBnUxZ6). Here is what the objection taught me about the structure of adversarial reading in FOSS advocacy, and why most communications professionals never learn to see it: The Disproportion Test: a Reflection on Instrumental Criticisms of Advocacy (https://lnkd.in/dzNU6WSK).
#opendocumentformat #odf #foss #advocacy
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2026-05-15 15:55:51 GMT

There is no digital sovereignty without ODF
Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor
Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format is proprietary the vendor controls it, even when the file sits on the user’s own hard drive.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
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2026-05-14 20:08:58 GMT

The Disproportion Test: a Reflection on Instrumental Criticisms of Advocacy
https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/the-disproportion-test-a-reflection?r=1va4e&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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2026-05-12 11:20:44 GMT

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.8.7
2026-05-12Italo Vignoli
The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.8 family, available for download at https://www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.8.x should update to LibreOffice 26.2.x as LibreOffice 25.8.x end of life will be on June 12, and after that date the software will not receive additional security updates.
@nprofile…e762 #libreoffice
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2026-05-08 12:17:56 GMT

Twenty Years On, ODF Is Still the Only Open Standard for Office Documents, and the Only One Governments Can Trust
Twenty years ago, the Open Document Format cleared its Draft International Standard ballot at ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 with unanimous approval. Two decades later, ODF remains what it was on the day of its ratification: the only open, vendor-neutral, freely implementable international standard for office documents in existence.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/08/twenty-years-odf-as-iso/
#odf #libreoffice #tdforg
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2026-05-05 18:31:22 GMT

A TURNING POINT
On Sunday 19 April, at around 9 pm, a blood clot broke away from the popliteal artery behind my ailing left knee and travelled up to the pulmonary artery, where it lodged between the left and right pulmonary arteries, causing a pulmonary embolism.
https://italovignoli.substack.com/p/a-turning-point
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2026-05-05 12:29:47 GMT

Thank you, on behalf of ODF
To the funders, the members of the technical committee and the users: what is happening today is a belated public recognition of the work you have carried out in silence, supporting ODF for twenty years.
You are the vanguard that has proven the validity of a concept, and that has made it possible for those politicians who realised that your example was the one to follow to make their case.
All of this deserves recognition. Thank you.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/05/thank-you-on-behalf-of-odf/
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2026-04-19 11:14:02 GMT

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@nprofile…tm2n I used Outlook only for three hours, and it blew up my PC because it was unable to manage my 11 email addresses, handled without a glitch by old Eudora.

2026-04-19 07:36:22 GMT

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sjvn1_on-earth-or-in-space-outlook-stays-the-same-share-7448409539693023233-yZHW?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAAAAL5TUBPimzP87lU161XjFkfpKPNGUp1KM&utm_campaign=share_via
Outlook is the worst piece of software ever written by a living amount of human cells (would not call the author of such a disgusting amount of bits a human being)

2026-04-16 07:03:51 GMT

A Commit Named After a Conversation
My Way of Being a Good Enough Ancestor
https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/a-commit-named-after-a-conversation?r=1va4e&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#italovignoli #audreytang #taiwan #libreoffice #ods #ethercalc #goodenoughancestor
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2026-04-09 09:36:05 GMT

LibreOffice State of the Project (April 2025 – March 2026)
We are releasing the updated State of the Project Slide Deck, based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository.
We have started to publish these slide decks in January 2026, to provide a transparent overview about the progress of the project through some of the most significant measures of development, downloads and donations data collected by the marketing team at TDF.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/09/libreoffice-state-of-the-project/
@libreoffice
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2026-04-02 13:11:41 GMT

Document formats: a mystery to many
A licence tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data.
ODF has to be native, default, and by design.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/02/document-formats-a-mystery-to-many/
@libreoffice #odf

2026-04-01 08:36:23 GMT

Euro-Office: sovereign in name only, or in reality too?
The announcement of the Euro-Office is welcome news. The coalition is credible, the governance is sound and the timing is perfect. Europe needs office software, and I am delighted to see such significant players allocating resources to make it happen.
However, we have a question. It is not meant to be hostile, but it is the only question that matters.
What is the native document format of Euro-Office?
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/euro-office/
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2026-03-31 11:37:41 GMT

