[tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available

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@documentfoundation.org
Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org
Charles H. Schulz (France)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org
Italo Vignoli (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org

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