LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to our worldwide community of volunteers. Recently, Lera Goncharuk, Alex Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov worked on a Russian translation of the getting started guide – click the image below to read it. If you want to help with a translation in your own language, see this page to get started – and thanks for your help!
We’ve uploaded some more presentations from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. First up, “Generating ODF reports on server side” with Jeff Huang:
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Then “How best to migrate to LibreOffice” with Andras Timar:
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“Grow out of nothing” with Wen-Ke Huang:
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“Agile LibreOffice: how not to lead an open source project” with Björn Michaelsen:
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“Recruiting is hard, let’s go shopping” with Ilmari Lauhakangas:
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“TDF’s Membership Committee: how does it work” with Gabriele Ponzo:
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“Handling TDF membership applications with the mcm-script” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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“LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 Tokyo: what we achieved, and what’s next” with Naruhiko Ogasawara, Shinji Enoki and Jun Nogata:
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“Making LibreOffice a lifesaver for dying languages in Asia” with Kuan-Ting Lin and Xiao-Wu Wang:
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And finally, “The challenge of a regional LibreOffice Conference” with Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco:
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More videos still to come!
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more!
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The year 2020 will be the 20th anniversary of the free office suite (OpenOffice.org was announced on July 19, 2000) and the 10th anniversary of LibreOffice (announced on September 28, 2010). We have the opportunity to celebrate both during the year, to reaffirm the fact that LibreOffice today is the leading free office suite available in the market.
For the anniversary project, we need a specific logo which celebrates the 10/20 anniversary without making a difference between the two dates, as the concept is that LibreOffice was born 20 years ago as OpenOffice.org, and evolved into LibreOffice 10 years ago.
The 10/20 logo should be easy to associate to the current LibreOffice logo (with tagline), and follow TDF design and style guides (Corporate Image) published on the wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding.
The 10/20 logo will be used for presentations, event signage, swag and gadgets (like stickers). It should be easy to recognize and read at small sizes.
The 10/20 logo must be developed with free and open source software, and released in vector-based (SVG) as well as bitmap-based (PNG, JPG) formats. The logo must be available in a squared or nearly squared format, plus other formats as appropriate.
One example of a possible implementation should also be provided with the proposal.
Intellectual property must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), while a copyright transfer to TDF is not required.
Authors must declare in writing that they are the sole owners of all rights related to the artwork they have developed.
It should be clear that this is not a request for a mascot, and any kind of proposal which could be interpreted as a mascot will be rejected. Also, the 10/20 logo must be global and as such any reference to a regional styling approach (such as Anime or Manga) will also be rejected.
Logo proposals must be sent to: italo@libreoffice.org by November 30, 2019, at 11:59PM UTC. TDF will select the best proposal, which will be announced on December 16, 2019.
The author of the winning proposal will be announced at FOSDEM 2020, where the 10/20 logo will be displayed for the first time during a global FOSS event.
Ilmari Lauhakangas, based in Helsinki (Finland), is in charge of Development Marketing.
We have asked him a few questions, about his relationship with free software and his role in the community.
How did you become involved with free software and LibreOffice? Are you contributing to other FOSS projects?
I did localisation for FOSS projects in the early 2010s. Around 2012, I started contributing more to Retroshare, a secure communication platform, doing recruiting, translation coordination and web design.
In 2014 I began doing quality assurance for LibreOffice. People like Yousuf Philips, Joel Madero and Robinson Tryon were instrumental in making me understand the relevance of QA work. The attitude towards recruiting more contributors was spontaneous and immediate in the QA team.
I have focused on LibreOffice for the past few years.
You have been involved in the LibreOffice project for quite a long time, in QA and other areas. Can you summarize your activities?
I have: 1. somehow touched over twelve thousand reports in TDF Bugzilla, 2. improved and written technical documentation in TDF wiki, 3. improved help content, 4. done development for the web help, 5. edited content for the main website, 6. piloted the use of the translate extension for TDF wiki and guided people in its use, 7. helped new contributors get started in development, QA, documentation, design and infra, 8. recruited contributors through various channels such as VolunteerMatch.
You have explored several tools to attract new contributors. What do you think we should do as a project to keep the high level of contributions necessary for a large FOSS project such as LibreOffice?
We should make sure our technical documentation is high quality. When developers run into good documentation, they are very happy.
We should invest in improving the user experience of our web-based tools.
You are responsible for Development Marketing since September 1. How can you describe your responsibilities? Who should get in touch with you?
Basically everyone who wants to improve LibreOffice should get in touch. If you have no idea of how you could even be useful, I will help you find out, because everyone can be a part of the community and contribute! I hope to encourage strong cross-team collaboration. I want people to be credited for their work. I want us to have a safe and supporting environment for everyone to challenge themselves, try new things and learn new skills.
Technology focused high schools and universities, what should we do to grow the interest and the willingness to contribute among students?
This is more of a political question. If money and resources are lacking in education, teachers will not have time to offer structured introductions to free software projects. Likewise, if higher education is not free, students will have to work alongside their studies and will not have the energy contribute to FOSS.
On our part, we need to provide students with software they can rely on. In Finland, thirty thousand students in advanced secondary education use LibreOffice every year. If they find the software enjoyable, surely they are more inclined to contribute.
Happy 9th Anniversary to LibreOffice, to the community of volunteer contributors – represented by The Document Foundation – and to every person who made the dream possible with a donation or a simple download. If you have developed, patched, localized, tested, triaged, documented, communicated, promoted, explained, supported, certified, trained or migrated either the software or the organizations deploying it or the people using it, you should celebrate. Together, we have been able to transform a dream into a reality.
Thanks to Geralt for the image, released with a Pixabay License.
