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Meet LibreOffice Volunteer Robinson Tryon (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the sometimes-you-meet-nice-people-without-looking-for-them dept.

When Slashdot's Tim Lord went to Texas Linux Fest, one of the people he met there was Robinson Tryon. He's a volunteer with LibreOffice, and in this conversation he gave us a nice look at what's going on these days with LibreOffice and its parent organization, The Document Foundation. (Alternate Video Link)

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  1. If you can't figure out your web site's font issue by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

    If you can't figure out your web site's font issue, how do you expect us to believe you can code a full-blown word processor?

    (This: "For everyone experiencing weird font issues on our website please know we are investigating the issue since several weeks")

  2. Re:If you can't figure out your web site's font is by halivar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does your webmaster do all your coding, as well?

  3. Re:Troubled by "volunteer" status by allquixotic · · Score: 2

    A lot of people who do this kind of thing on a volunteer basis, are either already making a decent living wage writing software and do this in their spare time; or, they are hoping that their contributions will attract attention from corporations that can then hire them to work on the software (thus funding the development of FOSS and also furthering the company's goals by improving the software they use).

  4. Robinson here... by Qubit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Woo hoo! I finally made it to the front page of Slashdot! I am feeling a bit petrified :-)

    A couple of quick announcements:

    • LibreOffice has a booth at OSCON (Portland, OR) next week, so if you're around, please stop by and say hi!
    • If you'll be in Boston, MA next week, we're having a Summer Hackfest during the July 26-27 weekend. We'd love to have you join us for two days of coding, triaging, and FREE food and T-shirts. (Here's the T-shirt design)

    Cheers,

    Robinson Tryon
    LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
    Senior QA Bug Wrangler
    The Document Foundation

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  5. Re:LibreOffice for Android in limbo by Qubit · · Score: 2

    There are potentially more users out there for a LibreOffice version for Android than for users of the Windows, Mac and Linux versions combined. So why's the Android version forever stuck in demoware limbo?

    Tomaz shares the following on his blog...

    Thanks to Smoose, we are now able to do some real progress with the Android version of LibreOffice. The idea is to first build a LibreOffice document viewer, which is able to display any type of document that is supported by LibreOffice. Afterwards build on that and provide more features and eventually editing. ...
    I am really excited with what we have achieved and really looking forward to see where we go from here. By the time of LibreOffice 4.4 we should have a working and polished document viewer application ready. Thanks again to Smoose for funding for the work on this important step!

    Per the release plan, LibreOffice 4.4 will arrive early in 2015.

    Cheers,
    --Robinson

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