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1. The Document
   Foundation
   Italo Vignoli
   

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2. καλημέρα
   

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3. IANAD
   I am not a developer
   IAAOMGAYSNTAOM
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   I am an old marketing guy and you should never trust an old
   marketing guy
   

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4. LibreOffice
   

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6. Background
   July 19, 2000: Sun Announces an Open Source
   StarOffice
   October 13, 2000: OpenOffice.org Launched
   May 1, 2002: OpenOffice.org 1.0 Released
   October 20, 2005: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released
   October 2, 2007: Go-OO Announced
   October 13, 2008: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released
   January 27, 2010: Oracle Acquires Sun
   

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8. Ten Years After
   Ten years after the promise of a foundation ...
   “a foundation is a great idea... the time is not yet
   ripe... perhaps in three years”, etc.
   Patience is a virtue, but not an inexhaustible
   resource.
   Some truly fantastic “opportunities” for
   improvement
   Vendor neutrality / no copyright assignment barrier
   

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12. LibreOffice
    An idea – whose time has finally come ...
    A beautiful, Office suite we can be proud
    of (in due course) backed by a real, open
    community
    Shipping on Windows, Mac, GNU / Linux,
    *BSD, etc.
    ODF enables trivial migration with your
    data ...
    

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13. Vendor neutral, no code ownership
    aggregation
    A real Free Software / hackers project
    Volunteers + RedHat + Novell + Debian
    + Canonical + Google …
    FSF + OSI + boycott Novell support, etc.
    Freedesktop hosting
    LGPLv3+ / MPL for new code ...
    Doing It Right
    

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14. Last Eight Months
    September 28, 2010: The Document
    Foundation and LibreOffice 3.3 Beta
    are announced
    January 25, 2011: LibreOffice 3.3
    Stable Released
    End of May 2011: LibreOffice 3.4
    

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15. Target Groups
    

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17. Developers
    

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18. Contributors
    

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19. Easy Hacks
    removing pointless comments
    porting from Java → python and Java → C++
    kill 3 of 4 duplicate base64 impls
    remove dead / un-called code
    fix cppcheck warnings
    remove obsolete macros
    remove thousands of multi-second sleeps from QA tooling
    help thread the spreadsheet re-calculation engine
    write unit tests
    stop battery sapping timer leaks
    improve localization tooling
    

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20. Easy Hacks
    

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21. Completed Hacks
    

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22. What Users Can Do
    File good bugs
    Clear description: i.e. not “it doesn't work”
    Sample documents: should exist, and be minimal
    i.e. what is the smallest possible bug document
    Bug triage: hunting duplicates, poking “bad” bugs
    Help us out: we have some wonderful QA guys
    Test team
    Downloading and testing release candidates
    Using the latest snapshots, running QA testtool
    

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23. Build LibreOffice
    Find tasks to be solved
    Write code and patches that go into
    the software
    Experiment with and implement ideas
    Code
    

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25. Perform testing on the software
    Find and report bugs
    Review patches
    Help improve the quality of the
    software
    QA
    

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26. Translate the project in your local
    language
    Help the software reach out to a
    Non-English-Speaking audience too
    Localization
    

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27. Design buttons and icons
    Design web banners
    Design badges and stamps
    Make it just work, and look great, too!
    Graphics
    

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29. Write content for the website
    Help test and maintain the website
    and features
    Web
    

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30. Help write technical documentation
    for the project
    Write technical “how to’s” for all the
    member applications
    Write User Guides
    Documentation
    

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31. Marketing
    Learn how to compete with the best
    marketing organization in the
    software environment, without a
    budget
    Work with the oldest and less
    enjoyable marketing guy in the free
    software world
    

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32. What Are We Doing
    Code
    Bug fixing
    New features: SmartArt, improved interoperability
    GNU-make completion & cross-compile for Windows
    During-build unit tests & improved QA process
    Moving bottom up ... clean code → clean UI → features
    Polish ... making it usable and pretty: i.e. Ctrl-F to find
    Governance
    Incorporation: raised 100k Euro for setting the legal entity
    http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
    Membership process bootstrapping, ESC setup, etc.
    

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34. Attribution-NonCommercial-Sh
    areAlike CC BY-NC-SA
    

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