If you thought we were all back to sleep after the release of LibreOffice 3.3, think again! The Steering Committee is at work and today we wanted to publish our opinion on a touchy subject, the support of OOXML in LibreOffice. LibreOffice offers the ability to export documents in the Microsoft Office formats, and these include the ones of MS Office 2007 and 2010.…
27 Jan 2011
Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives
Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives
PortableApps.com and The Document Foundation are proud to announce the immediate availability of LibreOffice Portable 3.3, a portable version of the free productivity suite for Windows.
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26 Jan 2011
Release Party in Munich
The German LibreOffice Community will celebrate a LibreOffice 3.3 Release-Party on Friday, February 11th, in Munich. More details on this German wiki page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePartyMUC
…25 Jan 2011
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
The Internet, January 25, 2011 – The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project. (more…)
22 Jan 2011
Hassles and woes – and how to solve them
Dear Community,
the last days, we have seen long discussions, people asking about processes and directions, and the role of the Steering Committee was unclear to some Community members. I do not want to discuss the issues in detail, I even don’t want to mention them by name, but I felt it was time to bring some personal thoughts into them. The following paragraphs are just my personal thoughts and not an official statement of the Steering Committee, but I hope they help all of us to work on our common mission. (more…)
21 Jan 2011
Developer interview: Robert Nagy
Again a new story in our series of developer interviews.
We started this serie to show how others got involved, and have choosen the work they like to contribute to LibreOffice.
In this inteview someone who is, in his own words, a normal guy, and doesn’t expect that users will experience much improvements from his contributions. Yet his work builds bridges between communities. So sooner rather than later, users will benefit…
Programming is about people: so please ! tell us a bit about yourself:
I am Robert Nagy (rnagy on IRC) and I am just a 24 year old regular everyday normal guy living in Budapest, Hungary with my lovely girlfriend Zsofia and our dog Kiki.
Any chance you can remember what was your very first program ?
I don’t really remember but it was back in high school on a CS class.
What do you do when you’re not hacking on LibreOffice ?
I am working on OpenBSD for fun and profit, doing software development and system administration for companies based in Hungary and all over the world.