Happy Birthday LibreOffice!

It’s been one year, and I still can’t believe time has gone so fast. I would like to thank everybody who has been making the LibreOffice Project what it is today, and what it will become in the years to come. To the first founders and to the newcomers these …

Short update on the LibreOffice Conference in Paris

I thought it would be useful to update everyone on the Paris LibreOffice Conference, as we received several inquiries especially from speakers of the conference. We have ended the selection process of the conference proposals and are right now dispatching each of the selected papers to a fixed room, day …

AppSet: a refreshingly nice package manager for Arch Linux in the times of app stores

In this post I will not talk about LibreOffice or open standards  but I thought this could be of interest to GNU/Linux users out there so feel free to comment and discuss. I’m a rather outspoken user of Arch Linux after having used and tried many other distributions (MandrakeSoft/Mandriva, Suse, …

Oslo

I have never been in Oslo. I hear Norway is a beautiful country, home of the Opera browser and I wish I will go there and visit one day. What happened in Norway is a tragedy; it is, in fact more than tragic. Youths between 14 and 18 being slaughtered …

A Word of Thanks

Yesterday Michael Brauer posted on the OASIS ODF TC mailing list his farewell post. Michael, like a very large number of the other employees of the “Oracle’s Hamburg Business Unit”, if not all of them, will be let go by the end of the month. If you wonder what the …

PPAs and LibreOffice

Waow, two posts in two days. I have to calm down. Anyway, I wanted to answer publicly to a question that has been asked on our mailing lists, on IRC, through private mails, and I’m sure it will be asked by the press at some point. I’m not an Ubuntu …

Ready for Paris? See you there in October!

It seems I’m continuing my pattern of posting less here, which I find to be a disappointing yet apparently an unescapable trend. If you haven’t seen my “dents” and “tweets” on the side of this page, feel free to follow me on identi.ca (charlesschulz) and on Twitter (ch_s). Note that …

Two projects, one community

It’s been several weeks I hadn’t updated this blog. I was quite busy but I really avoided to comment on the latest developments at Apache and OpenOffice.org. Now that the OpenOffice.org project has formally been voted as an Apache project in incubation phase, I feel I can more easily comment …

Letting dogs bark and answering real questions

I was expecting the point in time during the setup phase of the Document Foundation where we would start to hear the first critics and doubts about what we are doing and where we’re heading. This is never a good time, not because the questions make me uncomfortable, but because …

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