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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom at FOSDEM 2023: Call for Papers

After two virtual events, FOSDEM 2023 will be in person, taking place on Saturday, February 4, and Sunday, February 5. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, February 4, from 3PM to 7PM.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

December 11: Submission deadline
December 13: Announcement of selected talks
December 15: Publication of DevRoom schedule

We might update this call for papers with further details, as soon as we receive them from FOSDEM organizers. Please check TDF blog and social media channels on a regular basis.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are inviting proposals for talks about LibreOffice Technology, including ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, documentation, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy. Please keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM.

In order to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule, the length of talks will be limited to a maximum of 15 or 20 minutes, including questions, according to the number of submissions.

TALK SUBMISSIONS

All talk submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23

While filing the 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 in Pentabarf).

To submit your talk, click on “Create Event” and select the “LibreOffice Technology” DevRoom as the “Track”. 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 don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact italo at libreoffice.org for help.

CONTACTS

Italo Vignoli: italo at libreoffice.org
Mike Saunders: mike.saunders at documentfoundation.org

Month of LibreOffice, November 2022 – First week results!

A week ago, we started the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022. Anyone who contributes to our projects will get a cool sticker pack – and has a chance to win more merch! So far, over 100 people have joined in – here are their names/usernames:

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos afit5 ajlittoz Alain Romedenne Alessandro Alex Pakhotin Alex Thurgood Amarjargal Gundjalam Annabelle Wübbelsmann Anupam Malhotra Aron Budea Asier Sarasua Garmendia Ayhan YALÇINSOY bantoniof Baurzhan Muftakhidinov Bayram Çiçek Benyamin Limanto Bogdan B Chollot Christian Kühl cpb csongor Daniel Lohmann David Gilbert David Lynch Dieter Dimitris Spingos EarnestAl Elisabetta Manuele Emanuele Goldoni Eyal Rozenberg floris_v Francisco.ruiz Grantler HanV Hasan Yıldız Henner Drewes Hrbrgr jan d Javier Salamanca JCR Jeff Fortin Tam jfn Jim Raykowski JohnSUN Jorge Teixeira José G Moya Y Julien Nabet jun meguro Justin L Jürgen Kirsten KamilLanda Karl Morten Ramberg karolus kees538 Kevin Suo KingAwiin Kolbjørn Stuestøl Kovács Viktor LeroyG Lupp m.a.riosv Marco Pinto Martin Sourada Maxim Monastirsky Menoo Michael H Michael Wolf Miloš Šrámek Nalini Dash offtkp Olaf Guse Paul D. Mirowsky Peter Schofield Philip Jackson Pierre Fortin Prcek Quentin PAGÈS raal Radish Rafael Lima Rainer Bielefeld Ratslinger Regina Henschel RegisPerdreau Robert Großkopf Roman Kuznetsov Sahil Butola Samson B ScootrKDEbug Richards Secară Cristian serval2412 Shinji Enoki sokol92 Stanislav Horáček Stephen Heumann Stevefanning Strepon sujith taichi Telesto Theppitak Karoonboonyanan TorrAB TXDon V Stuart Foote Villeroy Wanderer William Friedman Ximena Alcaman Zizi64 Μιχάλης Ζήσης @Bassogna @hgucpardus @livreeaberto @mattroyal @MichlFranken @stevepdp @vleeth_

Don’t see your name there? Click here to join in!

LibreOffice Conference 2022: Impressions from an attendee (and speaker!)

Regina Henschel writes:

Since the LibreOffice Conference 2022 was a “hybrid” conference, I decided to travel to Milan. These were exciting days. I gave two presentations: “Introduction to the ‘Limo Stretch’ feature of shapes” and “Creating ‘fontwork’ geometries beyond the predefined shapes”. The first one is addressed at developers, whereas the second one is suitable for everyone. You find the slides and additional material here and here. Videos of my talks are below.

It was important for me to gain insights into other areas. The Community Meetings on Wednesday introduced me to the problems that LibreOffice communities have in several regions of the world, along with solutions and success stories from others. During the conference, I heard a lot about language-specific aspects of LibreOffice. Do you have ever think about the way a piece of text in Arabic is justified? Or noticed what special problems occur with writing directions top-to-bottom and then right-to-left as used in Japanese?

Last but not least, I enjoyed personally meeting community members. Having lunch together and the wonderful pasta community dinner were opportunities to get to know each other, beyond code review, Bugzilla and mailing lists. I hope to meet you all again at next LibreOffice Conference.

Thanks to Regina for attending and giving her presentations! And, of course, all her work in our community 😊 Here are videos of her talks at the conference:

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LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • Throughout October, we edited and uploaded videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2022. So far, there are 36 videos from talks and presentations – with more to come! Here’s the playlist:

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  • Our documentation team released an updated edition of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 (revision 1) with new contents on sparklines and conditional formatting. Typos and last minute mistakes and formatting were also fixed in this release. Great work!

  • Meanwhile, we released LibreOffice 7.4.2, the second minor update to the 7.4 branch. All users are recommended to update, for maximum reliability and security.

  • Dominique Welt, Ph.D. Candidate and instructor at McGill University, told us about a presentation: “Using LibreOffice Base to Teach Relational Database Management”.

  • On October 20, TDF announced the availability of LibreOffice for Windows on the Microsoft Store, to support end users who want to get their desktop software from Microsoft’s own sales channel. There’s a convenience fee of €4.59, which will be invested to further support development of the LibreOffice project. But the suite will remain free of charge to download from the main website.

  • Finally, we launched a new “Liason” role in the Native Language Communities. This role aims to improve the communication between the global projects, The Document Foundation and the local communities. This communication should be directed in two ways: keep local communities informed on what is happening internationally, and keep the international community informed of what is achieved by the local communities. If you’re interested, we look forward to hearing from you 😊

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!

Announcement of LibreOffice 7.3.7 Community

Berlin, November 3, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3.7 Community, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 7.3 family, which will be reaching soon the end of life, targeted to desktop productivity, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Users still using this version should start looking at the LibreOffice 7.4 family, now at 7.4.2, which has been extensively tested by millions of users worldwide.

End user support is provided by volunteers via email and online resources: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate

LibreOffice 7.3.7 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org

LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: DaaS, ScriptForge, FontWork, OpenDocument, Writer…

Here’s a new batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

An introduction to the “Documents as a Service” project, with Marco Marinello

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Is ScriptForge really a scam? With Jean-Pierre Ledure

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Introduction to the feature “limo-stretch” of shapes, with Regina Henschel

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Creating “Fontwork” geometries beyond the predefined shapes, with Regina Henschel

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News from the TDF OpenDocument Format Toolkit, with Svante Schubert

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Push LibreOffice Writer to its limits, and see how it behaves, with Gabriele Ponzo

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