On April 29th, the City of Munich in southern Germany held an event called MucGov17. Subtitled “Digital city – ideas, projects and apps”, it provided an opportunity for people involved with Munich’s IT infrastructure to get together, exchange ideas, and come up with new projects. The Document Foundation (TDF) attended and took part in various sessions.…
04 May 2017
Tender to implement HSQLDB binary format import in LibreOffice (#201705-03)
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
implement support for importing HSQLDB binary data
to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement the following:
In order to remove the legacy Java/HSQLDB database completely, and move fully to Firebird in LibreOffice 5.4, it is necessary to be able to import old document data with high fidelity from the HSQLDB binary file format, which we have used (for performance reasons) inside so many of our existing ODB files.…
03 May 2017
Tender to deprecate LibreOffice’s SVG filter in favour of SVGIO (#201705-02)
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
deprecate the SVG filter used by LibreOffice in favor of SVGIO
to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement the following:
- Remove the old SVG import filter code (used for importing documents)
- Switch all SVG handling to the SVGIO filter (used when inserting images into a file)
- As a consequence, simplify the codebase and save around 2-3,000 lines of code
Required skills
- Extensive knowledge of C++
- Experience working on the LibreOffice source code
- Knowledge of the SVG image format
We exclusively use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.…
02 May 2017
Video interview: Michael Meeks, LibreOffice developer
Michael Meeks is a veteran LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org) developer. We talk to him about how the project has progressed over the years, and the technology behind LibreOffice Online, the cloud version of the suite.
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02 May 2017
Tender to improve image handling in LibreOffice (#201705-01)
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to
improve and fix issues with image handling in LibreOffice
to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement the following:
- Use a robust and hard lifecycle mechanism (eg smart reference count) for every reference to an image
- Propagate this lifecycle mechanism through filters and UNO APIs
- Copy all (compressed) image streams out of document storages into an on-disk cache – to avoid data loss on file movement
- Improve image detail reading and storage, to avoid reading a whole JPEG or PNG just to work out its pixel size and discard/swap-out the result
- Reduce excessive swap-in and out thrash
- ideally – but non-essentially cleanup the “graphics cache size” and manage caching of images in a more intelligent way
Required skills
- Extensive knowledge of C++
- Experience working on the LibreOffice source code
We exclusively use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the the Mozilla Public License v2.0.…
01 May 2017
The May 2017 Month of LibreOffice begins!
Yes, a new Month of LibreOffice begins today, crediting contributions all across the project. This time we’re giving away real printed stickers for your laptop, desktop PC or other kit! If you help the LibreOffice community in various ways, we’ll add your name to a wiki page and then, at the end of the month, you’ll be able to claim your sticker.…