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openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
LibreOffice in Eastern Asia 
Naruhiko (NARU) Ogasawara 
LibreOffice Japanese Team
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About NARU 
A member of LibreOffice Japanese Team 
Co-leader of UI / Help translations 
A modelator of LibreOffice Askbot http://ask.libreoffice.org/ja/ 
Working for publications / outreaching 
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Ubuntu user (sorry...)
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Question:
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Do you use LibreOffice usually?
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openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
Do you use LibreOffice usually? 
Thanks, everyone! 
Of course, LibreOffice is PRIMARY office suite in 
openSUSE desktop environment 
SUSE is an advisory board of The Document 
Foundation since it was born 
We are friends♡
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LibreOffice has two meanings 
Product: 
Leading FLOSS office productive suite 
Community: 
Worldwide, open and passionate project
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LibreOffice 
as leading FLOSS Office suite 
Full function office suite 
Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, Math 
Multi-platform: Linux, Windows, OS X 
Impress remote: presentation controller on Android/iOS 
WebODF: HTML5 ODF editor; not a part of LibreOffice 
LibreOffice Portable 
Open Sourse: LGPLv3/MPL 
Multilingual Support: 
120 language project, ~100 active
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LibreOffice lifecycle 
Time-based release strategy 
Major release every 6 months 
Minor release every 1 months 
Last 2 Major versions are 
supported 
4.3.2.2 
MAJOR MINOR SUFFIX 
See: 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org 
/ReleasePlan 
master 
Conservative Recom-mended 
.0 
Adopter 
Early 
RC 
beta 4.2 
EOL: 4.2.7 
(2014/11/19) 
SOL: Feb 2015 
now 
2013-11 
time 
SOL = Start of Life 
EOL = End of Life 
4.3 
EOL: 4.3.6 
(2014/05/27) 
4.4? 
EOL: 4.4.6 
(2015/11/18) 
4.5 → SOL: 
May 2016 
.2~.3 
.4++
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LibreOffice lifecycle (in openSUSE) 
openSUSE 13.1 Default: 4.1(.6) 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:13.1:Update/libreoffice 
Latest version when openSUSE 13.1 was released 
4.1 series is already EOL but openSUSE patched it 
very common distro release strategy 
4.2: package LibreOffice:4.2 / libreoffice 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:4.2/libreoffice 
4.3: package LibreOffice:Factory / libreoffice 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:Factory/libreoffice 
Can choose suitable version via YaST 
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Notable features 
Draw 
Office-ish vector drawing software 
multi layer support 
LibreLogo in Writer 
Logo language interpreter 
as Writer python extension 
Good for education 
Powerful drawing functionality 
3D animation in Impress 
and many more...
View as 
PDF 
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Interoperability 
We say “interoperability,” not “compatibility.” 
Hybrid PDF 
ODF source 
Edit as ODF 
PDF files which include their own 
source files(ODF) 
RTF / Traditional MS Office format / 
PDF 
OOXML format support 
Very important functionality 
Getting better because we choose time-based release 
Document Liberation Project 
includes tons of import filters of proprietary document 
formats 
openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
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LibreOffice 
as worldwide, open and passionate project 
80 millions userbase 
Major Linux distro contains LibreOffice 
SUSE, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, ... 
4 years old active project 
A Son of OpenOfice.org (10 years old, but dead), and 
An Elder Brother of Apache OpenOffice 
openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
Fork 
Endowed 
by Oracle 
OpenOffice.org 
LibreOffice 
Apache 
OpenOffice
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The Document Foundation (TDF) 
The legal and financial support foundation 
By German law 
~200 members 
The Board of Directors 
The main administration of the project 
Elected by TDF members 
ONLY 3 founders are in the BoD (10 members/deputies) 
NOT to concentrate authorities to limited people 
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openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
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Rapidly growing developers 
0 
Sep 10 
Nov 10 
Jan 11 
Mar 11 
May 11 
Jul 11 
Sep 11 
Nov 11 
Jan 12 
Mar 12 
May 12 
Jul 12 
Sep 12 
Nov 12 
Jan 13 
Mar 13 
May 13 
Jul 13 
Sep 13 
Nov 13 
Jan 14 
Mar 14 
May 14 
Jul 14 
100 
200 
300 
400 
500 
600 
700 
800 
900 
Monthly Growth of LibreOffice Developers 
New Developers Old Developers
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Stable active committers 
Aug 12 
Sep 12 
Oct 12 
Nov 12 
Dec 12 
Jan 13 
Feb 13 
Mar 13 
Apr 13 
May 13 
Jun 13 
Jul 13 
Aug 13 
Sep 13 
Oct 13 
Nov 13 
Dec 13 
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Feb 14 
Mar 14 
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Jun 14 
Jul 14 
0 
40 
80 
120 
160 
200 
240 
280 
320 
360 
LibreOffice Code Committers per Month
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Individuals are welcome 
3500 
3000 
2500 
2000 
1500 
1000 
500 
0 
Commits per month by affiliation 
Tata Consultancy Services SYNERZIP 
SUSE Sonicle 
SIL RedHat 
Oracle Openismus 
Nou & Off New Contributors 
Munich MultiCoreWare 
Linagora Lanedo 
Known contributors KACST 
ITOMIG Intel 
Igalia IBM 
Funky Ericsson 
Collabora CodeWeavers 
CodeThink CloudOn 
Canonical Bobiciel 
Assigned Apache Volunteer 
ALTA Aentos
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How wonderful community, isn't it? 
