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Fixing a LibreOffice bug in less than eight hours!

LibreOffice’s QA community works on identifying, testing and fixing bug reports from users around the world. Gabriele Ponzo, a long-time LibreOffice contributors and part of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee, tells us about how a bug was recently fixed in just under eight hours:

I’m particularly used to keyboard usage of LibreOffice, and thus I noticed that something I did really often wasn’t working anymore: searching backwards with the Find Toolbar. At least not in the way I used to do it: hitting Shift+Enter after having typed the text to be searched.

So I tried several times and then decided to submit a bug. I’m not new in bug reporting, and several bugs that I’ve reported in the past were solved, sooner or later.

But this time, I was surprised by the resolution speed: less than eight hours!

Obviously this is just one particular and very positive case, but it deserves to be highlighted – since it’s a sign of how strong the activity is in our community.

A big thank you goes to Caolán McNamara, in this case, but to the whole community that I’m proud to represent when I speak in public, being part of it, and also part of the TDF governance.

Great work, Gabriele and Caolán! See here for the bug report and the steps that were taken to resolve it. And to all LibreOffice users: if you’ve found something in LibreOffice that isn’t working as expected, you can give our QA community a hand by submitting your own report. Thanks!

First batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

Our online conference for 2021 took place last week, and we’ve already uploaded a bunch of videos from it! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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Note: many of these are also available on PeerTube, and more will be added!

LibreOffice Conference 2021: How-to for participants

The online LibreOffice Conference 2021 starts tomorrow! Here’s how to take part…

Program

The schedule of the conference is available from here. Time zone is on the upper left: depending on your system settings, it usually is Europe/Berlin time (UTC+2).

There is an app available too – downloads from here:

Attending

Talks will be streamed on the website and on YouTube. Links will be made available on the first day of the conference and will be always available on the conference website. Please check the YouTube links regularly, at least once per day, as they might change.

We strongly recommend one of the two streaming above, but you can still join the Jitsi instance as a fallback with these links (to post questions/comments, please use the separate discussion channels below):

For socializing, chatting, seeing each other, and testing their video setup, all registered attendees can now use our “LibOCon Social” room (this room is neither streamed nor recorded).

Note that you are requested to register (if you are not a speaker) here in that case.

If you are not registered already, and if you register during the conference, it might take a while to get processed. And make sure that you are muted when you join and there are no videos active on your side.

Note: The current Jitsi version does NOT work with Safari on macOS at all. Firefox and Chrome work without problems. The Jitsi app for Android and iOS will likely not work with the Jitsi instance. We strongly recommend participating from a desktop device, or use one of the other mobile-compatible streaming facilities above (website, YouTube)

Asking questions

If you want to ask questions to the speakers, you can do so via Matix, IRC and Telegram. The 3 channels are bridged together, so you only need to join your preferred one:

The moderator of the talk will read your questions to the speaker and they will answer in the stream. Do not ask your questions on the Jitsi chat.

General

There are two more channels at your disposal: we will publish all announcements on the two Telegram groups: LibreOffice Virtual Conference Announcements and LibreOffice Virtual Conference. On IRC, the general channel is here, while on Matrix it is here.

If you want to support the conference by purchasing LibreOffice Conference swag from Freewear, you can do so from this page.

Our Code of Conduct applies during the virtual conference too.

We wish all attendees a great time at the conference – thanks for taking part!

Czech translation of Impress Guide 7.0 is here!

Zdeněk Crhonek from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

The Czech team has finished translating the Impress Guide 7.0. As usual, it was a team effort, namely:

Translations by Zdeněk Crhonek, Radomír Strnad, Petr Kuběj, Vendula Crhonková; text corrections Petr Valach, Ludmila Klatovská, Martin Kasper, Marcela Tomešová; localized pictures Roman Roman; and technical support from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!

The Czech translation of the Impress Guide 7.0 is available for download here.

The team continue with translations of the Draw Guide and Base Guide. We always looking for new translators. Join us!

Many thanks to everyone in the Czech community for their awesome work!

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021

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

  • We’re looking forward to the LibreOffice Conference 2021, coming up in September – and we now have a logo, thanks to Alan Ward!

  • Our series of guides to fixing interoperability bugs in LibreOffice continued this month with part 2 and part 3.

  • In the LibreOffice project, we make use of various social media platforms to spread the word, and bring new contributors to us. We posted about the importance of LinkedIn pages for our projects, and how we’re growing them.

  • French social-impact company Hypra, focused on accessibility in free and open source software, joined TDF’s Advisory Board this month. We look forward to sharing insights and experiences, strengthening all our work together.

  • Finally, some documentation updates! The Brazilian Portuguese Writer 7.1 guide was released on August 23, while the English Writer Guide 7.2 was also made available around the same time. Many thanks to all contributors in the docs project for their updates and translations!

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