Interviews Archive

Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

Stefan Soyka, StarOffice developer in the early '90s

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 –

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #3 – Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software

Xisco Fauli, Ilmari Lauhakangas and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss Quality Assurance (QA) in free and open source software . (This video is also available on PeerTube.)

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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #2 – Design and UX in Free and Open Source Software

Heiko Tietze from LibreOffice’s Design community tells us about UI and UX improvements in the suite, how decisions are made, and more. (Also available on PeerTube).

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Community Member Monday: Ndidi Folasade Ogboi

Ndidi Folasade Ogboi

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in Lagos, Nigeria, and I spend my time dabbling into user experience design with research, although these days, I’m diving deeper into research. I’m a big fan of books, especially well-written fiction. Music is also a huge part of my

Hazard: A LibreOffice Impress template to play Jeopardy-like games

Hazard LibreOffice template screenshot

Marcial Machado recently posted on Reddit about his “fully-featured LibreOffice Impress template for creating Jeopardy-style games. Just add your questions and categories, and you’re good to go!” So let’s find out more…

What does the template do?

At its core, the template is meant to emulate what a

Community Member Monday: Moritz Duge

Moritz Duge

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I live in the north of Germany, in the city of Hamburg. Probably not so far away from where the first lines of what was called StarWriter where written, just a year before I was born.

I remember downloading StarOffice over a 64