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The wonderful world of LibreOffice
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How we will fix your Free Software Office Suite
Abstract
LibreOffice is the office suite of the future; it also happens to be built round an ancient beast of a codebase that reads, in places, something like a Windows device driver. Come and hear how the exciting transition to a world of beauty and elegance is going.
We will look at the threats to the Free Software ecosystem that poorly managed, corporate dominated, copyright assignment based projects can cause. We’ll look at some f the strains that LibreOffice places on the toolchain, revision-control, the kernel and base system. We will also try to understand the enigma of the failure of component based software engineering.
A development plan will be rambled over, with tips on how you can get your favorite new technology integrate into LibreOffice (should you be so brave), and finally you will be persuaded that this is the best place to make your personal blow for a Free Software office suite that we can all be proud of.
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Michael Meeks
Novell, Inc.- Website: http://www.gnome.org/~michael
- Blog: http://www.gnome.org/~michael
- Twitter: michael_meeks
Biography
Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He
very much enjoys working for Novell where as a member of the Desktop
research team he has worked on desktop infrastructure and
applications, particularly MeeGo, OpenOffice.org, CORBA, Bonobo,
Nautilus, Evolution and accessibility, amongst other interesting
things. He now works as an Architect, trying to understand and nudge
the direction of our Linux Desktop work. Prior to this he worked for
Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback
achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions.