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LibreOffice in Eastern Asia

Naruhiko (NARU) OgasawaraLibreOffice Japanese Team

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About NARU

A member of LibreOffice Japanese TeamCo-leader of UI / Help translationsA modelator of LibreOffice Askbot http://ask.libreoffice.org/ja/Working for publications / outreaching

Ubuntu user (sorry...)

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Question:

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Do you use LibreOffice usually?

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Do you use LibreOffice usually?

Thanks, everyone!Of course, LibreOffice is PRIMARY office suite in openSUSE desktop environmentSUSE is an advisory board of The Document Foundation since it was born

We are friends♡

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LibreOffice has two meanings

Product:Leading FLOSS office productive suite

Community:Worldwide, open and passionate project

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LibreOfficeas leading FLOSS Office suite

Full function office suiteWriter, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, Math

Multi-platform: Linux, Windows, OS XImpress remote: presentation controller on Android/iOSWebODF: HTML5 ODF editor; not a part of LibreOfficeLibreOffice Portable

Open Sourse: LGPLv3/MPLMultilingual Support:

120 language project, ~100 active

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LibreOffice lifecycle

Time-based release strategyMajor release every 6 monthsMinor release every 1 months

Last 2 Major versions are supported

4.3.2.2MAJOR MINOR SUFFIX

See: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org /ReleasePlan

master

Conservative

betaRC

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Adopter

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mended

.0

4.2EOL: 4.2.7(2014/11/19)

SOL: Feb 2015

now2013-11

time

SOL = Start of LifeEOL = End of Life

4.3EOL: 4.3.6(2014/05/27)

4.4?EOL: 4.4.6(2015/11/18)

4.5 → SOL: May 2016

.2~.3

.4++

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LibreOffice lifecycle (in openSUSE)

openSUSE 13.1 Default: 4.1(.6)https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:13.1:Update/libreoffice

Latest version when openSUSE 13.1 was released4.1 series is already EOL but openSUSE patched it

very common distro release strategy

4.2: package LibreOffice:4.2 / libreofficehttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:4.2/libreoffice

4.3: package LibreOffice:Factory / libreofficehttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:Factory/libreoffice

Can choose suitable version via YaST

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Notable features

DrawOffice-ish vector drawing softwaremulti layer support

LibreLogo in WriterLogo language interpreteras Writer python extensionGood for educationPowerful drawing functionality

3D animation in Impressand many more...

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Interoperability

We say “interoperability,” not “compatibility.”Hybrid PDF

PDF files which include their ownsource files(ODF)

RTF / Traditional MS Office format /OOXML format support

Very important functionalityGetting better because we choose time-based release

Document Liberation Projectincludes tons of import filters of proprietary document formats

PDF

ODF sourceEdit as ODF

View as PDF

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LibreOffice as worldwide, open and passionate project

80 millions userbaseMajor Linux distro contains LibreOfficeSUSE, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, ...

4 years old active projectA Son of OpenOfice.org (10 years old, but dead), andAn Elder Brother of Apache OpenOffice

Fork

Endowedby Oracle

OpenOffice.orgLibreOffice

ApacheOpenOffice

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The Document Foundation (TDF)

The legal and financial support foundationBy German law~200 members

The Board of DirectorsThe main administration of the projectElected by TDF membersONLY 3 founders are in the BoD (10 members/deputies)

NOT to concentrate authorities to limited people

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Rapidly growing developers

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New Developers Old Developers

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Stable active committers

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Individuals are welcome

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SUSE Sonicle

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Munich MultiCoreWare

Linagora Lanedo

Known contributors KACST

ITOMIG Intel

Igalia IBM

Funky Ericsson

Collabora CodeWeavers

CodeThink CloudOn

Canonical Bobiciel

Assigned Apache Volunteer

ALTA Aentos

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How wonderful community, isn't it?

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LibreOffice in Japan, and (Eastern) Asia

Can we work together?

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Problem sharing

Eastern Asia countries share CJK issuesBug 83066 - [METABUG] Tracking bug for CJK issueshttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83066

Or any other linguistics / regional issuesInput method relatedLocale (date/time representation) related…

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Bug hunting events in Asia

Global bug hunting eventLast event (May 23-25):https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.3.0Will prepared to 4.4.0 soon (due to beta1; mid of Nov.)Of course we'll be able to join it

If we'll work offline, we'll do it wellPrepare offline events in each places (Tokyo, Beijing, ...)Chat each other via IRC (maybe #libreoffice-qa)Good to collaborate because less time differenceAdd some “regional” test

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Growing new developers

We have very few active developers in JapanHow about your country?

More developers are needed to solve our “local” issues

If (Eastern) Asia share “local” issues, collaboration works can helps to solve themCreate Asian developers network!

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Connect to global

Europe is the center of LibreOffice communityBut little far from (Eastern) AsiaNeed to create a thick information pipeline

e.g. Attend LibreOffice Conference as Asian community members

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Anything Else?

Please raise your hand and tell me your idea!

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