In October, I attended to several good conferences:

• LibreOffice Conferences in Paris, France
• Google Mentor Summit in Mountain View, CA, USA
• fOSSa in Lyon, France

Meeting nice people, exchanging on interesting topics was fun... but I delayed my slides publication until now due to an important work load. Finally they …

Last week at SUSE we had a hackweek... For those who don't know what it is, the idea is to have us developers work during one work week on any project we want. Earlier in the year the idea has been raised to implement a LibreOffice connector for Alfresco as …

I was busy hacking a cool new feature the last weeks... and that I would like to show and will land in LibreOffice Writer 3.5: headers and footers editing has been greatly improved. The history of that feature is pretty simple: it all started with a customer document with …

I was away when the news has been published by Google, so I'll congratulate all our selected students now.

• Miklos Vajna: RTF tokenizer for writerfilter (rewrite of the RTF import)
• Anurag Jain: multi-line editing in the Calc bar
• Eilidh McAdam: first version of a Visio import filter
• Matúš Kukan: performance …

As I promised it from the first developers stats I published, I worked on gitdm to extract some metrics to show how many persons are actively contributing to LibreOffice and how many are providing patches and vanishing right after. As usual the tool and not-yet-upstreamed patches to gitdm are located …

Checking whether documents are looking the same when they are loaded in Writer has been a problem and needs a lot of manual verifications. When discussing with Florian Reuter more than a year ago, I discovered that he wrote a patch to dump the writer layout as an XML file …

Considering the quite low amount of proposals already filed on Google Melange for LibreOffice, I'ld like to remind you all that the application period has started on March 28th and will end up on April, 8th... which means very soon! Don't hesitate to spend a nice summer hacking on funny …

Just a short post to update you that LibreOffice has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2011 organization (See on melange). Don't hesitate to spread the news and to contact us for more informations to start on a project. All our project ideas are sitting on this page …

I discovered yesterday that there was a Pi day... and I happened to have some interesting bug around it fixed today. Rotating the (1,0) vector of a 90 degrees angle didn't provide (0,1) but something really approaching. This tiny error was clearly visible because some borders weren't properly …

I just have filed the form for LibreOffice to be part of the next edition of Google Summer or Code. The list of the selected organizations will be out on March 18th. This will be a nice adventure to help us improve our mentoring skill and help students getting introduced …