andreasma_at_LibreOffice

After a discussion with Florian I added some further changes to the sponsor add-on for the LibreOffice conference site. The sponsorship level is displayed only with a special label and without any amount.

There are some work left to get this add-on to the final state. Will work on this again next time.

I added some features to the test page for the LibreOffice conference in Berlin this year. There is currently a new content type call for paper available with some options for description of the process. I worked also on the sponsorship add-on. The site shows a test sponsor now. It is posible to create different levels of sponsorship, e.g. Platin, Gold, Silver, Bronze. The sponsors will be visible on every page of the conference site.

I updated and reviewed my documentation about the PDF-Export of LibreOffice yesterday. The documentation covers version 3.5 of LibreOffice now. It is currently only in German. You can get the documentation from my homepage in the file format ODT or PDF from his page.

The annual LibreOffice conference will be held in Berlin this year. The organizer team expect a lot of proposals for talks and workshops for this event. Thus I looked around for a tool to manage this proposals with a team and make a interesting conference program out of them, but I couldn't find a tool that is adapted to our needs and easy to handle. I found in the last week an example of such a conference tool, created as an add-on for Plone. I tried this example out and started to migrate it to an full usable version. I had to rewrite some parts of the add-on and get it to work with a different structure. I have created the following "objects" now:

• a speaker or a leader of a workshop with space for some information about himself;
• the program folder (contains some tracks, it has a title and a summary and not mandatory a longer description);
• track (contains information about his topic);
• talk (with a speaker and title and description);
• workshop (with a leader and title and description).

I will continue work on that and look for some feadback from the vibrant LibreOffice community.

I attended the LibreOffice Hackfest in Hamburg last weekend. There were more than 30 hackers around. We had some interesting discussions and we hacked on the code of the office suite. The event was well organized from the Hamburg based hackers.

My goal was to enhance the PDF export dialog with missing option for setting a watermark. I get some hints from other hackers (thanks to Michael Meeks, Björn Michaelsen and Michael Stahl) and created a new section in that dialog. The user of LibreOffice has not to use a special Java program from the command line to set this option anymore. He can set the option direct in the dialog box now (see picture below). The code is in the git repository of LibreOffice and will be delivered with the next main version.



I'll work on some more enhancements of the PDF export dialog next time and update the howto about the PDF export.