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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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Using LibreOffice Base to Teach Relational Database Management

Dominique Welt, Ph.D. Candidate and instructor at McGill University, writes:

This summer, my paper on using LibreOffice Base to teach relational database management was featured at the Twenty-eighth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). AMCIS is the Americas’ major conference for management information systems scholars. The paper draws from my experience using LibreOffice Base to teach relational database management at McGill University in 2021.

You can consult the paper and watch the video presentation using this link to the conference proceedings, which also features a video presentation.

Keynote speeches from the LibreOffice Conference 2022

We’re uploading more sessions from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! First we had the opening session, and now the keynotes from our two main sponsors:

allotropia

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Collabora

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Video: Opening session from the LibreOffice Conference 2022

We’re starting to upload videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Here’s the opening session on our YouTube channel – or if you’d prefer to watch it on PeerTube, click here.

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LibreOffice project and community recap: September 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…

  • Our biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2022! This was the first in-person conference since 2019, due to the pandemic, and it was a great opportunity to meet face-to-face, share ideas and make plans for the future of our projects. We live-streamed presentations – and will be uploading the videos next week. Stay tuned!

  • In September, we released two new updates for LibreOffice: 7.3.6 and 7.4.1. All users are recommended to upgrade 👍

  • LibreOffice is, as always, free of charge to download from our website. But now we’re offering it in the Mac App Store for a small price, to cover the costs of placing it there, and helping to fund future development on macOS-specific improvements. So if you want to get regular updates via the App Store and help to fund future development, you can get it there. (But it will remain totally free on the LibreOffice website, as mentioned.)

  • Help tocCrowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations! LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations. This project aims to crowdfund the feature.

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