Open Letter to European Citizens
The door to digital sovereignty is open, please come in
We ask European citizens, and through them those who govern European countries, to understand one important thing: the door to digital sovereignty does not open simply by choosing different software, but by understanding what sovereignty actually entails.
It requires open document formats, open fonts, continuity of expertise, and honesty about what "open" means.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/31/open-letter-to-european-citizens/
@libreoffice #odf
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2026-03-27 11:48:33 GMT

ODF is the future, OOXML is the past
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/
#odf #libreoffice
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2026-03-24 20:27:58 GMT

If you are a government official, a digital policy advisor, the CIO of a public administration, or a minister responsible for digital transformation in any EU country, this post is for you.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/

2026-03-10 12:48:05 GMT

A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/10/important-odf-template-added-to-cra-guidance-feedback/
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
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2026-02-27 14:03:31 GMT

ODF non è l'unico vantaggio di LibreOffice rispetto al software proprietario, ovvero a Microsoft 365, WPS Office e OnlyOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/27/odf-is-just-the-first-of-lo-advantages/
Chi preferisce il software proprietario per il formato dei documenti o l'interfaccia utente, ammetta candidamente di essere un sostenitore della sudditanza digitale, e di rinunciare per sempre al controllo sui propri contenuti.
Siete in buona compagnia, la maggior parte dei politici italiani è dalla vostra parte.
Io no.

2026-02-24 13:07:37 GMT

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Sono il presidente onorario di LibreItalia, ma non il presidente in carica, che è Enio Gemmo
@nprofile…wksy @nprofile…e762 @nprofile…8nxt @nprofile…0s95

2026-02-24 13:01:23 GMT

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@nprofile…wksy @nprofile…e762 @nprofile…8nxt @nprofile…0s95

2026-02-19 16:57:14 GMT

LibreOffice 25.8.5, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, has landed at https://www.libreoffice.org/download.
English manuals for the LibreOffice 25.8 family can be downloaded from books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can access technical support via mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice forum: ask.libreoffice.org/.
LibreOffice enterprise and individual users can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.
@libreoffice
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2026-02-18 14:05:06 GMT

LibreOffice Named a 2026 “Best Value” Leader by Capterra
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-named-a-2026-best-value-leader-by-capterra/
@nprofile…e762
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2026-02-04 16:25:23 GMT

OpenPolis: i dati a supporto della ricerca sulle competenze digitali nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale in formato XLS (!!!!!), a dimostrazione di una totale incompetenza. Ma non basta, dopo averglielo fatto notare in modo educato e costruttivo, e aver offerto il mio aiuto gratuito, mi hanno risposto che non possono fare altrimenti perché gli utenti hanno problemi con altri formati (usano tutti PC ante 2008?).
https://www.openpolis.it/la-sfida-delle-competenze-digitali-nellera-dellia/
Roba da non credere

2025-12-05 11:37:28 GMT

La LibreOffice Conference, l'incontro annuale della comunità che sviluppa e promuove l'unica suite per ufficio veramente libera e open source, che supporta nativamente l'unico formato dei documenti aperto e standard, sarà a Pordenone, all'interno del campus universitario. E' una grande occasione per la comunità italiana per conoscere meglio l'unico software che permette agli utenti di avere un controllo completo sui propri contenuti senza l'ingerenza di una Big Tech. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/05/libreoffice-conference-2026-and-2027/

2025-12-03 15:35:26 GMT

ODF 1.4 is an OASIS standard, while we are waiting for the announcement of ODF 1.3 as ISO/IEC 26300:2025 standard. These are very important news for the only open document format available to users, to protect their IP and allow them to share contents in a transparent way without being controlled by Microsoft, as it should be is authorities were true authorities instead of being puppets in the hands of lobbyists. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/03/tdf-announces-odf-v14-as-oasis-standard/
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2025-10-09 12:17:08 GMT

LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Read the blog post: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/09/release-of-libreoffice-25-8-2/ @nprofile…95wg

2025-06-22 18:34:29 GMT

Ringrazio tutti quelli che hanno citato le mie presentazioni al @nprofile…9r7y, è stato un evento interessante, ma c'è ancora tanto da fare