libreoffice: outline, and what we are doing in japan
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This slide is for Software Freedom Day 2013 Hong Kong, held in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 21st Sep., 2013. See official site: http://hk.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/en/sfd2013/ It describes about LibreOffice product, LibreOffice very active lovely community, and Japanese activities.TRANSCRIPT
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LibreOffice: outline,and what we are doing in Japan
OGASAWARA, NaruhikoLibreOffice Japanese Team
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About Naruhiko
A member of Japanese TeamLibreOffice regional group to encourage Japanese community
to be discussed later
NOT a member of The Document Foundation :)
CUPS ja translator
Wrote some articles inJapanese media
Ubuntu, LibreOffice,printing solutions in FLOSS world
UbuntuMagazine
seehttp://ubuntu.asciimw.jp/
SoftwareDesign
Oct., 2012
seehttp://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2012/201210
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disclaimer
I'm NOT member of TDF (mentioned before)
All information in this slide about LibreOffice community and The Document Foundation is not TDF official
Just my observation (and sometimes expectation)
(especially page 13 and 14 :)
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What's ?
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has two meaning
Product:
Free office productive suite
Community:
World wide, transparent, open community
To provide LibreOffice office suite
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as a great office productive suite
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Overview
Libre (French) ~= Free
Multi platformWindows, Mac OS X, GNU/LinuxMight be used as cloud services (coming soon)LibreOffice OnTablet will come (iOS and Android)
Portable version (Windows only)Carry in a USB stick, use without installation
LGPLv3+ / MPL
Repos of Extensions and Templates
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Open Document Format (ODF)and interoperability
Default file format of LibreOfficestandardized in OASIS
recent version is 1.2 (now proposed to ISO/IEC)totally vendor-free
LibO, AOO, MSO, Google Drv, Abiword and Gnumeric support ODF
ensured interoperability by PlugFest
Great interoperability featuresHybrid PDF exporter (can embed ODF itself)OOXML and legacy MS Office importer / exportermany other formats can be imported
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Are we developing a Microsoft Officecompatible software?
NO. LibreOffice is NOT a Microsoft Office compatible
DO NOT say “poorman's MS Office” ;)
But people can migrate their office suitefrom MS Office to LibreOffice
Top features and interoperabilitySuch as migrate database Oracle to PostgreSQL
No free lunch we have
But we can let our intellectual properties (documents) free from a vendor
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Time-based release
Faster is better we believe :)rapid development is good for developersProblem: QA, too short lifecycle for enterprise
See: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org /ReleasePlan
master
Conservative
beta
RCs
Early
adopters
Recom-
mended
.0
.2 or .3
.4++
3.6EOL: 3.6.7
(08/15/2013)
SOL: Nov 2013
now2013-09
time
SOL = Start of LifeEOL = End of Life
4.0EOL: 4.0.6
(11/21/2013)
4.1EOL: 4.1.6
(05/28/2014)
4.2EOL: 4.2.6
(11/19/2014)
4.3 → SOL: May 2014
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as a open, transparent, free community
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LibreOffice, OpenOffice.organd Apache OpenOffice
LibreOffice is:a son of OpenOffice.organ elder brother of Apache OpenOffice
Code base had been same (OOo),
But totally different project
fork
contributedfrom Oracle
OpenOffice.orgLibreOffice
ApacheOpenOffice
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LibreOffice, OpenOffice.organd Apache OpenOffice (cont'd)
Common misunderstanding: Oracle is evilgenerally, I can say nothing but about us, it's NOT true
Which is do you want; open project,or strict controlled project?
In Sun era, OOo team's governance had been very closed
so open-oriented developers had left from OOo and created TDFthen OOo had contributed to Apache
I don't know how they are right now ;)
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The Document Foundation (TDF)
What's TDF?legal backing for the communitycharitable foundation under German lawMission statement/objective: to nurture and to develop office software that is free to use by everyone and that is based on open standards
Vendor independence:advisory board(※) gives advice, but can NOT vote
Everything is openeveryone can read any discussions and judgements
( ) AMD, CloudOn, Collabora, KACST, MIMO, Studio Storti, FRODEV, ※FSF, Google, Intel, Lanedo, RedHat, SPI, SUSE
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Fast growing community
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Well-balanced voluntary / profession development
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The door for new comer is always open
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You can choose full time work, or send a small patch to LibreOffice
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Open, active, speedy development
Open technical discussion in ML, IRC, …
Fast code review by Gerrit
Easy to localize by Pootle web system
Lots of unit tests instead of long QA terms
Cleanup old/unused codes and German comments
Easy to join to develop via Easy HacksCollection of bugs to fix easily for novice developershttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
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Happy community!
