Bernard John Poole has been an Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Education and Instructional Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, from 1996 to 2009. These tutorials for LibreOffice 5.x are designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers learn the suite of free productivity applications included in LibreOffice.
A step-by-step guide for new developers It is easy to be overwhelmed by the size and complexity of LibreOffice. The source is written in many different languages and formats — C, C++, Java, Bash, JavaScript, Python, Perl, SQL, Test, XML — and consist of roughly 102,000 files (excluding all localizations) with 36,000,000 lines of
LibreOffice 5.3 will be announced at the end of January 2017, with a large number of new features which are summarized on the release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing a third bug hunting session on Friday, December 9, and
LibreOffice uses a time-based release schedule, to produce the best quality free software. A time based release is one that does not wait for either features or bug fixes but is based (as much as possible) on time. This enforces discipline in introducing fixes, gives predictability, and allows more regular releasing. In
We’ve uploaded some more videos from the LibreOffice Conference in Brno – happy viewing! Improving usability: fixing symlink / hyperlink issues on Linux Graphic design with LibreOffice and LibreLogo Hidden gems in Draw / Impress Localization community in Taiwan: challenges Tools for Translators GenLang – new l10n tools, a vision
Information on the ODF standard and how to move your organization to ODF-compliant document solutions The document has been forked in a textual format (Pandoc’s Markdown) by Paolo Dongilli, to keep track of versions and changes, correct typos, add new content and easily fork it for localization purposes. It is available on GitHub: https://github.com/paolodongilli/ODF-Guidance.
