LibreOffice QA has been busy during the last few months!
We had our first BugHunting Session for the upcoming LibreOffice 5.1 release over the Halloween weekend at the end of October. Testing our alpha1 builds, members of the QA Team helped to lead users, developers, and other community members in identifying and documenting problems in our very first binaries available for this release series.…
LibOCon in Aarhus, Denmark, has been a really nice meeting especially for the L10n/NLP communities with a large workshop on the day before the opening of the conference. Even the whole afternoon was too short to discuss all the topics we had on the agenda. Around 40 persons from all over the world were attending the meeting.…
Marketing and PR at TDF are a very demanding task, as we are covering the entire world from a single point in Europe. It is a challenging role, and also a very rewarding one (because we continue to increase the project visibility with each announcement, and this is a testament to the quality of the software).…
I started working for Document Foundation in November. I live and work in southern Spain, Malaga, a nice warm place. I wrote my first program in 1975, so I have been active in the pre-unix, pre-linux, pre-pc worlds, and have been involved in developing drivers, micro kernels and compilers. I retired from my international companies in 2011, dedicating time to open source.…
I am working as marketing intern since October, living and working out of Lillehammer, Norway. I have been working with open source software and projects since around the year 2000. Before that I was a development manager for ERP software for some years. I have also been heavily involved in using office suites as front ends to ERP and other systems both in private industry and the public sector.…
Now that the summer vacation time is over for many of us, it’s time to have a look at what has been happening behind the scenes with our fantastic native-language community. And indeed – it’s a lot of exciting things!
Now that TDF has launched the Android Viewer and even if the application itself is not yet available other than in en_US language, we could at least give its description in several languages.…
