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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom at FOSDEM 2023: Call for Papers

2022-11-082022-11-08

After two virtual events, FOSDEM 2023 will be in person, taking place on Saturday, February 4, and Sunday, February 5. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, February 4, from 3PM to 7PM.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

December 11: Submission deadline
December 13: Announcement of selected talks
December 15: Publication of DevRoom schedule

We might update this call for papers with further details, as soon as we receive them from FOSDEM organizers. Please check TDF blog and social media channels on a regular basis.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are inviting proposals for talks about LibreOffice Technology, including ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, documentation, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy. Please keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM.

In order to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule, the length of talks will be limited to a maximum of 15 or 20 minutes, including questions, according to the number of submissions.

TALK SUBMISSIONS

All talk submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23

While filing the proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf).

To submit your talk, click on “Create Event” and select the “LibreOffice Technology” DevRoom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all.

If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact italo at libreoffice.org for help.

CONTACTS

Italo Vignoli: italo at libreoffice.org
Mike Saunders: mike.saunders at documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice Conference 2022: Impressions from an attendee (and speaker!)

2022-11-072022-11-07

Regina Henschel writes:

Since the LibreOffice Conference 2022 was a “hybrid” conference, I decided to travel to Milan. These were exciting days. I gave two presentations: “Introduction to the ‘Limo Stretch’ feature of shapes” and “Creating ‘fontwork’ geometries beyond the predefined shapes”. The first one is addressed at developers, whereas the second one is suitable for everyone. You find the slides and additional material here and here. Videos of my talks are below.

It was important for me to gain insights into other areas. The Community Meetings on Wednesday introduced me to the problems that LibreOffice communities have in several regions of the world, along with solutions and success stories from others. During the conference, I heard a lot about language-specific aspects of LibreOffice. Do you have ever think about the way a piece of text in Arabic is justified? Or noticed what special problems occur with writing directions top-to-bottom and then right-to-left as used in Japanese?

Last but not least, I enjoyed personally meeting community members. Having lunch together and the wonderful pasta community dinner were opportunities to get to know each other, beyond code review, Bugzilla and mailing lists. I hope to meet you all again at next LibreOffice Conference.

Thanks to Regina for attending and giving her presentations! And, of course, all her work in our community 😊 Here are videos of her talks at the conference:

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An introduction to the “Documents as a Service” project, with Marco Marinello

Is ScriptForge really a scam? With Jean-Pierre Ledure

Introduction to the feature “limo-stretch” of shapes, with Regina Henschel

Creating “Fontwork” geometries beyond the predefined shapes, with Regina Henschel

News from the TDF OpenDocument Format Toolkit, with Svante Schubert

Push LibreOffice Writer to its limits, and see how it behaves, with Gabriele Ponzo

State of Korea in LibreOffice and promoting future plans, with DaeHyun Sung

Using resolution independent positions for writer’s screen-rendering of text, with Caolán McNamara

Content controls in Writer, with Miklos Vajna

Improving Structured Document Text (SDT) support in Writer, with Vasily Melenchuk

Improving LibreOffice Calc, with Balázs Varga

Sparklines and chart data tables – new features in Calc, with Tomaž Vajngerl

Reducing Build Time (2022), with Luboš Luňák

News from the WASM front – Calc and headless operations, with Thorsten Behrens and Balázs Varga

Using graph theory, let’s look at the addition, modification, and removal of features in all versions of LibreOffice, with Koji Annoura

Designing better API, with Luboš Luňák

Maintaining a complex OpenOffice/LibreOffice Java extension over 15 year, with Thorsten Behrens and Björn Ranft

Jenkins Goes for a Kill, with Stephan Bergmann

LibreOffice continuous integration improvements and suggestions, with Thorsten Behrens

Chasing an Interoperability Bug in Impress, with Sarper Akdemir

Test coverage in LibreOffice, with Xisco Fauli

Five things we could do to help language communities flourish, with Eyal Rozenberg

State of interoperability – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with Gabor Kelemen