Advent Resource #17: Renewed QA Wiki Page

qaQuality Assurance wiki page has been reorganized and updated, and provides a number of resources for people willing to commit their time improving the quality of LibreOffice.

As explained on the Get Involved in QA wiki page: “QA is short for Quality Assurance. QA identifies problems in our software, confirms problems reported by users, and validates proposed fixes and enhancements so each new version of LibreOffice is more reliable and robust and provides our users with a satisfying tool”.…

Advent Resource #16: Two Academic Research about LibreOffice

skovdeJonas Gamalielsson and Björn Lundell, of the University of Skövde in Sweden, have extensively studied the LibreOffice project. They have published two different papers in 2012 and 2014, which represent a very interesting reading.

Gamalielsson J. – Lundell B., Long-Term Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities beyond a Fork: A Case Study of LibreOffice, in: Hammouda I.…

Advent Resource #15: Open Document Format website

odfThe Open Document Format website is managed by the OpenDoc Society. It is another useful resource for ODF advocates and especially for developers, as it offers an overview of dozens of libraries that make it easy to access content stored in Open Document Format.

The OpenDoc Society is also the organization behind ODF Plugfests, an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard.…

Advent Resource #14: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

odf-tcThe website of the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications Technical Committee is a fundamental resource for all people advocating the standard or deploying it within organizations of any size.

The home page provides the following contents: Announcements from the ODF TC, Overview of the standard document format, ODF TC subcommittees,
TC Liaisons, TC Tools and Approved Publications, Technical Work Produced by the Committee, External Resources, and Mailing Lists and Comments.…

LibreOffice has a new Extensions & Templates website

Berlin, December 14, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces the new Extensions & Templates website, which offers an improved user experience to both developers and end users: https://extensions.libreoffice.org. The resource is now based on the latest version of the Plone open source Content Management System, and has been both coordinated and developed by Andreas Mantke, deputy member of the board at The Document Foundation.…

Advent Resource #13: Oasis Open Document Essentials

odf-essentialsOASIS OpenDocument Essentials is a comprehensive book about the Open Document Format (ODF), published by O’Reilly under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The book covers the following topics: the Open Document Format; the meta.xml, styles.xml, settings.xml, and content.xml Files; Text Document Basics; Text Documents, Advanced; Spreadsheets; Drawings; Presentations; and Charts.

The book helps to understand how to extract data from Open Document files or how to convert data to Open Document Format, or simply find out how the format works.…