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Second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 5.3

noun_83830_ccLibreOffice 5.3 will be announced at the end of January 2017, with a large number ofĀ new features which are summarized on theĀ release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3. In order toĀ find, report and triageĀ bugs, the QA team is organizing a secondĀ bug hunting session on Friday, November 25, 2016. Tests will be performed on the BetaĀ version of LibreOffice 5.3, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/) a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), MacOS and Windows, and willĀ run in parallel withĀ theĀ production version.

Mentors will be available on November 25, 2016, from 8AM UTC to 10PMĀ UTC. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also onĀ other days, as the builds of this particular Beta release (LibreOffice 5.3.0 Beta1) will be available until mid December.

During the day there will be twoĀ dedicated sessions: the first to chase bugs on the main LibreOffice modules between 3PM UTCĀ and 5PMĀ UTC, and the second to test a set of the top 7Ā features between 5PM UTCĀ and 7PMĀ UTC. All details of theĀ second bug hunting sessionĀ are available on theĀ specific wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/5.3.0Beta1.

During theĀ dedicated sessions, we will concentrate all efforts toĀ chase and reproduceĀ the bugs, in order toĀ confirm and file themĀ in a moreĀ comprehensive way. Of course, the more comprehensive will be the bug report, the easier will be for the developers to solve the bugs in time for the final release.

LibreOffice Conference 2016: First videos online

Here at The Document Foundation we’ve been really busy since the LibreOffice Conference in September, running our Community Weeks and the Month of LibreOffice. But finally we’ve started putting videos online from presentations at the conference.

Don’t miss this opening presentation, the State of the Project, and then scroll down for more talks and demos.

 

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LibreOffice in Guarani

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By Prof. Alcides Torres
Translation: Huber Melli

LibreOffice would be the first office suite translated to GuaranĆ­, a native language from South America spoken by more than 6 million people in this sub-continent. Language is a fundamental tool though which we not only structure, process and understand the world around us, but also communicate and pass information from one generation to the next.

The access to technological tools is a highly significant implement for the development of the peoples. To be able to access information and tools in your mother tongue has a great impact in peopleā€™s lives and growth because it facilitates a more profound understanding of them, all of which open a way to a better appropriation and usage.
There is no language unable to grow along with its speakers, in order to express the constantly changing world and the progress of science and technology. What does exist is the prejudice and exclusion.

In a country with a vast majority of GuaranĆ­ speakers suffering the existent diglossia, by which Spanish is preferred by the Public administration, service providers, even for the Stateā€™s education policies, the translation of LibreOffice to GuaranĆ­ represents a turning point. First, because it shatters the bias that Native American languages cannot access areas of technology and Internet. And second, because it will contribute to the GuaranĆ­Ā“s reassessment, to raise the self-esteem of populations that for decades were limited in their capacity to grow and self-develop, as a consequence of a deficient education, using a language that were not even theirs, providing information irrelevant and disconnected to their reality.

 

Second ever LibreOffice Hackfest in Italy, with 15 participants

Development mentor Jan Iversen writes:

“Italy has a very big LibreOffice community but with only a few developers, so when LibreItalia had its yearly conference this weekend, we tried to start changing the situation. The second hackfest in Italy was only around four hours ā€“ but the time was well spent.

After a short introduction from Marina (Chairwoman of The Document Foundation) our development mentor gave a presentation, explaining how everybody can help LibreOffice. Slides were in Italian, the talk was in English, and comments were in Spanish.

There were in total 15 people including power users, contributors, source code committers and certified developers ā€“ a broad range to address. There was less interest in getting a build done, and much more interest in two other aspects:

  • How can we grow a local development community, ranging from people helping QA to “hard-core” developers?
  • The ladder to enter development is too high, so what can we do do make development attractive for new people?

Jan presented our toolbox, which is actually quite extensive. Opengrok surprised everybody. None of the fast developer notebooks could match the fast search times. A search for “jani” took 15ms and was called cheating, so we did another search for “Ponzo” which took just 16ms.

The online editing feature in Gerrit made even the skilled developers look up. We had a longer discussion about when not to use this feature, but everybody saw the clear advantage.

In the end, there was only one question: when do we have a full two-day Hackfest? Osvaldo promised to arrange one in his University during the first quarter of 2017.

No visit to Italy is complete without pizza. LibreItalia arranged dinner in a nice pizza restaurant (sorry, not the typical European style, but real pizza!). It was amazing to feel and see, how big the hospitality is there, and how eager people were to learn.

So in all, a big thank you to LibreItalia for giving me this chance to promote developers. I am sure it will not be last time I visit Italy.”

The Month of LibreOffice, November 2016: One week in

Last week we started a new Month of LibreOffice, where contributors to the project can win badges for their work. Every bit of help, whether in coding, documentation, QA, translations or user support, is really appreciated! So far we’ve awarded 89 badges across various teams.

Want to get one for yourself? Just see this page for how to get involved, and then have your name alongside a badge you can use on your blog, social media, or indeed anywhere else you want to show it off!

Meanwhile, at the moment only two barnstars have been awarded ā€“ so let’s bump that number up! If there’s anyone in the LibreOffice community you want to thank for their efforts, just email barnstars@libreoffice.org with their name and what they did, and we’ll add them to the page. So get in touch!

FOSDEM Call for Papers: Open Document Editors DevRoom

fosdemFOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2017, it will be held on Saturday, February 4, and Sunday, February 5.

As usual, the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be jointly organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, on Saturday, February 4, in room 4.401 in Building K (from 10:30AM to 6:30PM). The shared devroom gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related developments and innovations.

We are now inviting proposals for talks about Open Document Editors or the ODF document format, on topics such as code, extensions, localization, QA, UX, tools and adoption related cases. This is a unique opportunity to show new ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.

Length of talks should be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes, as we would like to have questions after each presentation, and to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule. Exceptions must be explicitly requested and justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you request.

All submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17.

While filing your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored at Pentabarf).

To submit your talk, click on ā€œCreate Eventā€, then make sure to select the ā€œOpen Document Editorsā€ devroom as the ā€œTrackā€. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all.

If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you donā€™t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact ode-devroom-manager@fosdem.org.

The deadline is Monday, December 5th, 2016. Accepted speakers will be notified by Sunday, December 11th, 2016. The DevRoom schedule will be published on the same day.

RecordingĀ Permission

The talks in the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too.

In the ā€œSubmission notesā€ field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 or CC-BY-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: ā€œIf my speech is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, Nameā€.

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