One of the goals of The Document Foundation and the community it represents is to improve LibreOffice to make it even more competitive with other office suites. One of the tools to achieve this goal are tenders for the development of specific features, such as the implementation of OpenDocument Format version 1.3, the standard format used by LibreOffice and other applications.…
28 Feb 2022
Tender to clean up and further improve ODF conformance (#202202-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to clean up and further improve ODF conformance.
The default file format of LibreOffice is ODF, the Open Document Format. We have successfully tendered two projects on the current version 1.3 recently:
- The initial implementation of ODF 1.3 conformance
Details: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/05/tender-odf-1-3-conformance/
15 Feb 2022
Update on tender to implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP (#202104-01)
In April last year, The Document Foundation posted a tender to implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP in LibreOffice. Now we have an update from allotropia, the company that won the tender:
This is to report the recent activities we performed.
- We held a presentation during this year’s FOSDEM conference, giving an in-depth account of what we did, why we did it, and the problems we’ve met.
08 Dec 2021
Tender to optimize text layout performance for print and PDF export (#202112-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to optimize text layout performance for print and PDF export.
The text layout performance as currently implemented in LibreOffice has lots of issues. All over the codebase text shaping is done over and over again, although it consumes quite some compute cycles.…
13 Oct 2021
Tender to implement C++ accessibility tests (#202110-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to implement C++ accessibility tests.
The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version.
The current accessibility tests are rather incomplete and hard to maintain.…
04 Aug 2021
Tender to implement support for editing and creation of a Dynamic Diagram feature (#202108-02)
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to implement support for editing and creation of Dynamic Diagrams.
The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version.…