02 Sep 2020

Build your skills – join our online hackfest during the LibreOffice conference!

Posted in Conference, Design, Development, Documentation, LibreOffice, QA By Ilmari Lauhakangas On September 2, 2020

Who makes LibreOffice? How can you – as a user – get involved in the community? And what can you contribute to the project? Well, we’ll answer all of these questions, and more, in an upcoming online “hackfest” during the LibreOffice conference. This is a virtual event where the world’s foremost LibreOffice experts will be at hand, to answer your questions about contributing to the project. You can see how they work and “how the sausage is made”, as they say!

There are many ways to help out:

  • Designing the user interface
  • Improving the features and functionality with C++ programming
  • Updating the documentation
  • Translating the app and website
  • Starting cool marketing campaigns
  • Confirming bug reports from other users

And much more. By joining a well-known and well-established FOSS project like LibreOffice, you can build up your skillset for future career options. And also meet new people and have fun!

So, do you have a question about contributing? If so, please send your questions to ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org by 27 September 2020.

A panel of experts will convene to present on your questions and topics. Everyone is welcome to join and ask further questions. In the case that your spontaneous questions render the experts speechless, answers will be provided after the event. The duration of the event is one hour.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Comments

  1. By Marian Kemp

    I hope this is the right place to give user feedback.

    I’ve used LIbreOffice for at least five years and it’s good in lots of ways. But it could be improved!!!

    I have big frustration with the program. The Help button on the page is of NO help whatever. It tell you ABOUT the program, but never how to do it! You need a detailed index with thorough, simple straightforward instructions on “how to do it”. Start with just that, for the end user who just want to use the system and then get on with the next job in life.

    There is a place for elaborate explanations of how the system works and why. But your first obligation, I think, is to give the user clear, simple instructions on how to carry out any function. Start there. Once that is in place, THEN go on to the fancy explanations.

    I am fed up and disillusioned with trying to figure out the un-figure-out-able! I am not a techie and I just want to USE the program. Once I’ve mastered it, I MAY then go on to learning ABOUT it. Right now, I just want & need to know how to DO it!

    You’ve got a good program but it could be much better. I Hope this feedback is useful, and thank you for listening.