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More LibreOffice Conference 2016 videos online

Here’s the latest batch of videos we’ve uploaded from the LibreOffice Conference in Brno. Enjoy the presentations – there’s something for everyone!

There are still more videos to come, so keep an eye on the blog and we’ll post updates soon!

LibreOffice contributor interview: Leif Lodahl

With the Month of LibreOffice nearly over (stay tuned for a wrap-up!) we now return to our regular interviews with contributors to the project. This week it’s the turn of Leif Lodahl, who helps out with localization…

 

What do you do in the LibreOffice project?

I am the lead of the Danish localization team, and I live and work in the Copenhagen Area in Denmark. You can find my LibreOffice contributions and social media accounts here:

I live with my wife Marianne (with whom I have just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary) in the suburbs to Copenhagen. My two sons are both adults and have left our home.

 

Do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just contribute in your spare time?

Until September 1st I was working as project manager and business developer in the company Magenta. From September 1st I’m working as IT architect at City of Ballerup (Ballerup Municipality). My work for (and with) LibreOffice has, until recently, been both professional and in my spare time.

 

How did you get involved with LibreOffice?

Many years ago, when OpenOffice.org was at version 1.1.0, I accidentally found the project and complained about the machine-translated graphical user interface (GUI). I then started improving the GUI and when Sun Microsystems was preparing OpenOffice.org 2.0 we managed to translate both the GUI and the Help content.

 

What areas of the project do you normally work on?

I’m primarily working as the country and language lead, but have also been involved in LibreOffice as member of the Membership Committee. As one of the founding members I have been with The Document Foundation from the beginning.

Over the years I have been involved in implementation projects in various public organizations in Denmark, and back in 2006 I was engaged in the public and political discussions in Denmark about open standards.

In 2015 I was in charge of organizing the LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus, Denmark.

 

What was your initial experience of contributing to LibreOffice like?

Back in the OpenOffice.org days I found that contributing to the project by translating was pretty easy and I could see my own contributions in later releases, which was very encouraging.

 

What do you do in your spare time?

“Run, Forrest, Run.” I usually run at least twice a week. Not because of the completion – just for the health benefits. Also, once a week I have the pleasure of taking care of a six year-old child with both physical and mental disabilities.

 

Thanks Leif! And to all blog readers: if you want to improve the localization of LibreOffice in your language or location, you can get involved here. Thanks in advance for your contributions!

Final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016

We’re now into the final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016! So far, 210 badges have been awarded – so 210 members of the LibreOffice community have contributed in the last 23 days. Fantastic work, everyone!

If your name isn’t there, you still have a chance to earn a shiny badge to put on your blog or social media – and tell the world about open source and digital freedom. Here are some quick ways to get a badge:

Or if you have some extra time to spare and want to get more involved:

So pick a task and grab a badge while you can!

LibreOffice Conference 2016: First videos online

Here at The Document Foundation we’ve been really busy since the LibreOffice Conference in September, running our Community Weeks and the Month of LibreOffice. But finally we’ve started putting videos online from presentations at the conference.

Don’t miss this opening presentation, the State of the Project, and then scroll down for more talks and demos.

 

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We’ll be adding more videos next week, so stay tuned to the blog and subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates!

Second ever LibreOffice Hackfest in Italy, with 15 participants

Development mentor Jan Iversen writes:

“Italy has a very big LibreOffice community but with only a few developers, so when LibreItalia had its yearly conference this weekend, we tried to start changing the situation. The second hackfest in Italy was only around four hours – but the time was well spent.

After a short introduction from Marina (Chairwoman of The Document Foundation) our development mentor gave a presentation, explaining how everybody can help LibreOffice. Slides were in Italian, the talk was in English, and comments were in Spanish.

There were in total 15 people including power users, contributors, source code committers and certified developers – a broad range to address. There was less interest in getting a build done, and much more interest in two other aspects:

  • How can we grow a local development community, ranging from people helping QA to “hard-core” developers?
  • The ladder to enter development is too high, so what can we do do make development attractive for new people?

Jan presented our toolbox, which is actually quite extensive. Opengrok surprised everybody. None of the fast developer notebooks could match the fast search times. A search for “jani” took 15ms and was called cheating, so we did another search for “Ponzo” which took just 16ms.

The online editing feature in Gerrit made even the skilled developers look up. We had a longer discussion about when not to use this feature, but everybody saw the clear advantage.

In the end, there was only one question: when do we have a full two-day Hackfest? Osvaldo promised to arrange one in his University during the first quarter of 2017.

No visit to Italy is complete without pizza. LibreItalia arranged dinner in a nice pizza restaurant (sorry, not the typical European style, but real pizza!). It was amazing to feel and see, how big the hospitality is there, and how eager people were to learn.

So in all, a big thank you to LibreItalia for giving me this chance to promote developers. I am sure it will not be last time I visit Italy.”

The Month of LibreOffice, November 2016: One week in

Last week we started a new Month of LibreOffice, where contributors to the project can win badges for their work. Every bit of help, whether in coding, documentation, QA, translations or user support, is really appreciated! So far we’ve awarded 89 badges across various teams.

Want to get one for yourself? Just see this page for how to get involved, and then have your name alongside a badge you can use on your blog, social media, or indeed anywhere else you want to show it off!

Meanwhile, at the moment only two barnstars have been awarded – so let’s bump that number up! If there’s anyone in the LibreOffice community you want to thank for their efforts, just email barnstars@libreoffice.org with their name and what they did, and we’ll add them to the page. So get in touch!

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