Our “join the LibreOffice community” video includes snippets from interviews with LibreOffice contributors. Want to see the three interviews in full? Here’s the playlist – click the icon in the top-left to switch between the videos…
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Here’s the latest batch of videos we’ve uploaded from the LibreOffice Conference in Brno. Enjoy the presentations – there’s something for everyone!
There are still more videos to come, so keep an eye on the blog and we’ll post updates soon!
With the Month of LibreOffice nearly over (stay tuned for a wrap-up!) we now return to our regular interviews with contributors to the project. This week it’s the turn of Leif Lodahl, who helps out with localization…
What do you do in the LibreOffice project?
I am the lead of the Danish localization team, and I live and work in the Copenhagen Area in Denmark. You can find my LibreOffice contributions and social media accounts here:
I live with my wife Marianne (with whom I have just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary) in the suburbs to Copenhagen. My two sons are both adults and have left our home.
Do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just contribute in your spare time?
Until September 1st I was working as project manager and business developer in the company Magenta. From September 1st I’m working as IT architect at City of Ballerup (Ballerup Municipality). My work for (and with) LibreOffice has, until recently, been both professional and in my spare time.
How did you get involved with LibreOffice?
Many years ago, when OpenOffice.org was at version 1.1.0, I accidentally found the project and complained about the machine-translated graphical user interface (GUI). I then started improving the GUI and when Sun Microsystems was preparing OpenOffice.org 2.0 we managed to translate both the GUI and the Help content.
What areas of the project do you normally work on?
I’m primarily working as the country and language lead, but have also been involved in LibreOffice as member of the Membership Committee. As one of the founding members I have been with The Document Foundation from the beginning.
Over the years I have been involved in implementation projects in various public organizations in Denmark, and back in 2006 I was engaged in the public and political discussions in Denmark about open standards.
In 2015 I was in charge of organizing the LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus, Denmark.
What was your initial experience of contributing to LibreOffice like?
Back in the OpenOffice.org days I found that contributing to the project by translating was pretty easy and I could see my own contributions in later releases, which was very encouraging.
What do you do in your spare time?
“Run, Forrest, Run.” I usually run at least twice a week. Not because of the completion – just for the health benefits. Also, once a week I have the pleasure of taking care of a six year-old child with both physical and mental disabilities.
Thanks Leif! And to all blog readers: if you want to improve the localization of LibreOffice in your language or location, you can get involved here. Thanks in advance for your contributions!
We’re now into the final week of the Month of LibreOffice, November 2016! So far, 210 badges have been awarded – so 210 members of the LibreOffice community have contributed in the last 23 days. Fantastic work, everyone!
If your name isn’t there, you still have a chance to earn a shiny badge to put on your blog or social media – and tell the world about open source and digital freedom. Here are some quick ways to get a badge:
Or if you have some extra time to spare and want to get more involved:
So pick a task and grab a badge while you can!
LibreOffice 5.3 will be announced at the end of January 2017, with a large number of new features which are summarized on the release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing a second bug hunting session on Friday, November 25, 2016. Tests will be performed on the Beta version of LibreOffice 5.3, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/) a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), MacOS and Windows, and will run in parallel with the production version.
Mentors will be available on November 25, 2016, from 8AM UTC to 10PM UTC. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Beta release (LibreOffice 5.3.0 Beta1) will be available until mid December.
During the day there will be two dedicated sessions: the first to chase bugs on the main LibreOffice modules between 3PM UTC and 5PM UTC, and the second to test a set of the top 7 features between 5PM UTC and 7PM UTC. All details of the second bug hunting session are available on the specific wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/5.3.0Beta1.
During the dedicated sessions, we will concentrate all efforts to chase and reproduce the bugs, in order to confirm and file them in a more comprehensive way. Of course, the more comprehensive will be the bug report, the easier will be for the developers to solve the bugs in time for the final release.
Here at The Document Foundation we’ve been really busy since the LibreOffice Conference in September, running our Community Weeks and the Month of LibreOffice. But finally we’ve started putting videos online from presentations at the conference.
Don’t miss this opening presentation, the State of the Project, and then scroll down for more talks and demos.
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More presentations:
We’ll be adding more videos next week, so stay tuned to the blog and subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates!
