andreasma_at_LibreOffice

We use currently for the LibreOffice Template site a Plone instance with an add-on called Plone Software Center. This add-on is also used by the Plone project to host add-on products. It has many options which fits to the needs and knowledge of developers. But some contributors of templates for LibreOffice told me that it is a bit sophisticated to them. Thus I decided to start the development of a new add-on for the LibreOffice Template site, that makes the upload of templates much easier. I named this add-on "Template Upload Center". An instance of the center will contain template projects and the user can add to the project one or more downloadable files (with a description of its features).



You will see in the screenshot above only a first step of this new add-on, but with a new design of the website.

I started with a new Plone product for the LibreOffice Template Center from scratch today. I want to make it much easier for the contributors to the template repository to upload their templates to the site.
I created the new product with the paster command and added a new archetype to the product. I uploaded my first step of the project to my repository at github.com: https://github.com/andreasma/collective.TemplateUploadCenter

It would last some month to create a first productive version.

I worked on an issue of the LibreOffice extensions site with jpeg-files. There was a package missed on the server that was added now. After a rebuild of the Plone-PIL-Package everything works smoothly. One todo less on my list.

The new extension center of LibreOffice (http://extensions.libreoffice.org) reached his first hundred projects today. There were some new contributions to the site in the last days. The site is setup using a Plone CMS with the add-on Plone Software Center with blobstorage-support.
There are many language tools and spellchecker dictionaries available on the site and their number is growing day by day.
If you want to contribute your free open source extension for LibreOffice, go to the site, get an account and create a new project.

Some days ago I get feedback from the design team and changed the logo back to the original today. There was also a new question about the source code of the extension and an explanation, what's to do, if it's not inside: provide a link to the source code of the release.