History
LibreOffice turns ten and what's next
Lots to learn, and get excited about
From ten years of LibreOffice, how can you apply what we
learned to your project ? What is going on in LibreOffice today, and
where is it going ? and How can you re-use or contribute to the story.
Come hear about the story of LibreOffice, the reasons we
started - and some of the highlights: successes, failures and other
lessons learned from our first ten years. Hear how our initial
decisions and vision of open-ness and vendor neutrality panned
out. See what has been learned about building an effective commercial
ecosystem, with certification.
Hear about the trajectory of technical updates and how we
re-juvenated an open-source code-base through massive re-factoring, as
well as re-targetting for web and mobile.
Catch up with the latest in Online innovation, optimization
and scalability work as well as our growing integration with lots of
other Open Source projects.
Finally catch up with the latest and greatest feature/function
improvements as we move towards LibreOffice 7, and find out how you
can best get involved with the next decade of the LibreOffice story.
Additional information
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| 2/1/20 |
Free and Open Source software has revolutionized the Software Industry and nearly all other areas of human endeavor, but until now its reach into actual governance at the municipal citizen level has not been very deep. Initiatives like Code for America have encountered challenges driving acceptance for FOSS alternatives to proprietary software for citizen governance. At the same time the gap between citizen need and cities’ capabilities as widened. But several new projects are aiming to change ...
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| 2/1/20 |
It has become very popular in the last several years to think of free and open source as a community forward activity, indeed the modern approach is to try and form a community or foundation first and do code second. There is also much talk about maintainer burn out and community exploitation. However, the same people who talk about this still paraphrase the most famous quote from the Cathedral and the Bazaar "Scratching your own itch". They forget this is your own itch not everyone else's ...
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| 2/1/20 |
Over the past twenty years, the automation landscape has changed dramatically. As our hunger for complex technical infrastructure increased, and our inability to keep up with these demands faltered, we've outsourced a lot of the work to third-parties and cloud providers. We'll step backwards and show where we came from, and where we're going. If we don't understand this future, and step up to the challenge, then we eventually won't control our own computers anymore. We'll discuss this timeline ...
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| 2/1/20 |
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are part of the future we were promised. Armed with our mobile devices, we can control everything from our cars to our toasters to the doors of our homes. Along with convenience, IoT devices bring us ethical quandaries, as designers and users. We need to consider the ethical implicates of the technologies we are building and ask ourselves not just about the ways they are being used, for both good and evil, but the potential use cases we might encounter in the ...
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| 2/1/20 |
The presentation is going to be audiovisual and entertaining; based on a number of short videos I want to tell the story of Blender. Starting in late 90s, how Blender became open source, going over the big milestones for Blender, end ending with the fast growth of our project and the interest of the film and game industry. Blender now is a more mature project now, which involves a different dynamics than it used to be. How are we going to tackle the challenges of the industry, while not losing ...
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| 2/1/20 |
Despite the number of working groups, advisory committees, and coordination roundtables, there is little progress towards creating more ethical and safe AI systems. AI systems are deployed in increasingly fragile contexts. From law enforcement to humanitarian aid, several organizations use AI powered systems to make or inform critical decisions with increasingly outsized side effects. What is a rights-based approach for designing minimally safe and transparent guidelines for AI systems? In this ...
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| 2/1/20 |
Free Software (as in Freedom) had won. The vertically integrated Cloud now is the predominant operational paradigm and is threatening to undermine software freedom. To many all seems lost, but the world keeps changing and decentralized compute is making a comeback. Containers and Kubernetes are already having a deep impact on the Linux operating system (OS) that goes well beyond DevOps and cloud-native applications. The concepts of application-centric packaging, process isolation through Linux ...
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