I started working for Document Foundation in November. I live and work in southern Spain, Malaga, a nice warm place. I wrote my first program in 1975, so I have been active in the pre-unix, pre-linux, pre-pc worlds, and have been involved in developing drivers, micro kernels and compilers. I retired from my international companies in 2011, dedicating time to open source.…
Month: November 2015
LibreOffice getting ready for the next 1,000 hackers
Berlin, November 23, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces a renewed effort to grow the developers community beyond the threshold of 1,000 hackers reached in October 2015 (source: OpenHub), with the addition of Jan Iversen – a senior developer with a passion for mentoring, and a long experience at Apache Software Foundation – to the team.…
LibreOffice wins two open source awards at PortalProgramas
LibreOffice has won two different awards at PortalProgramas.Com, for the following categories:
- Mayor potencial de crecimiento (best growth potential), because it is regularly updated and is open to new features and applications;
- Esencial para empresas (essential for enterprises), because it covers all enterprise office automation needs without adding license costs.
Behind the scenes at TDF: Karl Morten Ramberg, marketing intern
I am working as marketing intern since October, living and working out of Lillehammer, Norway. I have been working with open source software and projects since around the year 2000. Before that I was a development manager for ERP software for some years. I have also been heavily involved in using office suites as front ends to ERP and other systems both in private industry and the public sector.…
Second bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.1
Berlin, November 17, 2015 – Quality Assurance activity on LibreOffice 5.1 – planned for release in early February – is making progress with the second bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 days, from December 4 to December 6, 2015, and will be focused on the beta of LibreOffice 5.1.…
FOSDEM Devroom Call for Papers
FOSDEM 16 will be held at the ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday, January 30, and Sunday, January 31, 2016.
Open document editors are coming again to FOSDEM with a shared devroom which gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related developments and innovations. The devroom is jointly organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice.…