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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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 😄

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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