Who makes the big technical decisions in the LibreOffice project? In this video from our recent LibreOffice Conference in Spain, the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) introduces itself and provides an update on the latest updates:
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Here’s the final set of presentations from the “Sala de Grados (Aulario IV)” room at the LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. We have many more videos from other rooms to come, of course! (Note: for better audio, use headphones.)
First up is “Neural Machine Translation for LibreOffice” with Thomas Viehmann:
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Next, “Weblate public test feedback round” with Christian Lohmaier:
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“Experiment for large-scale operation of LibreOffice Online, 2019 Edition” with Masaki Murakami:
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“LibreOffice Online new features” with Cor Nouws:
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“Online integration success stories” with Jan Holesovsky:
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And “10/20 Anniversary Planning” with Italo Vignoli:
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Yes, we’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. Many of these cover interoperability between LibreOffice and other office software. To start, here’s “Sharing is caring” with Marina Latini:
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“TDF community and membership: how to get in” with Gabriele Ponzo:
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“LibreOffice community and the SDG” with Leo Moons:
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“Interoperability as core feature” with Gábor Kelemen:
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“Interoperable office collaboration” with Svante Schubert:
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“Interoperability improvements in the last year” with Mike Kaganski:
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“Watermarking: a secure way to share documents” with Mert Tümer:
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And “Interoperability of Charts between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office” with Balázs Varga:
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LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers. Recently, Lera Goncharuk, Alex Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov worked on a Russian translation of the getting started guide – click the image below to read it. If you want to help with a translation in your own language, see this page to get started – and thanks for your help!
We’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. First up, “Generating ODF reports on server side” with Jeff Huang:
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Then “How best to migrate to LibreOffice” with Andras Timar:
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“Grow out of nothing” with Wen-Ke Huang:
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“Agile LibreOffice: how not to lead an open source project” with Björn Michaelsen:
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“Recruiting is hard, let’s go shopping” with Ilmari Lauhakangas:
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“TDF’s Membership Committee: how does it work” with Gabriele Ponzo:
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“Handling TDF membership applications with the mcm-script” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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“LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 Tokyo: what we achieved, and what’s next” with Naruhiko Ogasawara, Shinji Enoki and Jun Nogata:
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“Making LibreOffice a lifesaver for dying languages in Asia” with Kuan-Ting Lin and Xiao-Wu Wang:
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And finally, “The challenge of a regional LibreOffice Conference” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
The biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2019 which took place in Almeria, Spain. Over 100 people from across the globe met up to discuss current developments in LibreOffice, make plans for the future, and have fun. Here’s our group photo:
We also made a short video recap of the conference – check it out!
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Furthermore, we’ve started uploading presentations from the conference. Here’s a playlist, starting with the opening session; use the icon at the top to switch to other videos:
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But plenty more was happening in the LibreOffice community, outside of the conference! For instance, a group of developers teamed up to improve PPT/PPTX (PowerPoint) file support. They will work together on code reviews and bug reports.
In addition, a new macro team was created to improve LibreOffice’s macro support. They will work together with the QA community.
Over in Uganda, Emmanuel Semutenga is helping young people in Kampala to improve their IT skills – using LibreOffice and other free software tools. He told us about his experiences and what advice he has for other projects with similar goals.
During September, The Document Foundation announced three new minor releases of LibreOffice, fixing bugs and improving compatibility.
LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 arrived on September 5, while version 6.3.2 was released on September 26.
Next year’s LibreOffice Conference will be held in Nuremberg, Germany – and it’ll be a joint conference with the openSUSE project. And we need a logo! You can help us to design this logo and win a mystery box at the end… Here are the logos for the 2019 conferences, for inspiration:
Finally, LibreOffice celebrated its 9th birthday near the end of the month. We’d like to say a huge thanks to all users, supporters, developers and donators who’ve helped to make LibreOffice possible. Here’s to another nine years!