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Community Member Monday: Andreas Heinisch

Today we’re talking to Andreas Heinisch, who recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am from South Tyrol, and live near the city of Meran/Merano on the mountain side. I studied computer science, and teach informatics, physics and mathematics at the local high schools. In my spare time, I like to go hiking, climbing, and of course programming 🙂

What are you working on in the LibreOffice project right now?

At the moment I am part of the Macro team, and try to solve some of the bug reports. I don’t remember exactly, but I think that I contributed to about over a dozen of them. Personally, I think macros are not without controversy due to the security concerns, but they are widely used in order to automate some easy tasks.

Why did you decide to become a member of TDF?

In my teaching activity, there’s only a small part where I can really program or solve some challenging problems. So I decided to join an open source project in order to contribute to the community, get in touch with current software lifecycle technologies and to improve or contribute to existing widely used software. To be honest: LibreOffice was the first product which came to my mind.

In addition, I think that local public administrations should not invest only in proprietary software solutions, which abuse their market position.

Anything else you plan to do in the future?

In the future I want to promote LibreOffice for our local high school, and to encourage more students to contribute to open source software. For this reason, I think that the help pages of LibreOffice should be revisited and simplified in order to attract more people to improve and contribute to such a great product.

Thanks to Andreas for all his work! Everyone in the LibreOffice project is welcome to apply as a member of TDF – check out this short video for more info…

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Month of LibreOffice, May 2020: The winners!

At the beginning of May, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs? Check it out…

This makes it the best Month of LibreOffice we’ve ever had! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. We’re hugely thankful for your work – and, of course, everyone who’s listed on the page can get a sticker pack!

How to claim

If you see your name (or username) on this page, get in touch! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page so that we can check, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you these:

(Note: your address will only be used to post the stickers, and will be deleted immediately afterwards.) If you contributed to the project in May but you’re not on the wiki page, please let us know what you did, so that we can add you.

But wait – there’s more…

And we have an extra bonus: 20 contributors have also been selected at random to get an extra piece of merchandise – a hoodie, T-shirt or snazzy LibreOffice glass mug. Here are the winners – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

  • Gellért Gyuris
  • Anastasiya T
  • Walter o’Dim
  • BigRAl
  • hoergen@horche.demkontinuum.de (Mastodon)
  • Schiavinatto
  • Earnest Al
  • jwtiyar ali nariman
  • Dimitris Spingos
  • Tuomas Hietala
  • @mpanhans@librem.one (Mastodon)
  • Hugo Carvalho
  • Ayhan YALÇINSOY
  • @sebastiaanveld (Twitter)
  • Sarper Akdemir
  • pb
  • Steve Fanning
  • Rob Westein
  • Andrew Krizhanovsky
  • Peter Schofield

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thanks once again to everyone who took part! Your contributions keep the LibreOffice project strong. We plan to have another Month of LibreOffice in November, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!

LibreOffice monthly recap: May 2020 – News, events and more…

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • We started May by announcing the Month of LibreOffice – showing our appreciation for contributions from our worldwide community. Everyone who contributed to LibreOffice throughout May can claim a cool sticker pack, and also has a chance to win extra merchandise. We’ll announce the winners here on the blog in the coming days – stay tuned!

  • Meanwhile, our documentation community announced the LibreOffice Base Guide 6.2. This covers the database component of LibreOffice – a big thanks to Pulkit Krishna, Dan Lewis, Jean Hollis Weber, Alain Romedenne, Jean-Pierre Ledure and Randolph Gamo for their work on it.

  • Next up: the Google Summer of Code, a global programme focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. LibreOffice took part last year, which led to some great new features including a QR code generator and NotebookBar improvements. LibreOffice is taking part again in 2020, with six projects – click the link to check them out…

  • In further documentation news, the Getting Started Guide was updated to version 6.4. This book covers all components of the suite, and is the collaborative work of Andrew Jensen, Claire Wood, Dan Lewis, Kees Kriek, Steve Fanning, Pulkit Krishna, Roman Kuznetsov and was reviewed and assembled by Jean Hollis Weber. We really appreciate their help!

  • In May, we interviewed two community members: Marco Marinello and Rania Amina. They both recently decided to become members of The Document Foundation, and are helping the LibreOffice project with documentation, QA and social media. And really enjoying it!

  • We mentioned the Google Summer of Code earlier, but there’s also the Google Season of Docs, which connects technical writers with FOSS projects. TDF has been accepted as a participating organisation, with projects for e-learning, mathematical documentation and code-oriented documentation.

  • Members of the Hispanic LibreOffice community met online to discuss documentation, macros, QA and other topics.

  • Finally, later in the month we released LibreOffice 6.4.4. This is a regular maintenance release with almost 100 bug fixes and compatibility improvements.

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LibreOffice Tuesday T&T: Impress Presenter Screen

LibreOffice Impress is a valuable presentation software, with plenty of advanced features. One of the most liked by skilled presenters is the so called Presentation Screen, which shows the current and the next slide on screen, and the notes. It helps the presenter to maintain the rythm of the presentation, and to remember the details of the talk.

According to LibreOffice default configuration, the Presenter Screen shows only if the PC is connected to two displays. For some people this is a feature, for some others this is a bug. In fact, it is possible to launch the Presenter Screen instead of the Presentation Screen (full screen image of the slide), by following these instructions:

Open Expert Configuration via Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced. Search for StartAlways. You should get the node org.openoffice.Office.PresenterScreen with line Presenter. Double-click that line to toggle the boolean value to true.

Once you have restarted LibreOffice Impress, when you launch the presentation either by hitting F5 or by choosing Slide Show > Start from First Slide, you will not only open the Presenter Screen but you will also launch a virtual Presentation Screen (which can even be shared or captured, if you are speaking at a virtual conference or recording a webinar or a talk).

Thanks to my fellow OSI BoD member Elana Hashman for suggesting the contents of this Tip & Trick with this blog post.

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