Fixing a LibreOffice bug in less than eight hours!

LibreOffice’s QA community works on identifying, testing and fixing bug reports from users around the world. Gabriele Ponzo, a long-time LibreOffice contributors and part of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee, tells us about how a bug was recently fixed in just under eight hours:

I’m particularly used to keyboard usage of LibreOffice, and thus I noticed that something I did really often wasn’t working anymore: searching backwards with the Find Toolbar.

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LibreOffice Conference 2021: How-to for participants

The online LibreOffice Conference 2021 starts tomorrow! Here’s how to take part…

Program

The schedule of the conference is available from here. Time zone is on the upper left: depending on your system settings, it usually is Europe/Berlin time (UTC+2).

There is an app available too – downloads from here:

Attending

Talks will be streamed on the website and on YouTube.…

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LibOCon Sponsor Interviews

LibreOffice Conference 2021, although virtual, could not happen without the support of sponsors, which are – in order of confirmation – the following five companies: Collabora, allotropia, LPI, Omnis Cloud and CarboneIO.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2021, we offered the two largest sponsors – Collabora and allotropia – the opportunity of providing their opinions about the office suite market segment and situation during an interview, which we have organized, produced and edited in-house using only free software (Jitsi to manage the interview, HandBrake to convert to MP4, VidCutter to trim the video, and ShotCut to add the intro and correct the audio).…

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