Monthly Archive:: September 2011

21 Sep 2011

IBM is hiring

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann – a former Oracle OOo developer – has written a message on the Apache OOo-Dev mailing list, where he explains that “after some change acceptance in the last months, I have got the possibility to
17 Sep 2011

InfoWorld awards Best of Open Source to LibreOffice

LibreOffice is one of the winners of InfoWorld BOSSIE – Best of Open Source – Awards 2011. LibreOffice OpenOffice.org desperately needed a rejuvenating shot in the arm, and it’s come in the form of the LibreOffice project,
12 Sep 2011

LibreOffice User Research

The guys at OpenSource Usability Labs have carried out an extensive survey of LibreOffice users, with over 5.400 answers (over 75% completed). Results have been summarized in three different posts. LibreOffice User Research – Results # 1
5 Sep 2011

Digressions on AOOo

I have one quarter of Roman blood, and I have spent my youth in Rome where I have attended the primary school. I can still speak with a decent Roman accent, so AOOo – the short name