LibreOffice & TDF

LibreOffice & TDF - Five Years of Success & What's up Next

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1. LibreOffice & TDF Five Years of Success & What's up Next @ULPGC / Las Palmas Hackfest 2016 Thorsten Behrens IT-Lead LibreOffice CIB software GmbH
2. Years 1990-2000
3. Years 2000-2010 LGPL v2.1
4. Years 2010-now CC-BY-SA 3.0
5. History of LibreOffice
6. History of LibreOffice 1985 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 StarWriter 1.0 StarOffice 5.2 OOo 638c OOo 1.0 OOo 1.1 OOo 1.1.4 OOo 2.0 OOo 2.1 OOo 2.2 OOo 2.3 OOo 2.4 OOo 3.0 OOo 3.1 OOo 3.2 OOo 3.3b OOo 3.3 OOo 3.4b AOO 3.4 AOO 4.0 Workplace 2.6 Symphony 1.0 Symphony 3.0 Go-oo 2.3.0 LO 3.3 LO 3.4 LO 3.5 LO 3.6 LO 4.0 LO 4.1 SO 6.0 SO 7.0 SO 8.0 SO 9.0 Oracle Open Office 3.3 ooo-build Timeline of major StarOffice derivatives LO 3.3b Neo 3.1.1 Neo 3.2 Neo 2013 Neo 3.3 Go-oo 3.1.0 2014 2015 AOO 4.1 LO 4.2 LO 4.3 Neo 2014 LO 4.4 LO 5.0 2013 Neo 2015 (c) 2013, CC0 David Gerard
7. What is LibreOffice?
8. Future of OpenSource Survey 2015
9. LibreOffice
10. OASIS: Open Document Format
11. ODF: Outlook
12. LibreOffice Versions 2 months 8 months master 3 weeks 2 months libreoffice-x-y 1 week 3 weeks libreoffice-x-y-z
13. Extensions & Scripting • C++ • Java • Python • StarBasic • soonish: Haskell • Wollmux • BundesGit • LibreOffice Does Print on Tuesday • Vimpressing LibreOffice https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=sdk-examples.git;a=summary
14. Why LibreOffice? LibreOffice is: • Platform-independent • Using Open Standards. • Avoids Vendor-Lockin • Has an independent governance, staffed by active contributors
15. Who is LibreOffice?
16. End users 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 140000 160000 180000 200000 0 10000000 20000000 30000000 40000000 50000000 60000000 70000000 80000000 New Active Users (Updating LibreOffice) Daily (left/grey bars) & Cumulative Number (right/green line) since Feb 2012
17. Developers Sep 10 Oct 10 Nov 10 Dec 10 Jan 11 Feb 11 Mar 11 Apr 11 May 11 Jun 11 Jul 11 Aug 11 Sep 11 Oct 11 Nov 11 Dec 11 Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12 Apr 12 May 12 Jun 12 Jul 12 Aug 12 Sep 12 Oct 12 Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13 Apr 13 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Sep 13 Ott 13 Nov 13 Dec 13 Jan 14 Feb 14 Mar 14 Apr 14 May 14 Jun 14 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Cumulative Number of LibreOffice Developers New Developers Old Developers
18. The Long Tail http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/01/07/waving-tdf-long-tail/ Clay Shirky, institutions vs. collaboration
19. Active Developers T op lines changed by employer CIB (Unknown) RedHat Collabora Peralex Canonical Assigned SIL Apache Volunteer Igalia Munich Nou & Off
20. The Document Foundation
21. Members of The Document Foundation
22. TDF Advisory Board
23. Pad: oitg.textbegruenung.de/6? TDF: Events Photo
24. Document Liberation Project • AbiWord • Adobe FreeHand • Apple Keynote • Corel Draw • Corel WordPerfect • Microsoft Publisher • Microsoft Visio • Microsoft Works • Several MacOS legacy formats • Several E-book formats
25. What's up Next?
26. Empowerment: Bugzilla
27. Empowerment: Build System We are now using: • Pure GNU make • One instance for the whole build • massive parallelisation • can generate IDE integration for kdevelop/Visual Studio Karl Fogel (author of “Producing Open Source Software”): “LibreOffice is now ridiculously easy to build!” https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnLinux#Video_Tutorials
28. Ongoing work • Coverity defect density now at: 0.08 (average for >1 mio. LOC open source: 0.65)
29. Source Code Quality
30. LibreOffice ist Serious Business
31. Next Hackfest: Ankara The LibreOffice Ankara HackFest 2016 will take place on the weekend of April, 30th to May, 1st 2016, in Ankara https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Ankara201 6
32. Have Fun! Thorsten Behrens IT-Lead LibreOffice CIB software GmbH Twitter: @thooorsten