Now that the LibreOffice Conference has finished, we’re back to our regular contributor interviews. This week it’s the turn of Regina Henschel who helps LibreOffice users by answering questions, testing new features and working on bug reports.
What is your IRC nickname / location / social media page?
I live in Dortmund (Germany). You can best contact me via the mailing lists.…
Brno, September 7, 2016 – The Document Foundation (TDF) has celebrated the opening session of LibOCon with the announcement of LibreOffice 5.2.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.2 family.
LibOCon is a showcase of the project activity, and will feature over 60 talks in three days, covering development, QA, localization, ODF, marketing, community and documentation, a business session in Czech focused on large deployments of LibreOffice, and a meeting of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA).…
Xisco Fauli, a Spanish LibreOffice developer working in Madrid as a Quality Assurance (QA) specialist, will be a consultant for The Document Foundation effective from September 1st, as QA Engineer.
Xisco got a bachelor’s degree in system data processing at the Polytechnic University of València in 2011. Since then, he has worked for four years as a QA Engineer for a company providing Digital TV solutions, where he has focused mainly on testing software for PCs and portable devices.…
In this week’s interview, we talk to Susobhan Ghosh, who got involved in the project earlier this year and has been working on tasks for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
First off, what’s your IRC nickname, nationality and blog URL?
Where are you currently based, and do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just code in your spare time?…
LibreOffice has a time-based release schedule (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan), with a major announcement every six months: early February, and early August. A time-based release schedule is predictable, and as such makes it easier to plan large deployments and subsequent updates.
On the other hand, a major announcement every six months translates to a “project that never sleeps”.…
LibreOffice Conference Schedule has been published on the conference website, at the following address:
http://conference.libreoffice.org/2016/the-program/.
Organizers are still finalizing the schedule of the business session on Friday morning, which will be held in Czech and English.
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