OfficeBuzz

Some readers asked me about the further information that I promised about the recent LibreOffice conference :-) Eh sorry! Have been bit busy with presentation on LibreOffice for the OpenSourceLab , new article for Linux Magazine, finding new office for the company (succeeded :-) ) and also a large project to get me some food in the kitchen. OK so already a fairly large number of the presentations given, is available on the LibreOffice wiki ! Among those, also my presentation about improving the QA Release cycle – with special focus on the coming LibreOffice 3.5.0. Interesting numbers about bugs and fixing of those in the developer versions (master). And good ideas, learned during the presentation and discussion, about working smarter. I'll come back on this later! Before me, I've some notes I made during the conference. Just some things I found positive, interesting.. * We talked about leadership in the project, and to help people finding their way, so that they can start wi...

Already the start of last day of the wonderful first ever LibreOffice conference . Before preparing the final bits for my presentation on QA (improving the Development / QA cycle - so that means a talk about understanding the interesting and complicated interaction between development and QA-community, and hopefully some smart contributions from the public to get seemingly random improvements) let me post some notices on the event. First there is a great number of presentations and discussions. We started with an impressing overview, by Italo, Michael and Florian, of the first years' achievements of TDF. Impressive numbers, some polished to an very shiny state. But hey, marketing is marketing after all, and also without the footnotes that would make some of them look more realistic: we may be very proud with the people that are involved and all product improvements and the tooling and community that are set up! Nice words about those were spoken by Simon, at the evening organised b...