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Next C++ workshop: 10 January 2019 at 19:00 UTC

Yes, we’re running another C++ workshop, where you can watch a video about a specific feature of the language, then join our community of developers for a live discussion! This time, the topic is abstract data types:

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Then join us on 10 January at 19:00 UTC for a discussion via our #libreoffice-dev IRC channel on Freenode. You can ask experienced LibreOffice developers questions, and learn more about the language. See you then!

Community Member Monday: José Gatica and Andika Triwidada

LibreOffice is the work of hundreds of volunteers and certified developers across the globe. Today we speak to two members of the community about their activities and experiences in the project!

José Gatica

Where do you live, what do you love, and can we follow you on social media?

I’m from Valdivia, Chile. I’m active on Twitter: @josegatica. I’m a musician, so that’s my second job 🙂

In which areas of the LibreOffice project are you active?

I love to help people on the Ask LibreOffice community support website, but my “LibreOffice Life” is about migrating computers from MS Office to LibreOffice, and teaching people about how to use it. Nowadays I’m looking for time to contribute with code too.

How did you get involved with the community?

I started to use LibreOffice a long time ago, but with my active work with ParrotSec GNU/Linux and something for the Free Software Foundation came the need (yeah, the need) to get involved with LibreOffice too.

What was your initial experience of contributing to LibreOffice like?

First I wanted some support from The Document Foundation or something like that, then came the news about the LibreOffice certification program. My initial experience was during my project redaction and application, and for people that work here with me.

Thanks José! And now on to…

Andika Triwidada

Where do you live, what do you love, and can we follow you on social media?

I live in Bandung, Indonesia, but I quite often go to Jakarta for projects and work. I sometimes lurk in IRC, rarely on Twitter, daily on Facebook, and maybe weekly in Google+. When I’m not working on LibreOffice, one of my hobbies is translating other open source projects 😀

In which areas of LibreOffice are you active?

Localization – mostly translation.

What was your initial experience of contributing to LibreOffice like?

Good! I can work independently via Pootle.

What does LibreOffice need most right now?

I don’t know – maybe better compatibility with Microsoft Office.

What tools do you use for your work?

Poedit, a cross-platform gettext catalogs editing tool.

Cheers Andika – thanks for your help in making LibreOffice a truly universal productivity tool, available in over 100 languages! Anyone can help to translate the software, website and documentation – see here to get started.

Video playlist: Main room of LibreOffice Conference 2018

We’ve finished editing and uploading all the videos from the main room of the LibreOffice Conference 2018 in Tirana, Albania. To view slides for the talks, find the PDFs in the program here:

Apologies that the audio isn’t great in many cases – that’s due to technical and acoustic limitations of the venue. But try listening with headphones, and follow along with the slides as linked above.

So here are the videos, starting with the opening session; click the playlist in the top-left to choose other ones:

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LibreOffice monthly recap: December 2018

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

  • At the start of December, we wrapped up the Month of LibreOffice from November – and 345 sticker packs had been awarded, more than any other Month of LibreOffice in history! This reflects the thriving community around the software – learn more about the results here.

  • At our recent conference in Tirana, Albania, we sat down with Muhammet Kara from the Turkish LibreOffice community to talk about FOSS migrations in his home country and why he joined the membership committee. We finished editing the video in early December, so here it is!

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  • Meanwhile, the Taiwanese community held a Bug Hunting Session and Franklin Weng reported back about it. A big thanks to everyone who took part, and helped to make the next release of LibreOffice super reliable!

  • Want to make document compatibility in LibreOffice even better? Well, much of the compatibility – especially with legacy and proprietary file formats, is provided by the Document Liberation Project. So TDF’s marketing team made a quick video explaining how everyone can help:

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  • But we’re still maintaining the LibreOffice 6.1 branch, and released LibreOffice 6.1.4 on December 18 – it provides over 120 bug and regression fixes over the previous version.
  • Finally, we wrapped up the year with the LibreOffice 2018 Christmas Quiz! See how much you know about the software, its history, and the community behind it…

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LibreOffice community events: Cyprus and Japan

Happy new year! But before we really get into 2019, here are a couple of short event reports from our LibreOffice communities around the world, for events in December 2018. A big thanks to the organisers for their work, and the participants – you’re all doing a great job to boost the community, improve LibreOffice, and share information!

Cyprus: METU NCC LibreOffice Event(s) 2018

During the last weekend of the year (December 28-30), there was a series of events at METU NCC (in Cyprus), organized by the METU NCC ACM Student Chapter. The number of attendees at the seminar was much lower than the last year, probably because of the holiday season, but interaction/result efficiency of the workshop/hackfest was better than the last year. Most of the attendees were from the Computer Engineering department.

All attendees completed the “getting started” part of LibreOffice development. Some of them submitted their patches to Gerrit, and some are preparing to do so. Here are the event pages on on our wiki: METUNCCLODev2018 and METUNCC2018.

Japan: Kanto LibreOffice Offline meeting 2018.12

On 13th December, at the Yahoo! Lodge (1-3, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), LibreOffice community members who are usually far away from one another met up for a chance to interact. At this event, participants had a question-and-answer session about translations, discussed some other topics, and prepared slides for the following day. Attendees included: Naruhiko Ogasawara, Shinji Enoki, Masaki Murakami Tomas Kapiye (from Namibia), Dieudonne Dukuzumuremyi (Rwanda), Hatem Wasfy(Egypt) Rin Nakamura and Atsushi Ueda. Here’s the event page (in Japanese).

Japan: Open Source Conference 2018.Enterprise

On the following day, the LibreOffice Japanese team did a seminar. This time, the speakers were Tomas Kapiye, Dieudonne Dukuzumuremyi and Hatem Wasfy(Egypt). Event page (also in Japanese). One of the talks was about “How African students contribute to LibreOffce” – click here for the slides, and here’s a video of it:

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And some photos from the Japanese events:

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