
LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, made up of volunteers, certified developers and companies in the wider ecosystem. Today we’re talking to Thorsten Behrens, who serves on The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors and works for allotropia…
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I’m Thorsten Behrens, living in Hamburg, Germany. With						
 
						
					 
									
						
						
						
													
						
							
LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, made up of volunteers, certified developers and companies in the wider ecosystem. Today we’re talking to Caolán McNamara, a long-time LibreOffice developer who works for Red Hat…
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I’m a Principal Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. on						
 
						
					 
									
						
						
						
													
						
							Hossein Nourikhah writes:
Ever wondered about using modern chat tools to discuss LibreOffice? Here we will discuss using a Matrix bridge to connect to the LibreOffice IRC rooms, to participate more efficiently in LibreOffice-related discussions.
Traditionally, IRC has been the preferred way of communication for the FOSS communities including the LibreOffice community. There are multiple IRC						
 
						
					 
									
						
						
						
													
						
							
Today we’re talking to Bayram Çiçek, who’s helping to implement new features in LibreOffice as part of the Google Summer of Code…
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I live in Çanakkale, Turkey. I’ve just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
When I was a student, professors						
 
						
					 
									
						
						
						
													
						
							
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and here						
 
						
					 
									
						
						
						
													
						
							The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice.
We are looking for an individual or company to implement C++ accessibility tests.
The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version.
The current accessibility tests are rather