14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to promote the LibreOffice open-source and cross-platform office suite amongst businesses and individuals, informed us about the first meeting of the LibreOffice Indian community in 2016.
Italo Vignoli was happy to make the announcement on January 17, 2016, which was also the day of the meeting, which took place in Delhi, the capital of India, at Social Cops. There, the team discussed the activities for the entire year of 2016.
"The event is supported by the FUEL Project, one of the largest localization communities worlwide (India alone has a large number of native languages, and localization is one of the first issues to tackle for any free software community)," said Mr. Vignoli.
According to The Document Foundation, the Indian community is extremely important for the development process of the LibreOffice office suite, as the Republic of India is the second largest country in the world.
In India, there are 21 officially recognized regional languages, which include Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Konkani, Gujarati, Urdu, Marathi, Maithili, Kashmiri, Kannada, Assamese, Nepali, Santali, Manipuri, Dogri, Bodo, Sindhi, Odia, Malayalam, and Sanskrit.
In February 2016, The Document Foundation will release the next major version of the acclaimed office suite, LibreOffice 5.1, for which we've already written an in-depth article about all of its upcoming awesome features.