The weekend before Easter, a number of hackers congregated in the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany for the first Impress Sprint. Hosted by Dresden Technical University’s Institute for Applied Photophysics, and run by TDF volunteers, the event was rooted in the desire to improve Impress for power users, and getting a number of those tiny,
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21 Feb 2013
Interview of Naruhiko Ogasawara, a localizer from Japan
LibreOffice can only exist since people are working on it: so please, tell us a bit about yourself.
I’m a member of LibreOffice Japanese Team; working in the backyard of Japanese community. Driving
01 Feb 2013
Interview with LibreOffice localizers around the world: Helen & Sophie
Today we interview two great women, Helen Ushakova and Sophie Gautier, from the Russophone and Francophone communities.
LibreOffice can only exist since people are working on it: so please, tell us a bit
07 Jan 2013
Waving TDF Long Tail
In 2012, developers hacking LibreOffice code have been around 320, with a majority of volunteers and a minority of people paid by companies such as SUSE, RedHat and Canonical (plus a multitude of smaller organizations such as Lanedo, which is also a
26 Dec 2012
TDF in 2012: a summary
I have tried to summarize in a single text what we – members, developers, volunteers, native language communities, advocates and supporters – have achieved during 2012. Looking back, it has been amazing.
TDF has started 2012 with a hackers community of 379 individuals, mostly volunteers, which has continued to grow steadily – month after month –
20 Dec 2012
LibreOffice Munich Hack-fest
The intense pace of development work on LibreOffice as we approach our 4.0 release has rather delayed an update on our recent extremely successful LibreOffice hack-fest. To give an idea of the work going on, instead of the around 1500 commits per month we normally get, we had