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LibreOffice monthly recap: April 2018

Lots of things are happening in the LibreOffice community – in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. Here’s a summary of news and updates in April… LibreOffice 6.0.3 was released on April 3. It includes over 70 bug and regression fixes – see the release announcement for more details. From April 6 – 8, we had a LibreOffice community meeting and Hackfest in Hamburg. There were around 45 participants, who split into two groups. One group focused on a hackfest – a joint coding session. At the same time, a meeting of the German-speaking LibreOffice community took place. See here for the results of the hackfest, and what we discussed. We talked to Edmund Laugasson from the Estonian LibreOffice community about his efforts to promote free and open source software in his country. “ODF is quite widely used in Estonia – for instance, educational institutions usually have LibreOffice installed, along with some local authorities.” – Full interview here. Preparation began for the Month of LibreOffice, May 2018 – crediting contributions all across the project. If you’re a proud user of LibreOffice and would like to join our community, get involved! (We’ll even send you a cool sticker pack.)

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Coming up on April 27: First Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.1

LibreOffice 6.1 is due to be released in mid August 2018, with many new features (those already implemented are summarized on the release notes page, with much more still to come). In order to find, report and triage bugs, the Quality Assurance (QA) community is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.1 on Friday, April 27, 2018. All details are available on the specific wiki page. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the tests during the First Bug Hunting Session will be performed on the first Alpha version of LibreOffice 6.1, which will be available on the pre-releases server on the day of the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be run in parallel with the production version – so you can test without affecting your existing stable installation. Mentors will be available on April 27th 2018, from 8AM UTC to 8PM UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel: #libreoffice-qa (connect via webchat) and its Telegram bridge. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Alpha release (LibreOffice 6.1.0 Alpha1) will be available until the end

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LibreOffice Conference attendee report: Brett Cornwall

Brett helps out with TDF’s infrastructure, and joined us at our recent LibreOffice Conference in Rome. Here’s what he had to say about the event – and a couple of photos too! 2017’s LibreOffice conference marked my first visit outside of the United States. I arrived some days before the conference so that I might explore a city that has contributed so much to western culture. Both the city’s cleanliness and transportation impressed me – I’m used to New York City’s standard of cleanliness. A genuine surprise smacked me when I noticed that pedestrians have authority over cars on smaller streets; whereas pedestrians find a window in which to cross between cars in NYC, Rome pedestrians are expected to strut their tender meat-bags into moving traffic and expect cars to stop for them. While the practice of assertion is easy enough to pick up, I can’t help but wonder whether this is a significant cause of accidents. I was ill-prepared for long walks down cobblestone pathways: I’ve experienced flat pavement for long enough that I didn’t even think that the city would be plastered in cobblestone. Perhaps this is why women wear more practical footwear in Rome than in the

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Donations: questions and answers

The Document Foundation (TDF) thrives thanks to our strong, vivid and worldwide community of end-users, contributors and enterprises, supporting our efforts with contributions of time and money. Thanks to these donations, we are able to work together on the idea of the best independent free office suite. So thank you very much, thanks to everyone – together you have made our dream of a strong and independent foundation come true! Using these donations, TDF can: maintain and improve its infrastructure; pay a team to take care of daily activities and several strategic tasks; manage a budget for the community and marketing based activities; and tender specific tasks. Management of donations is not always as smooth as we would like, for a number of different issues which we will try to explain in this document. Cost of donations Unfortunately, donations do not come for free, as we have to rely on third parties such as credit card processors and PayPal, which take a small percentage from every amount for their services. We are also charged for currency conversion, if the donation is not in Euros. In general, donations lower than the minimum suggested amount of 5 Euro are more expensive to

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Community Week: Design – recent changes, and communication

On Monday we talked to Heiko Tietze who is LibreOffice’s user experience (UX) mentor, and today we’re going to look at some changes that the Design team has implemented in recent releases of the suite. You can see how new features are implemented to make them accessible without drastically changing the overall design of the software. Single toolbar mode In LibreOffice 5.2, Writer and Calc received new single toolbar modes. These provide alternatives to the default double toolbar configuration, and save screen space while helping users to really focus on their work. Click here to see the initial discussion and mockups that led to this design change. Currency drop-down button Here’s an example of a user interface change that barely takes up any screen space, but has a big impact on overall usability. Before LibreOffice 5.2, a single toolbar button was available for setting a currency format, but this button now has a drop-down menu to change between currencies. This only adds a few pixels on to the width of the toolbar, but it means users can quickly switch currencies without having to go into the menus. Fine-tuning control points It’s often useful to add multiple ways to achieve something,

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Community Weeks: Design – meet the team

We now come to our final Community Week for October 2016, and this time we’re talking to the Design team. Design is an essential aspect of LibreOffice development, and it’s sometimes tough to find the right balance: some users want the interface to change rapidly with each release, whereas others are more conservative and prefer an incremental approach. When new features are added to LibreOffice, they must be made accessible and easy to find, but not interfere with the workflow of experienced users. The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, has a dedicated user experience mentor: Heiko Tietze. He works with the Design team to research and implement user interface improvements, trying to take into account the needs and wishes of as many users as possible. We caught up with Heiko to see what he’s working on at the moment… What is your role in the Design team? I’m the user experience (UX) mentor and my role is to support and facilitate work on the user interface (UI) of LibreOffice – how it looks and behaves. This includes giving my advice on Bugzilla tickets with the needsUXEval keyword, conducting surveys and quick polls, working on and publishing proposals on

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