Muhammet Kara

Collabora Online (COOL) is a LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing. Time-to-start-hacking COOL has been lowered from ~a day to ~10 minutes thanks to integration with GitPod, a dev environment in the cloud, on its GitHub repo.

We will try to share the story on and discuss these topics: - What was it like in the past - The search for ways to lower the barrier - Cloud dev environments - Setting up the repo for GitPod integration - Adapting the infra/CI for faster builds in the cloud (and its nice side effects) - Quick start on hacking COOL in the cloud - Some numbers - Can it be applied also to core (LibreOffice) repo? How?

Redaction in its sanitization sense (as distinguished from its other editing sense) is the blacking out or deletion of text in a document, or the result of such an effort. It is intended to allow the selective disclosure of information in a document while keeping other parts of the document secret. Typically the result is a document that is suitable for publication or for dissemination to others than the intended audience of the original document. For example, when a document is subpoenaed in a court case, information not specifically relevant to the case at hand is often redacted. Another example is patient information of hospitals, which is distributed to be used for research purposes.

A new document redaction feature for Collabora Office is being developed, and it will also be available on the next major version of LibreOffice. This new feature will provide a much more efficient means than the traditional print-redact-scan process, and will try to prevent also the accidental leakage of redacted information by completely removing them in the resulting PDF document, rather than just hiding.

Past, present, and the future of LibreOffice's Personalization dialog.

LibreOffice has had the ability to use Mozilla Themes (Personas) for some time (Tools > Options > Personalization); but it kept breaking all the time, and never had an acceptable UX. Also tons of errors/warnings, and very slow search and apply processes almost brought it to the point of being killed for good. But I couldn’t let it die, started looking into the related code and the bug reports. Now it has a better UX/UI, and got most annoying bugs/crashers fixed, and is much faster.

I will try to present a summary about the journey so far, and the plans for the future.

Past, present, and the future of LibreOffice's Customize dialog.

You can customize menus, toolbars, context (right-click) menus and keyboard shortcuts in LibreOffice, add new menus and toolbars, and assign macros to events.

In the past, the Customize Dialog was providing many ways to change how LibreOffice looks and behaves, but it was not very usable, and it was in need of a revamp. Starting with GSoC 2017, we started a journey to modernize the Customize dialog to make it more usable, fully accessible, and less buggy.

I will try to present a summary about the journey so far, and the plans for the future.