Bjoern Michaelsen is on the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation. We talked to him at the recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome about the challenges of growing a community. Also, we look ahead to some new ideas for hackfests.
World Usability day – and making LibreOffice’s UX shine
Today is World Usability Day, beginning events around the world that “bring together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen, and government groups for our common objective: to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.”
Starting today, and over the next few days, there will be
Month of LibreOffice, November 2017: First week’s results
On the 1st of November we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions from our worldwide community. Everyone who helps out with the project gets a chance to win a cool sticker. So, one week in, how are we doing?
Well, so far 137 stickers
Job Search for a Development Mentor (#201711-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be
a Development Mentor
to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following:
- Self-starting, remote working experience
- Experience contributing to FLOSS communities
- Excellent communication skills, with enthusiasm for mentoring
- Coding experience
Event reports: LibreOffice in Cyprus and Czech Republic
Throughout the year, LibreOffice community members attend events around the world, helping to promote free software and open standards. We’re really grateful for their work! Today we have a couple of reports from recent events – and we start with Muhammet Kara who has been busy in Cyprus:
I attended the Free Software and Linux Seminar
LibreOffice Conference 2017: Group photos
We’ve had some requests to share the group photos from the recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome, so here they are! (These are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.)
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