LibreOffice Conference 2019: Meet the Engineering Steering Committee

Who makes the big technical decisions in the LibreOffice project? In this video from our recent LibreOffice Conference in Spain, the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) introduces itself and provides an update on the latest updates:

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Six extra videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2019

Here’s the final set of presentations from the “Sala de Grados (Aulario IV)” room at the LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. We have many more videos from other rooms to come, of course! (Note: for better audio, use headphones.)

First up is “Neural Machine Translation for LibreOffice” with Thomas Viehmann:

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Next, “Weblate public test feedback round” with Christian Lohmaier:

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“Experiment for large-scale operation of LibreOffice Online, 2019 Edition” with Masaki Murakami:

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“LibreOffice Online new features” with Cor Nouws:

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“Online integration success stories” with Jan Holesovsky:

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And “10/20 Anniversary Planning” with Italo Vignoli:

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As mentioned, we have many more videos from the other rooms of the conference to come, so stay tuned!

October 12: International Day Against DRM 2019

Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people’s media viewing habits.

If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.

Defective by Design is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users’ perspective, and are therefore “defective by design”. This campaign will identify these “defective” products, and target them for elimination.

Nine more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2019

Yes, we’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. Many of these cover interoperability between LibreOffice and other office software. To start, here’s “Sharing is caring” with Marina Latini:

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“TDF community and membership: how to get in” with Gabriele Ponzo:

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“LibreOffice community and the SDG” with Leo Moons:

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“Interoperability as core feature” with Gábor Kelemen:

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“Interoperable office collaboration” with Svante Schubert:

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“Interoperability improvements in the last year” with Mike Kaganski:

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“Watermarking: a secure way to share documents” with Mert Tümer:

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And “Interoperability of Charts between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office” with Balázs Varga:

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10 more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2019

We’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. First up, “Generating ODF reports on server side” with Jeff Huang:

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Then “How best to migrate to LibreOffice” with Andras Timar:

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“Grow out of nothing” with Wen-Ke Huang:

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“Agile LibreOffice: how not to lead an open source project” with Björn Michaelsen:

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“Recruiting is hard, let’s go shopping” with Ilmari Lauhakangas:

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“TDF’s Membership Committee: how does it work” with Gabriele Ponzo:

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“Handling TDF membership applications with the mcm-script” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:

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“LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 Tokyo: what we achieved, and what’s next” with Naruhiko Ogasawara, Shinji Enoki and Jun Nogata:

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“Making LibreOffice a lifesaver for dying languages in Asia” with Kuan-Ting Lin and Xiao-Wu Wang:

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And finally, “The challenge of a regional LibreOffice Conference” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:

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More videos still to come!