In this week’s developer interview, we talk to Winfried Donkers, a Dutch coder who has been using LibreOffice (and its predecessors) for almost two decades, and today works on Calc.
Where are you based, and do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just code in your spare time?
I live in the Netherlands, in a small village in Zeeland, near the North Sea.…
In our next developer interview, we talk to Krishna Keshav, a new contributor to the LibreOffice project who is currently working on Easy Hacks and plans to expand into more complex bug-fixes in the future…
Where are you based, and do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just code in your spare time?
I am currently pursuing my Bachelor’s in Computer Science and have just entered my final (fourth) year of study at PES College of Engineering.…
Following our previous interviews with Xisco Fauli and Muhammet Kara, we now speak to Laurent Balland-Poirier, who works in his spare time on Calc.
Where are you based, and do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just code in your spare time?
I’m teaching chemical engineering at Rouen University (Normandy, France), and doing some research in industrial process safety.…
The LibreOffice documentation team produces the guidebooks, reference materials, wiki and online help to support users of the software. We’re working hard to add all the exciting new features and functions of recent LibreOffice versions, to show how your office productivity can be improved thanks to the free office suite – and your help would be very much appreciated! Even if you can only spare 30 minutes each week, your contribution would be very valuable, and you’ll also get experience with a big-name open source project. Read on for the full details…
Effective from May 2016, Heiko Tietze has started working as a consultant to drive LibreOffice UX one step further.
Heiko has been one of the most active UX volunteers during the last few years, and has been instrumental in a rather large number of the user interface improvements since LibreOffice 4.4.
In addition, he has coordinated UX focused research, which has – amongst other results – led to the development of the human interface guidelines (HIG), and to incremental UI changes to menus and toolbars.…
A few weeks ago we talked to Muhammet Kara about his work on LibreOffice, and today we hear from Xisco Faulí, a Spanish developer who started with Easy Hacks to get familiar with the code…
Where are you based, and do you work for a LibreOffice-related company or just code in your spare time?
I live and work in Madrid, Spain, but originally I’m from Valencia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula.…