Today we’re chatting with a member of the French-speaking LibreOffice community, Pierre-Yves Samyn, who helps our marketing and documentation projects with videos and translations:
Where do you live, and what do you enjoy in your spare time?
I live in metropolitan France. Outside of LibreOffice, I like to read, listen and play music.
In which areas of the LibreOffice project are you active?…
LibreOffice’s worldwide community of volunteers and certified developers has been working hard on the many updates in LibreOffice 6.2. But while shiny new features are great for users, it’s important that they’re well-tested too! That’s where our QA (Quality Assurance) community comes into play. So today we talk to Xisco Fauli, The Document Foundation’s QA engineer, about the upcoming release…
What new features in LibreOffice 6.2 are you most excited about?…
After three successful C++ workshops, where you can learn about the language and put questions to experienced developers, we’re organising another one! This time, the topics are set and maps. Start by watching this presentation:
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Roman Kuznetsov (aka Kompilainenn) from our documentation community has created a Conditional Formatting Guide for LibreOffice Calc. He says:
…In this guide I wrote about:
- How to create, change and delete conditional formatting
- Multiple conditions for one cell range, and priority of condition processing
- Creating cell styles for conditional formatting
- All categories and all types of conditional formatting
- Copying of conditional formatting
I want to say a very big thank you to Sophie Gautier for reviewing this guide, and to Mike Kaganski for fixing of some bugs in conditional formatting I found when I wrote it.
Millions of people around the world use LibreOffice every day – but there are still some people who haven’t heard about our free, powerful, open source, Microsoft-compatible office suite. So here are some ideas for spreading the word – and click the image to learn more about our marketing projects:
Last week, we talked to the design community about their preparations for the upcoming LibreOffice 6.2 release. Today we hear from Sophie Gautier, who helps out with localisation (l10n) – that is, translating the software’s user interface, documentation and website into other languages…
What new feature(s) in LibreOffice 6.2 are you most excited about?
The many improvements and new features added to the online version will push it a step further and speed up its adoption.…