LibreOffice Base is the database component of the suite, and hasn’t seen a lot of development activity in recent years. So The Document Foundation – the non-profit behind the software – wants to change that! Following Neil Roberts, we now have a second new developer, Vissarion Fisikopoulos, so let’s hear from him…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
Hi everyone, I’m Vissarion, a software engineer and researcher based in Athens, Greece, and I’m very happy to have joined The Document Foundation to work on LibreOffice Base. My background combines scientific computing, databases, and open-source development, and I’ve been a long term contributor to several open source projects like MySQL, Boost C++ libraries and GeomScale. I am active in open source communities, and I speak regularly about open source development at conferences such as FOSDEM.
What’s your new role at TDF, and what will you be working on?
My new role at TDF is to work on LibreOffice Base and databases more broadly, with a focus on Base itself and the ways database functionality connects with the rest of LibreOffice.
In practice, that means working mostly in C++, fixing bugs, improving code quality, and helping implement features across Base’s frontend and backend.
How can all users of LibreOffice help you in this work?
Users can help a lot in this work!
Clear bug reports, reproducible test cases, feedback on real-world Base workflows, and testing development versions are all extremely valuable, because they help turn vague problems into issues that can actually be fixed.
And beyond that, contributions through QA, documentation, translations, and newcomer-friendly developer tasks all help strengthen the project as a whole.
So if you use LibreOffice Base, or if you care about databases and open source office software in general, your feedback and participation can genuinely help to shape the work ahead.
Thanks Vissarion – we’re looking forward to your work!