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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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Do something awesome! Join the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022

Love LibreOffice? ❤️ You’re not alone – tens of millions of people use the software every day. And hundreds of people around the world collaborate to improve the suite, update its documentation and help to spread the word. Join them!

In the coming four weeks, we’d love it if you get involved, join our community, and have fun. You can build up valuable skills for a future career – and you don’t need to be a programmer. There are many ways to help make LibreOffice awesome, as we’ll see in a moment.

And best of all: everyone who contributes to LibreOffice in the next four weeks can claim a cool sticker pack, and has the chance to win extra LibreOffice merchandise such as mugs, hoodies, T-shirts, rucksacks and more (we’ll choose 10 participants at random at the end):

How to take part

So, let’s get started! There are many ways you can help out – and as mentioned, you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a…

  • Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers.
  • First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 7.4.2”.
  • Drum Beater, spreading the word: tell everyone about LibreOffice on Twitter or Mastodon! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.
  • Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.
  • Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

We’ll be updating this page every few days with usernames across our various services, as people contribute. So dive in, get involved and help make LibreOffice better for millions of people around the world – and enjoy your sticker pack at the end as thanks from us! And who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to win bonus merch as well…

Let’s go! We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog and our Mastodon and Twitter accounts over the next four weeks – stay tuned!

LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2022: The results

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This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more student developers into free and open source software development. Two projects were finished successfully. Students and mentors enjoyed the time, and here we present some of the achievements, which should make their way into LibreOffice 7.5 in early February 2023!

You can experiment with the new features by using daily builds and report any problems in our bug tracker.

VBA Macros – Tests and missing APIs by Hannah Meeks

Mentors: Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora), Thorsten Behrens (allotropia)

Hannah worked on an area that is important for power users dealing with Microsoft documents. Her work both improves VBA compatibility in LibreOffice and makes it easier to add missing functionality in the future.

Learn more about the VBA Macros improvements in the final report.

Extend Z compressed graphic format support by Paris Oplopoios

Mentors: Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora)

Paris got off to a flying start with the originally defined goal, which was to add import functionality for Z compressed EMF and WMF graphics and thus to improve compatibility with Microsoft documents. In the end, he also implemented exporting of WMZ, EMZ and SVGZ graphics, replaced homegrown PNG export code with one that uses libpng and added automated tests for PNG export in addition to tests for the Z compressed formats.

Learn more about the graphics improvements in the final report.

Wrapping up

Many thanks to all contributors who spent their summer time improving LibreOffice. You are awesome! And special thanks also to the mentors who always put so much love and energy into these tasks. That’s what makes LibreOffice rock.

Now we are looking forward to next year’s GSoC. If you are interested, why not prepare early? Learn more at out wiki page where some ideas are listed.

Participating in GSoC is a great way to build your skills, and show future employers what you’re capable of!

LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: Localisation, Writer, Calc, Sparklines, Web Assembly and more

Check out this next batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

State of Korea in LibreOffice and promoting future plans, with DaeHyun Sung

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Using resolution independent positions for writer’s screen-rendering of text, with Caolán McNamara

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Content controls in Writer, with Miklos Vajna

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Improving Structured Document Text (SDT) support in Writer, with Vasily Melenchuk

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Improving LibreOffice Calc, with Balázs Varga

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Sparklines and chart data tables – new features in Calc, with Tomaž Vajngerl

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Reducing Build Time (2022), with Luboš Luňák

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News from the WASM front – Calc and headless operations, with Thorsten Behrens and Balázs Varga

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Another batch of videos from LibreOffice Conference 2022: Features, API, extensions, Jenkins and continuous integration (CI)

More talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Check out the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

Using graph theory, let’s look at the addition, modification, and removal of features in all versions of LibreOffice, with Koji Annoura

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Designing better API, with Luboš Luňák

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Maintaining a complex OpenOffice/LibreOffice Java extension over 15 year, with Thorsten Behrens and Björn Ranft

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Jenkins Goes for a Kill, with Stephan Bergmann

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LibreOffice continuous integration improvements and suggestions, with Thorsten Behrens

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New Liaison role for the Native Language Communities

Sophie Gautier writes…

Hi all,

We are launching a new 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.

My hope is also that TDF will be able to bring more help, if it is informed of the achievements, difficulties, wishes and needs locally.

The role is called Liaison and should be carried by one volunteer chosen by the local community, or self represented if there is no local community yet.

To know more about Liaison, please read this page. This is a first process that I’d like to enhance with the help of the Liaison members.

To discuss about the role and (in the future) with other Liaison members, join our discussion forum.

Don’t be shy, introduce yourself and tell us all 😄

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