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LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: Localisation, Writer, Calc, Sparklines, Web Assembly and more

Check out this next batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

State of Korea in LibreOffice and promoting future plans, with DaeHyun Sung

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Using resolution independent positions for writer’s screen-rendering of text, with Caolán McNamara

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Content controls in Writer, with Miklos Vajna

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Improving Structured Document Text (SDT) support in Writer, with Vasily Melenchuk

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Improving LibreOffice Calc, with Balázs Varga

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Sparklines and chart data tables – new features in Calc, with Tomaž Vajngerl

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Reducing Build Time (2022), with Luboš Luňák

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News from the WASM front – Calc and headless operations, with Thorsten Behrens and Balázs Varga

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Another batch of videos from LibreOffice Conference 2022: Features, API, extensions, Jenkins and continuous integration (CI)

More talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Check out the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

Using graph theory, let’s look at the addition, modification, and removal of features in all versions of LibreOffice, with Koji Annoura

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Designing better API, with Luboš Luňák

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Maintaining a complex OpenOffice/LibreOffice Java extension over 15 year, with Thorsten Behrens and Björn Ranft

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Jenkins Goes for a Kill, with Stephan Bergmann

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LibreOffice continuous integration improvements and suggestions, with Thorsten Behrens

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New Liaison role for the Native Language Communities

Sophie Gautier writes…

Hi all,

We are launching a new role in the Native Language Communities. This role aims to improve the communication between the global projects, The Document Foundation and the local communities.

This communication should be directed in two ways: keep local communities informed on what is happening internationally, and keep the international community informed of what is achieved by the local communities.

My hope is also that TDF will be able to bring more help, if it is informed of the achievements, difficulties, wishes and needs locally.

The role is called Liaison and should be carried by one volunteer chosen by the local community, or self represented if there is no local community yet.

To know more about Liaison, please read this page. This is a first process that I’d like to enhance with the help of the Liaison members.

To discuss about the role and (in the future) with other Liaison members, join our discussion forum.

Don’t be shy, introduce yourself and tell us all 😄

The Document Foundation provides LibreOffice on the Microsoft Store

Berlin, October 20, 2022 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice for Windows on the Microsoft Store, to support end users who want to get their desktop software from Microsoft’s own sales channel, from this link: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/libreoffice/9PB80DCFP83W

TDF will charge a convenience fee of €4.59, which will be invested to further support development of the LibreOffice project.

The announcement reflects the project’s new marketing strategy: The Document Foundation is focused on the release of the Community version, while ecosystem companies are focused on value-added long-term supported versions targeted at enterprises. The distinction has the objective of educating organizations to support the FOSS project by choosing the LibreOffice version best suited for their needs instead of the Community version generously supported by volunteers.

“We are grateful to allotropia for having supported LibreOffice on the Microsoft Store so far”, said Mike Saunders, LibreOffice Marketing at The Document Foundation. “Our objective is to fulfill the needs of individuals and enterprises in a better way, although we know that the positive effects of the new strategy will be visible only in the long term. Educating enterprises about FOSS is not a trivial task, especially when you want to remain loyal to free software principles”.

The Document Foundation will continue to provide LibreOffice for Windows free of charge from the LibreOffice website (https://www.libreoffice.org/download), which is the recommended source for all individual users, while enterprises should look at the following web page: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/ for the versions best suited to their deployment needs.

More videos from LibreOffice Conference 2022: Interoperability, test coverage, language communities, online…

Here’s another batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Check out the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

Chasing an Interoperability Bug in Impress, with Sarper Akdemir

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Test coverage in LibreOffice, with Xisco Fauli

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Five things we could do to help language communities flourish, with Eyal Rozenberg

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State of interoperability – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with Gabor Kelemen

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The ongoing story of Online, with Michael Meeks

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Six videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2022

We’ve uploaded some more talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Check out the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist. Thanks to user Tex2002ans on Reddit for the summaries below!

 

State of the Project, with Italo Vignoli

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Scraping the crashreport website, with Xisco Fauli

The crash report server was started in 2016 (LibreOffice 5.2). Problems: a lot of clicking around; website super slow; use of backslashes in Windows traces; crashes sorted by date->newest in last page

So, Xisco made a script that goes through all the crash reports and generates better/easier-to-read info: crashreportScraper.py – it generates a nice CSV with all information compiled.

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Let’s calculate with Math using MathType and Mathematica, with Koji Annoura

Using LibreOffice Math in order to help calculations.

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coverity/ossfuzz/crashtesting, with Caolán McNamara

Preemptively fixing bugs and updating code quality with Coverity. Also describes mass checking the crash testing server and all documents in Bugzilla for latest issues.

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Please anonymize my document! With Eyal Rozenberg

Many people have bug reports, but can’t attach their documents because: it’s personal; it’s a draft. (Business contract, etc.); or under obligation not to disclose. (Working for big corporation, etc.)

Work needs to begin on creating a tool that can replace text/images with anonymized versions, allowing people to submit more documents to their bugs. (Making it easier to reproduce/fix.)

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The Bookshelf and the Web Output, with Olivier Hallot

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