Thanks for Florian Effenberger and his nice slide:https://speakerdeck.com/floeff/ the-document-foundation-the-open-transparent-and-meritocratic-future-of-free-office-software
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in Japan
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What's Japanese Team?
A team to work in backyard of Japanese local communities
Which backyard jobs we have:promotion / marketing for Japanese userstranslation of TDF official announcementsmaking rules / guideline in Japanese community work (mainly translations of UI / Web)
LibreOfficeGlobal
Community
LibreOfficeJapanese Community
JapaneseLibreOfficeend usersJapanese Team
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Lots of events!
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Lots of events!
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Lots of events!
from OpenStreetMap http://osm.jp/map
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Lots of events!
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Translations
Official announcements from TDFevery announcements are translated within few days (mostly a day)
UI & Helpeveryone can suggest translation in Pootleactive members have commit privilegeUI keeps >99% translation ratio with good qualityhelp... painful problem...
high level knowledge about office suite itself needed
Wikiless activity
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Development, QA
Developmentvery few, but some new guys coming in and works very well :)developer-growth project just started by Japanese Team
we'll have mini hack-a-thon around Tokyo area within this year
Mr. Kohei Yoshida, Japanese full time Calc developer (Collabora), is good advisor for developer newbie
Local QACJK issues – can we work together?special type docs in Japanese culture
ExcelHo-gan Shi( 方眼紙)
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Off topic: great world of Excel Ho-gan shi
方眼紙 = grid sheetspreadsheet as a layout software
We can'tuse cells
to input values
line-style ismost important
in the culture
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How LibreOffice popular in Japan?
I feel name of LibreOffice is getting populer
Thoug “OpenOffice” is still strongthey will google “OpenOffice” when they'll need a fee-free office suite...
see graph from a researchby Japanese web media
Attending/organizingevents is NOT enough
we have to talk withnon-FLOSS peopleBut how?
OpenOffice 51%
LibreOffice 28%
KingSoft Office 13%
JUST Office 2%StarSuite 2%
Others 5%
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20130326/466042/
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Good News!
LibreOffice won best users' satisfaction in “non-MS” office suite in Japan
same research in previous slide
Because of our rapid development strategy
LibreOffice
OpenOffice
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
18.9%
10.3%
51.4%
29.4%
13.5%
33.8%
13.5%
20.6%
2.7%
5.9%
Horrible Bad So so Good Very good
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Major LibreOffice users in Japan
Local GovermentsAizu-Wakamatsu City (Fukushima Pref.)Kohga City (Shiga Pref.)Tokushima Pref.Kuki City (Saitama Pref.)Kosai City (Shizuoka Pref.)
Companies, GroupsNTT Comware Corp. (system integrator)Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.(electronics equipment manufacturer & sales)Japan Agricultural co-operative (JA) Fukuoka-city(Fukuoka-city's regional organization of farmers)
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Case Study 1. Aizu-Wakamatsu City
In Fukushima Pref.
Population: 123,000
pictures from: http://www.aizukanko.com/
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Case Study 1. Aizu-Wakamatsu City (cont'd)
Start from OOo (2008)
IT manager have joined OOo communityfeedback bugs, suggest translation wording, ...NOT just an end-user, BUT a community member – Mr. Meguro is our great fellow
Migrated to LibreOffice at Jan 2012migration process is published in their web siteall documents inside the local gov. are ODFmost of all document forms to residences of the city are provided as ODF (and PDF, MS Office)
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Case Study 2. JA Fukuoka-city
Japan Agricultural co-operativeWhole Japan cooperation
JA Fukuoka-cityFukuoka-city's Regional branch of JAAlmost 400 PC in several offices
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Case Study 2. JA Fukuoka-city (cont'd)
Their IT manager had studied deeply alternatives of MS Office and chosen LibO
point: good functionality and active community
Not using commercial supportthey make their own migration guidelines / manualsand published under CC-BY-SA 2.1 JADocument migrations / BASIC (macro) migrations
Their point:the way to use FLOSS on their usual business is sharing everythingthey know usual business we don't have any secrets
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In addition...
NTT Comware has Japanese team members also
Sumitomo Eletric Industries is in very community side
support our activities to rent their meeting space for our offline meeting
Some companies provide L1 commercial support (but it's not our activity)
Microsoft threat
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Conclusion
LibreOffice is fantastic, free office suite
LibreOffice community is open, transparent, free and really active
LibreOffice Japanese team are having lots of events to promote LibreOffice in Japan
different kind of efforts are needed to let LibreOffice popular
Some local gov., groups and companies are keep good relationship with us
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