Representatives of the LibreOffice QA and Developer Teams will be on hand at the UW Communications Building, Rm 242, Seattle, WA to teach interested users how to get involved with the LibreOffice community. They will be providing food and t-shirts for all LibreFest participants, so grab your laptop, roll up your sleeves, and dig in! Can’t make it to Seattle? … then join remotely via the QA/IRC or Dev IRC channels.
LibreOffice is the open-source and free office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, slide shows, databases and more. Available available in over 110 languages and for a variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or newer, and Linux. It is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions.
Tentative schedule:
- 09:00 – Organizers show up and confirm power/network ready @ venue
- 09:30 – FOOD: coffee/bagels/fruit
- 10:00 – SPEECH: ‘Welcome to the Event!’ + hand out T-shirts
- 10:15 – SPLIT into two teams: Bug Triaging Bee with QA, and Hackfest with developers
- Bug Triaging Bee: Introduction to using Bugzilla and triaging bugs
- Hackfest: Introduction to building LibreOffice
- Lunch-ish time: Pizza appears
- 16:00 – (or later) LibreFest ends
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