It was a great FOSDEM again, with a lot of presentations, speakers, and participants. We met a lot of people during those days and it was great to catch up with them. Most of the time our team was at the LibreOffice booth in the K building at the main hall, or at Open Document Editors devroom.
Missed our talks?
If you missed our talks because the rooms were pretty full or because you couldn’t attend FOSDEM please have a look at the registrations and slides:
Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms
How LibreOffice is meeting the challenges of new platforms both hardware and software, adapting to new constraints & shining.
Calc: The challenges of scalable arithmetic
How we threaded the Calc core to get some great efficiency wins on the new deeply threaded Ryzen era.
EPUB export in LibreOffice Writer
LibreOffice Writer was always capable of exporting your document in a portable way in the form of the PDF filter. Today many users read reflowable content in EPUB, which is the new PDF to some extent. This work is done by integrating the libepubgen Document Liberation library and by improving both the library and LibreOffice itself along the way. Come and see how it’s implemented, where are the still rough edges and how you can help.
Dialog tunneling in LibreOffice Online
LibreOffice on the desktop is very feature packed office suite. One of the complaints that power users make in Online is that it lacks many of them: they cannot add colored borders in their paragraphs, manage tracked changes/comments, correct the spelling and grammar in the document, etc. The question is how do we bring these functionalities to the cloud at your disposal in your browser tab?
On Saturday night it was community time, where we had dinner with all the LibreOffice contributors at Betacowork, the same location where we had two days of LibreOffice Hackfest on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th of February.
