Crowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations!
LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations.
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This feature is important in eLearning: in contrast to video recordings, audio recordings are stored per slide, and can be adjusted to match the individual pace of the presentation. This is particularly suitable in school, academic as well as corporate environments to make learning content and product presentations more interactive.
So, how can we get this feature in LibreOffice? Well, the CH Open association, which has been promoting open systems and standards in the Swiss ICT landscape for over 40 years, is organising a crowdfunding campaign to implement the feature. The project is estimated to cost €62,000 in total – with various milestones along the way.
Hi Mike,
Why would features like this not be funded from the donations that are collected from LibreOffice by the Document Foundation? If I am not mistaken isn’t there over €1 Million that is not being used?
Kind regards
Many features are funded from donations and you can check some history from here, for example: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/category/tenders/
Yes, so why not this one? If it’s being promoted for users to donate why don’t TDF pay or make a substantial donation from the monies collected.