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LibreOffice: The History
(why "libre" is better than "open")
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it
Yogi Berra
First Thought
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Our Ten Years Heritage
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History of StarOffice
1984: Marco Börries, age 16, releases StarWriter for
the Zilog Z80, the Amstrad CPC and the Commodore
64, then ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC-1512
Later, the development of other two programs - Base
and Draw - turned StarWriter into StarOffice 1.0, for
DOS, IBM OS/2 and MS Windows
StarOffice 3.0 offered StarWriter, StarCalc, StarDraw,
StarImage and StarChart
1999: Sun Microsystems acquired the company,
copyright and trademark of StarOffice
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History of OpenOffice.org
July 19, 2000: Sun makes StarOffice source code
available for download with the objective of creating
an OSS development community and providing a free
and open alternative to MS Office
May 1st, 2002: OpenOffice.org 1.0 released with dual
license SISSL (Sun Industry Standard SW License)
and GNU LGPL
October 20, 2005: OpenOffice 2.0 released with single
license LGPL
October 2008: OpenOffice 3.0 released
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OOo Lean in 2000
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OOo Fat in 2005
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OOo Conference Lyon 2006
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MS Office Foundation ?
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Breaking the Bell
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The First Supper
Budapest, Sep 2, 2010
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your life
does not get better
by chance
it gets better by
CHANGE
Change to Improve
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September 28, 2010
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Kübler-Ross Change Curve
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50 Reasons against Change
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Curve of Managed Change
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Founding Principles
COPYLEFT LICENSE
NO CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT
MERITOCRACY
COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE
VENDOR INDEPENDENCE
The Document Foundation
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Copyleft License
Free
Software
Ethos
Fosters the Development Community
Protects a Fair Contribution Environment
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Allows to grow the community based
on collaboration
Excellent for very hard technical problems
where nobody can run alone
Excellent for catching up to existing proprietary
alternatives through sharing
Allows to reuse a lot of existing code as well
Great if you do not want proprietary forks
Copyleft is Awesome
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OOo source code was used by several derivatives:
Copyleft: Go-OO, OpenOffice Novell Edition,
RedOffice, NeoOffice, OxygenOffice Professional
and Jambo OpenOffice
Other: IBM Symphony (released in 2007 based on
the five years old SISSL - permissive - licensed
OOo 1.1, and then on OOo 3.0 based on a contract
with Sun which ignored the obligations of the LGPL)
CopyLeft @ OOo: What History Says
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Copyleft vs Permissive
Copyleft
Volunteers
Permissive
Corporations
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No Contributor Agreement
Drop CLA
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Meritocracy
if you want
something done
DO IT
you will lead and
be recognized
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Community Governance
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Vendor Independence
NO one
can control
more than 30%
of the votes
in any statutory
body of TDF
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The Document Foundation was born
TO PROMOTE free software
TO PROMOTE SW user freedom
TO PROMOTE document freedom
TO PROMOTE open standards
TO DEVELOP LibreOffice
The Document Foundation
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TDF: Strong, Stable, Enduring
Incorporated in Berlin as German Stiftung
Provides the legal framework for the community work
Membership element incorporated into legally binding
statutes
Collects donations, holds domain names, trademarks
and other community assets
Annual budget (2013): about 300.000 € excluding AB
fees
Administrative setup completed, all administrative
work done by volunteers, no paid consultants
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Board of Directors
MEMBERS
Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger
Olivier Hallot
Caolán McNamara
Michael Meeks
Charles Schulz
Italo Vignoli
DEPUTIES
Jesús Corrius
Andreas Mantke
Björn Michaelsen
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Membership Committee
MEMBERS
Sophie Gauthier
Cor Nouws
Eike Rathke
Fridrich Štrba
Jean Weber
DEPUTIES
Leif Lodahl
Simon Phipps
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Engineering Steering Committee
Ahmad H. Al-Harthi (MOTAH)
Stefan Bergman (RedHat)
René Engelhard (Debian)
Joel Madero (independent)
Mirek Mazel (independent)
Lionel Elie Mamane (indep.)
Eilidh McAdam (Lanedo)
Caolán McNamara (RedHat)
Michael Meeks (SUSE)
Björn Michaelsen (Canonical)
Petr Mladek (SUSE)
Markus Mohrhard (indep.)
David Tardon (RedHat)
Norbert Thiebaud (indep.)
