Developer interview: Vajna Miklos

The next in the series of our interviews with LibreOffice contributors features Miklos, who was one of our successful Google Summer of Code 2010 student. He worked on rewriting and improving the RTF export filter and now he agreed to take the risk to answer our questions.

Programming is about people: so please ! tell us a bit about yourself:

Hi, I’m Miklos Vajna, you can usually find me as vmiklos on the Freenode IRC network.

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LibreOffice development extends to Brazil

LibreOffice development extends to Brazil

The Internet, December 6, 2010 – The Document Foundation welcomes the new BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software, a software development project recently announced by BrOffice, Itaipu Binacional and the Itaipu Technological Park Foundation. The main software lab, based in Foz do Iguacu, will contribute to the development of LibreOffice (BrOffice in Brazil), and other free software projects.…

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Developer Interview: Joseph Powers

We are grateful to our next interviewee whom has contributed a lot to cleaning up the code-base, improving the efficiency of icon theming, and getting stuck into making LibreOffice something more beautiful. Anyhow without further fuss:

Programming is about people: so please ! tell us a bit about yourself:

I’m Joseph Powers, JoeP on IRC, based on the American West Coast in Las Vegas, in my very early fourties, married to a wonderful woman: Abelita – a beautiful Philipina lady.

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Accessibility mailing list created

Due to user’s demand, we now have created an accessibility mailing list, for users to discuss and developers to improve. If you are interested, have a look at

accessibility@libreoffice.org: Accessibility discussions on LibreOffice
Subscription: accessibility+subscribe@libreoffice.org
Digest subscription: accessibility+subscribe-digest@libreoffice.org
Archives: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/accessibility/
Mail-Archive.com: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessibility@libreoffice.org/

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