Stanislav Horáček writes:
Like every year, we would like to say few words about our impressions and experiences from our Czech free and open source software (FOSS) conferences in autumn. As in the last year, we participate with our LibreOffice booth at LinuxDays in Prague (me and Zdeněk Crhonek), and at OpenAlt in Brno (Petr Valach and Zdeněk Crhonek).…
Ilmari Lauhakangas (aka Buovjaga) writes:
A year ago we started migrating our wiki translations to the standard translation management system used across the known wikiverse. The system allows for proper tracking of translation status, and offers a user experience familiar to LibreOffice translators.
By the end of summer 2019, we had enough experience with the new system to be able to define best practices and give instructions to translators.…
The Albanian LibreOffice community has been super active in recent years, organising the LibreOffice Conference 2018 in Tirana, and regularly contributing with translation and marketing efforts. Sidorela Uku reports from a recent localisation sprint at Open Labs Hackerspace:
…This was the first event I organized for LibreOffice, in collaboration with a friend of mine, Marcela Korreshi (our new contributor).
Two weeks ago, we kicked off a new Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the project. Participants can claim a cool sticker pack, and have a chance to win a mug too!
So, how’s it looking so far? Here’s how many sticker packs have been awarded:
We’re doing our best to track all contributions from the LibreOffice community, so if you’ve done something in the project but your name (or username) isn’t there yet, let us know.…
We often talk about the desktop version of LibreOffice on this blog, but our community is working on mobile tools as well. For instance, the LibreOffice Impress Remote lets you interact with your slideshow presentation from your Android device – including slide previews, speaker notes, and more.
At the weekend, we released an update for the Impress Remote (version 2.4.0), with various bugfixes and updates:
Note that there’s an additional permission required for the app in this release, coarse location, but it’s solely for Bluetooth discovery.…
The Google Summer of Code – aka GSoC – is a global programme focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. In 2019, LibreOffice was once again a participating project, and we describe the results here.
Meanwhile, Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community gave a presentation about GSoC on November 8 at YILDIZ Amphitheater M2, Hacettepe University (Beytepe Campus), Ankara – here’s what he had to say:
…There were around 40 attendees, mostly from the Computer Science department.