Andras Timar (SUSE)
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Advisory Board
John Sullivan, FSF
Thomas Krumbein, FrODeV
Jeremy Allison, Google
Dirk Hohndel, Intel
Martyn Russell, Lanedo
Christian Schaller, RedHat
Bdale Garbee, SPI
Alan Clark, SUSE
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Affiliations
OSI - Open Source Initiative
OIN - Open Invention Network
OASIS - Organization for the
Advancement of Structured
Information Standards
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Subverting the Paradigm
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Teams and Collaboration
Users
Development
QA
L10n
Documentation
Daily
Build
Beta/RC
Build
Last RC
==
Final
Tinderbox
TDF/Wiki
GIT
Bugzilla
Pootle
Mailing list
IRC
Marketing
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LibOCon Berlin 2012
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LibreOffice
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Writer
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Calc
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Graph
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Impress
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Draw
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Base
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Math
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No content
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LibreOffice: Standard for GNU/Linux
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Developers: TDF Main Asset
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"Rules for Revolutionaries"
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Growth of New Code Committers
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Cumulative Number of LibreOffice New Code Committers
New Hackers Old Hackers
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"The Amazing Easy Hacks"
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Huge Mentoring Effort
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Presentations
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Hackfests
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Pasta Hacking
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Number of Committers per Month
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New Hackers Old Hackers 12 Month Average
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LibreOffice Code Contributors
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Balanced Developers Community
Changesets by Company/Group
September 2011 (inner)
vs December 2012 (outer)
Volunteers SUSE
Red Hat OOo Code
Canonical ALTA
Lanedo Aentos
KACST Collabora
SIL TATA
Apache OO Bobiciel
IBM Nou & Off
Munich CodeThink
CodeWeavers Intel
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Diverse Developers Community (1)
Active Developers by Affiliation
September 2011 (inner)
vs December 2012 (outer)
Volunteers OOo Code
SUSE KACST
RedHat Lanedo
AOO Volunteers Canonical
Collabora IBM
Munich SIL
Aentos ALTA
Bobiciel CodeThink
CodeWeavers Intel
Nou & Off TATA
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Diverse Developers Community (2)
LibreOffice Developers with 100+ Commits
Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) Tor Lillqvist (SUSE)
Stephan Bergmann (RedHat) Michael Stahl (RedHat)
David Tardon (RedHat) Kohei Yoshida (SUSE)
Markus Mohrhard (Volunteer) Miklos Vajna (SUSE)
Luboš Luňák (SUSE) Noel Grandin (Volunteer)
Andras Timar (SUSE) Matúš Kukan (Volunteer)
Norbert Thiebaud (Volunteer) Michael Meeks (SUSE)
Rafael Dominguez (Volunteer) Eike Rathke (RedHat)
Julien Nabet (Volunteer) Takeshi Abe (Volunteer)
Fridrich Štrba (SUSE) Jan Holesovsky (SUSE)
Cédric Bosdonnat (SUSE) Noel Power (SUSE)
Ivan Timofeev (Volunteer) Thomas Arnhold (Volunteer)
Peter Foley (Volunteer) Lionel Elie Mamane (Volunteer)
Bjoern Michaelsen (Canonical) Artur Dorda (Volunteer)
Andrzej J.R. Hunt (Volunteer) Xisco Fauli (Volunteer)
David Ostrovsky (Volunteer) Thorsten Behrens (SUSE)
Zolnai Tamás (Volunteer)
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Newest Member of the Project
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Manuals in Arabic Language
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346 active users in Pootle
(translations.documentfoundation.org)
112 languages in Pootle
+ 4 languages maintained outside of Pootle
LibreOffice 4.0 has 109 UI languages,
and help packs in 58 languages
LibreOffice can be used in their native language
by more than 4 billion people worldwide
LibreOffice Localizations
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Development Process
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Gerrit Code Review
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Tinderboxes
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Automated Tests
Automated tests to prevent software problems
The objective is to spot problems before they hit
master
Tests are integrated into the development strategy
Small filter tests ensure that a fixed bug never
regresses again
Tests run whenever anybody builds LibreOffice and
are executed on Tinderboxes too
Nightly builds are available to execute tests on the
newest version
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Torture Tests on Documents
3.4.0 3.5.0 3.6.0 4.0.0
0
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60
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Count of Types of GNUmake Enabled Unit Tests
(each one runs a battery of tests)
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Ongoing Quality Process
Background Development Tools
Tinderboxes compile the code after each commit
Hackers can check development problems in real
time
Tinderboxes upload dailies for QA activities
Bibisect (Binary Bisect) help chasing regressions
Multiple office installs in a small package allow to
spot the commit that introduced the bug
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Bug Submission Assistant
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Bug Tracking & Management
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Test Marathons
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Removing Unused Methods
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Removing German Comments
3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4.0
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20.000
30.000
40.000
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Detected Lines of German Comments
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Paying Down Substantial Technical Debt
Reduced footprint of the software
Undertaken long awaited code renovation
Removed tens of thousands lines of dead code
Removed deprecated libraries
Translated many German comments to English
Many other code renovation actions
Completely new and substancially improved
build system, making builds much easier
Using 21st Century C++ constructs
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LibreOffice Release Roadmap
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Growth of Users Pinging for Updates
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LibreOffice New Unique IPs Pinging for Software Updates
Daily (left) & Cumulative Number (right) since February 2012
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LibreOffice Estimated Value
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City of Munich loves LibreOffice
After careful risk-assessment, the capital of Munich has
decided to migrate from OpenOffice to LibreOffice.
