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LibreOffice Conference 2022: Impressions from an attendee (and speaker!)

Regina Henschel writes:

Since the LibreOffice Conference 2022 was a “hybrid” conference, I decided to travel to Milan. These were exciting days. I gave two presentations: “Introduction to the ‘Limo Stretch’ feature of shapes” and “Creating ‘fontwork’ geometries beyond the predefined shapes”. The first one is addressed at developers, whereas the second one is suitable for everyone. You find the slides and additional material here and here. Videos of my talks are below.

It was important for me to gain insights into other areas. The Community Meetings on Wednesday introduced me to the problems that LibreOffice communities have in several regions of the world, along with solutions and success stories from others. During the conference, I heard a lot about language-specific aspects of LibreOffice. Do you have ever think about the way a piece of text in Arabic is justified? Or noticed what special problems occur with writing directions top-to-bottom and then right-to-left as used in Japanese?

Last but not least, I enjoyed personally meeting community members. Having lunch together and the wonderful pasta community dinner were opportunities to get to know each other, beyond code review, Bugzilla and mailing lists. I hope to meet you all again at next LibreOffice Conference.

Thanks to Regina for attending and giving her presentations! And, of course, all her work in our community 😊 Here are videos of her talks at the conference:

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LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • Throughout October, we edited and uploaded videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2022. So far, there are 36 videos from talks and presentations – with more to come! Here’s the playlist:

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  • Our documentation team released an updated edition of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 (revision 1) with new contents on sparklines and conditional formatting. Typos and last minute mistakes and formatting were also fixed in this release. Great work!

  • Meanwhile, we released LibreOffice 7.4.2, the second minor update to the 7.4 branch. All users are recommended to update, for maximum reliability and security.

  • Dominique Welt, Ph.D. Candidate and instructor at McGill University, told us about a presentation: “Using LibreOffice Base to Teach Relational Database Management”.

  • On October 20, TDF announced 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. There’s a convenience fee of €4.59, which will be invested to further support development of the LibreOffice project. But the suite will remain free of charge to download from the main website.

  • Finally, we launched a new “Liason” 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. If you’re interested, we look forward to hearing from you 😊

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!

LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: DaaS, ScriptForge, FontWork, OpenDocument, Writer…

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

 

An introduction to the “Documents as a Service” project, with Marco Marinello

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Is ScriptForge really a scam? With Jean-Pierre Ledure

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Introduction to the feature “limo-stretch” of shapes, with Regina Henschel

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Creating “Fontwork” geometries beyond the predefined shapes, with Regina Henschel

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News from the TDF OpenDocument Format Toolkit, with Svante Schubert

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Push LibreOffice Writer to its limits, and see how it behaves, with Gabriele Ponzo

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Do something awesome! Join the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022

Love LibreOffice? ❤️ You’re not alone – tens of millions of people use the software every day. And hundreds of people around the world collaborate to improve the suite, update its documentation and help to spread the word. Join them!

In the coming four weeks, we’d love it if you get involved, join our community, and have fun. You can build up valuable skills for a future career – and you don’t need to be a programmer. There are many ways to help make LibreOffice awesome, as we’ll see in a moment.

And best of all: everyone who contributes to LibreOffice in the next four weeks can claim a cool sticker pack, and has the chance to win extra LibreOffice merchandise such as mugs, hoodies, T-shirts, rucksacks and more (we’ll choose 10 participants at random at the end):

How to take part

So, let’s get started! There are many ways you can help out – and as mentioned, you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a…

  • Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers.
  • First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 7.4.2”.
  • Drum Beater, spreading the word: tell everyone about LibreOffice on Twitter or Mastodon! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.
  • Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.
  • Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

We’ll be updating this page every few days with usernames across our various services, as people contribute. So dive in, get involved and help make LibreOffice better for millions of people around the world – and enjoy your sticker pack at the end as thanks from us! And who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to win bonus merch as well…

Let’s go! We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog and our Mastodon and Twitter accounts over the next four weeks – stay tuned!

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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