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LibreOffice in Japan, and (Eastern) Asia 
Can we work together? 
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Problem sharing 
Eastern Asia countries share CJK issues 
Bug 83066 - [METABUG] Tracking bug for CJK issues 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83066 
Or any other linguistics / regional issues 
Input method related 
Locale (date/time representation) related 
… 
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Bug hunting events in Asia 
Global bug hunting event 
Last event (May 23-25): 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.3.0 
Will prepared to 4.4.0 soon (due to beta1; mid of Nov.) 
Of course we'll be able to join it 
If we'll work offline, we'll do it well 
Prepare offline events in each places (Tokyo, Beijing, ...) 
Chat each other via IRC (maybe #libreoffice-qa) 
Good to collaborate because less time difference 
Add some “regional” test
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Growing new developers 
We have very few active developers in Japan 
openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
How about your country? 
More developers are needed to solve our “local” 
issues 
If (Eastern) Asia share “local” issues, collaboration works can 
helps to solve them 
Create Asian developers network!
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openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
Connect to global 
Europe is the center of LibreOffice community 
But little far from (Eastern) Asia 
Need to create a thick information pipeline 
e.g. Attend LibreOffice Conference as Asian community 
members
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Anything Else? 
Please raise your hand and tell me your idea! 
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All text and image content in this document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License 
(unless otherwise specified). "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks. Their respective logos 
and icons are subject to international copyright laws. The use of these therefore is subject to the trademark policy. 
openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing 
Thank you hear me :) 
Contact: 
naruoga@gmail.com 
@naru0ga (twitter) / +Naruhiko (G+)

LibreOffice in Eastern Asia

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    1 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing LibreOffice in Eastern Asia Naruhiko (NARU) Ogasawara LibreOffice Japanese Team
  • 2.
    2 About NARU A member of LibreOffice Japanese Team Co-leader of UI / Help translations A modelator of LibreOffice Askbot http://ask.libreoffice.org/ja/ Working for publications / outreaching openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing Ubuntu user (sorry...)
  • 3.
    3 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Question:
  • 4.
    4 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Do you use LibreOffice usually?
  • 5.
    5 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Do you use LibreOffice usually? Thanks, everyone! Of course, LibreOffice is PRIMARY office suite in openSUSE desktop environment SUSE is an advisory board of The Document Foundation since it was born We are friends♡
  • 6.
    6 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing LibreOffice has two meanings Product: Leading FLOSS office productive suite Community: Worldwide, open and passionate project
  • 7.
    7 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing LibreOffice as leading FLOSS Office suite Full function office suite Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, Math Multi-platform: Linux, Windows, OS X Impress remote: presentation controller on Android/iOS WebODF: HTML5 ODF editor; not a part of LibreOffice LibreOffice Portable Open Sourse: LGPLv3/MPL Multilingual Support: 120 language project, ~100 active
  • 8.
    8 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing LibreOffice lifecycle Time-based release strategy Major release every 6 months Minor release every 1 months Last 2 Major versions are supported 4.3.2.2 MAJOR MINOR SUFFIX See: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org /ReleasePlan master Conservative Recom-mended .0 Adopter Early RC beta 4.2 EOL: 4.2.7 (2014/11/19) SOL: Feb 2015 now 2013-11 time SOL = Start of Life EOL = End of Life 4.3 EOL: 4.3.6 (2014/05/27) 4.4? EOL: 4.4.6 (2015/11/18) 4.5 → SOL: May 2016 .2~.3 .4++
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    9 LibreOffice lifecycle(in openSUSE) openSUSE 13.1 Default: 4.1(.6) https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:13.1:Update/libreoffice Latest version when openSUSE 13.1 was released 4.1 series is already EOL but openSUSE patched it very common distro release strategy 4.2: package LibreOffice:4.2 / libreoffice https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:4.2/libreoffice 4.3: package LibreOffice:Factory / libreoffice https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/LibreOffice:Factory/libreoffice Can choose suitable version via YaST openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
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    10 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Notable features Draw Office-ish vector drawing software multi layer support LibreLogo in Writer Logo language interpreter as Writer python extension Good for education Powerful drawing functionality 3D animation in Impress and many more...
