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Quality 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”.

Contacts of the QA Team are available here.

Jonas 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. – Lundell B. – Mikkonen T. – Scacchi W., (EDS) Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability. OSS 2012. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 378, Pages 29-47, 2012, Springer, Berlin – Heidelberg

Gamalielsson J., Lundell B., Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has the LibreOffice project evolved?, in: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 89, Pages 128-145, 2014, Elsevier, Amsterdam

The 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. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by running scenario-based tests in a hands-on lab and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.

The 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.

In addition, the home page provides links to the ODF TC Charter, Sun’s IPR Statement, FAQs, List of ODF TC Members, Email and Comment Archives, Results of Ballots, and Documents.

OASIS 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.