In favour of that decision, among others, was the greater
flexibility of the project regarding consumption of open source
licenses.
Beyond that, Munich wants to rely on large and vibrant
communities for any Open Source product it employs.
Kirsten Böge, head of public relations
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MimO loves LibreOffice
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Limerick loves LibreOffice
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Las Palmas loves LibreOffice
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Chicago Public Library loves LibreOffice
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Regione Umbria loves LibreOffice
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LibreOffice
New Features
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
New gradient / drop-shadow
to highlight Writer pages
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Color and line styles for the columns
and footnote separator lines
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Greek Characters mode
for bullets and numbering
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Redesigned Move/Copy Sheet dialog
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Named range as the data source
for Pivot Table
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Improved search toolbar opens
by hitting Ctrl+F
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Adding and removing color charts
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Improve HTML export with an image thumbnail
gallery of the slides on the contents page
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.4
Linux text-rendering improvements
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Better UI for Header and Footers handling
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
First ever built-in Grammar checker for English
(and a few other languages...)
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
New Hinting on Linux Libertine G
and Linux Biolinum G
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Multi Line input bar in Calc
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Unlimited conditional formatting
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Re-Designed Autofilter
popup window
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Support embedding Palettes and other property list types
(we could only embed palettes into Impress ODP thus far)
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Line chart smoothing upgraded to ODF1.2 standard
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
RTF
import
rewrite
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Import filter for MS Visio documents
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Import filter for MS Visio documents
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Import filter for MS Visio documents
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Toolbar improvements
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
The word count dialogue is now mode-less
and updates as you type
This feature is key for professional writers
like journalists and translators
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Improved color picker
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.5
Importing
PPTX
SmartArt
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Added Word Count to status bar
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Support for contextual spacing
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Label / Business Card Wizard
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Improved CSV export
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Support field items in cells
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Allow Sorting
from Autofilter
popup window
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Quickly allow pasting only text, value,
or formula from the context menu
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Support for color scales and data bars
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
More than 3 sort entries for data
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
10 new Impress
Master Pages
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Corel
import
filter
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
PDF Export with Watermark option
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New Feature: LibreOffice 3.6
Rulers are now much cleaner and more light-weight
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Range Comments (sponsored by OSBA)
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Allow extra word boundary characters
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Allow different header and footer on the first page
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
RTF: Drawing Object Import
4.0
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
RTF: Improved eg. Formulae
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
DOCX: Ink Annotation Import
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Support of CMIS Protocol
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Microsoft Publisher Import
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Arbitrary XML → Spreadsheet
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Conditional Formatting
Bars + Icons
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Stock Options Pricing Formulae
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Exporting of a single chart as image (PNG, JPG)
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Android
Remote
Control
for
Impress
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
New Template Selection UI
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
Style Previews in Drop Down Menu
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
New Widget
Layout Technique
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.0
LibreOffice Personas (shared with Firefox)
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New Feature: LibreOffice 4.1
Font Embedding
in ODF Documents
ODF
Contents
(ODP)
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Open Document Format
ISO/IEC Standard 26300
Driven and maintained by OASIS
Implemented to the latest version
Recognized by many governments
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Hybrid PDF Format
Standard ODF Format embedded in a Standard PDF Format
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Navigating the Project
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www.libreoffice.org/get-involved
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www.documentfoundation.org/contribution
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www.libreoffice.org/get-help
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Global Mailing List
[email protected] - announces
[email protected] - discussions
[email protected] - project coordination
[email protected] - users
[email protected] - localization
[email protected] - documentation
[email protected] - marketing
[email protected] - design
[email protected] - certification
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www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq
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www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/faq
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Development
http://planet.documentfoundation.org/
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html
#libreoffice-dev on freenode
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/
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www.libreoffice.org/developers-2
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www.documentfoundation.org/develop
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Git_For_LibreOffice_Developers
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_debug
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros
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Quality Assurance
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html
#libreoffice-dev on freenode
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Litmus
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA-FAQ
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Automated_Tests
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests
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Localization
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/L10n-f1630956.html
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/TipsTricksl10n
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www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Easy_hacks
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Production
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
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Resources for Documentation
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Documentation Workflow
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Design and User Interface
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Marketing
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Marketing-f1645224.html
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing
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wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing
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ask.libreoffice.org/questions
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Growing the Ecosystem
Educating enterprises about getting
professional support for LibreOffice
Certification program, to allow community
members to add value and make money
with LibreOffice
Help migrations from MS Office to
LibreOffice, based on professional support
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Certification Program
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LibreOffice 2020
THE JOURNEY HAS JUST BEGUN
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People who live in the past generally are
afraid to compete in the present.
I've got my faults, but living in the past is
not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson
Last Thought
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Credits
Thanks:
to the LibreOffice community at large
to Michael Meeks for statistics about developers and
development
to Joel Madero for coordinating QA and providing QA
statistics
to Marc Parè for many screenshots of new features
to all other developers and volunteers which I do not
remember but have provided additional information