Daily Archives: Wednesday, February 27, 2013

  • LibreOffice Impress sprint in Dresden

    Steve WoodsOpen Source, Tech

    The LibreOffice project has been offered a project weekend from Friday 22nd March to Sunday 24th March at Dresden Technical University which will focus specifically on Impress, LibreOffice’s presentation tool.

    Dresden 2013 sprint logo

    The main aims of the weekend will be to:

    • get into the code that is on stage with boatloads of presenters each year;
    • go bug hunting and help bug fixing;
    • find paper cuts and look into usability – life on stage is stressful enough without your presentation software acting up;
    • have a good time and meet new people!

    The main venue for the event will be the Beyer Building (map) at Dresden Technical University’s main campus physics faculty (map).

    The rough programme for the weekend is as follows:

    • Friday 22nd March – arrival and introduction, knowing your way around Impress;
    • Saturday 23rd March – bug hunting and fixing;
    • Sunday 24th March – wrap-up, future work.

    More details are available on The Document Foundation wiki.

  • DFD 2013 event registration opens

    Steve WoodsOpen Source, Open Standards, Tech

    Event registration opened yesterday for Document Freedom Day 2013 which will be held on Wednesday, 27th March. Local event teams can add details of their activities to the Document Freedom website and have them marked on the global campaign map.

    Last week 50 promotional packs were dispatched to hackerspaces to kick start event preparations. They contain posters, fliers, stickers, and advice, including how to apply for financial support. Packs are now also available to order online.

    dfd 2013 banner

    “Last year trail-blazing Open Standards advocates introduced thousands of people to better standards,” said DFD Campaign Manager Sam Tuke. “Teams now have more resources at their disposal and fresh ideas including switching from Adobe Flash to HTML5 technologies”.

    “Markets for digital products such as audio-books and cloud documents have grown dramatically in recent months, but without open standards customers are victims of vendor lock-in and anti-consumer market control,” said Erik Albers, Community Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe.

    This year the DFD campaign aims to have more events in more locations. In 2012 groups of volunteers ran 54 DFD events in 23 different countries, including Belgium, Colombia and Indonesia.

    This post originally appeared on Bristol Wireless.