LibreOffice Conference 2019: Photos from days 2 and 3

Last week was the LibreOffice Conference 2019 in Almeria, Spain. It was an awesome event, and great to see so many community members – a big thanks to everyone who took part! We already posted some photos from the first day, along with the video of the opening session. Now we have some photos from the second and third days, starting with the special bus that took us to the conference location every day…

Here’s Tomaž Vajngerl, Mike Kaganski and Heiko Tiezte talking about user interface design:

In one talk, Gabriele Ponzo discussed the role of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee:

At lunch we enjoyed migas – it was great!

Collabora brought a virtual reality device – here’s QA engineer Xisco Fauli testing it out:

In another talk, we looked at encouraging people to contribute to LibreOffice, and the reasons why:

And then on the evening of the final day, we had a great guided tour of the Alcazaba of Almería

Coming up: there were many talks and presentations at the conference, so we’ll be uploading videos from them to our YouTube channel soon. Stay tuned to this blog for updates!

Video: Opening session of LibreOffice Conference 2019

Here’s the opening session – there’s a quick introduction in Spanish, followed by English at 00:40:

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LibreOffice has a new Macro Team

Power users often implement macros in their documents, and LibreOffice’s volunteer contributors are typically power users, so it makes sense to ensure the tools they need are in excellent shape. We are excited to announce the creation of a dedicated team for macro improvements in the LibreOffice contributor community.

The team composition is currently as follows:

  • Andreas Heinisch, a new contributor who has improved the user interface of macro editing
  • Tomoyuki Kubota, a contributor for 1.5 years who has done bug and build system fixes and code cleanups
  • Luane, a new contributor who is improving the documentation related to macros and extension development as well as analysing macro-related bug reports
  • Alain Romedenne, a veteran documenter of macro matters

To make sure the macro team can work efficiently, the LibreOffice quality assurance team has cleaned up the collection of macro issues. The QA team will offer help to all macro team members to the best of its ability.

Examples of tasks the team members have worked on:

If you are interested in contributing to the macro team (development, testing or documentation), please send an email to ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org. Thanks!