  • 11.
    View as PDF 11 Interoperability We say “interoperability,” not “compatibility.” Hybrid PDF ODF source Edit as ODF PDF files which include their own source files(ODF) RTF / Traditional MS Office format / PDF OOXML format support Very important functionality Getting better because we choose time-based release Document Liberation Project includes tons of import filters of proprietary document formats openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
  • 12.
    12 LibreOffice asworldwide, open and passionate project 80 millions userbase Major Linux distro contains LibreOffice SUSE, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, ... 4 years old active project A Son of OpenOfice.org (10 years old, but dead), and An Elder Brother of Apache OpenOffice openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing Fork Endowed by Oracle OpenOffice.org LibreOffice Apache OpenOffice
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    13 The DocumentFoundation (TDF) The legal and financial support foundation By German law ~200 members The Board of Directors The main administration of the project Elected by TDF members ONLY 3 founders are in the BoD (10 members/deputies) NOT to concentrate authorities to limited people openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
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    openSUSE Asia Summit2014, Beijing 14 Rapidly growing developers 0 Sep 10 Nov 10 Jan 11 Mar 11 May 11 Jul 11 Sep 11 Nov 11 Jan 12 Mar 12 May 12 Jul 12 Sep 12 Nov 12 Jan 13 Mar 13 May 13 Jul 13 Sep 13 Nov 13 Jan 14 Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Monthly Growth of LibreOffice Developers New Developers Old Developers
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    openSUSE Asia Summit2014, Beijing 15 Stable active committers Aug 12 Sep 12 Oct 12 Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13 Apr 13 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Sep 13 Oct 13 Nov 13 Dec 13 Jan 14 Feb 14 Mar 14 Apr 14 May 14 Jun 14 Jul 14 0 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 360 LibreOffice Code Committers per Month
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    16 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Individuals are welcome 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Commits per month by affiliation Tata Consultancy Services SYNERZIP SUSE Sonicle SIL RedHat Oracle Openismus Nou & Off New Contributors Munich MultiCoreWare Linagora Lanedo Known contributors KACST ITOMIG Intel Igalia IBM Funky Ericsson Collabora CodeWeavers CodeThink CloudOn Canonical Bobiciel Assigned Apache Volunteer ALTA Aentos
  • 17.
    17 How wonderfulcommunity, isn't it? openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
  • 18.
    18 LibreOffice inJapan, and (Eastern) Asia Can we work together? openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
  • 19.
    19 Problem sharing Eastern Asia countries share CJK issues Bug 83066 - [METABUG] Tracking bug for CJK issues https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83066 Or any other linguistics / regional issues Input method related Locale (date/time representation) related … openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
  • 20.
    20 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Bug hunting events in Asia Global bug hunting event Last event (May 23-25): https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.3.0 Will prepared to 4.4.0 soon (due to beta1; mid of Nov.) Of course we'll be able to join it If we'll work offline, we'll do it well Prepare offline events in each places (Tokyo, Beijing, ...) Chat each other via IRC (maybe #libreoffice-qa) Good to collaborate because less time difference Add some “regional” test
  • 21.
    21 Growing newdevelopers We have very few active developers in Japan openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing How about your country? More developers are needed to solve our “local” issues If (Eastern) Asia share “local” issues, collaboration works can helps to solve them Create Asian developers network!
  • 22.
    22 openSUSE AsiaSummit 2014, Beijing Connect to global Europe is the center of LibreOffice community But little far from (Eastern) Asia Need to create a thick information pipeline e.g. Attend LibreOffice Conference as Asian community members
  • 23.
    23 Anything Else? Please raise your hand and tell me your idea! openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing
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    24 All textand image content in this document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (unless otherwise specified). "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks. Their respective logos and icons are subject to international copyright laws. The use of these therefore is subject to the trademark policy. openSUSE Asia Summit 2014, Beijing Thank you hear me :) Contact: naruoga@gmail.com @naru0ga (twitter) / +Naruhiko (G+)