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Starting with LibreOffice 7.2 the ScriptForge library will have Python support for most of its services and methods, which will make it easier for users to create Python scripts. The objective of this talk is twofold: first it will provide a brief overview of how to get started writing Python scripts that use the ScriptForge library and later the Calc service will be introduced, showcasing its main methods. Currently the Calc service has 30 methods and 11 properties that have been documented in the online Help. Hence, this talk seeks to promote ScriptForge and its capabilities among LibreOffice users to boost adoption.", "description": "The presentation will start by introducing how to create ScriptForge-based Python scripts using the APSO extension and then move on the creating scripts on separate \".py\" files alongside a text editor or any Python IDE. Later on, an overview of ScriptForge's Calc service will be presented, listing all methods and properties. Some examples will be presented and also implemented live to showcase ScriptForge's Python capabilities. Examples will start with basic sheet operations and data read/write to spreadsheets. Emphasis will also be given in more advanced features such as importing data from CSV files and databases. The source code of all examples will be made public in GitHub.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 25, "code": "DSXZQB", "public_name": "Rafael Lima", "biography": "Rafael Lima is a Computer Scientist, holds a PhD in Production Engineering and works as a professor and researcher in a Brazilian university. 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On the other hand, setting up and running SDK needs external tools like GNU make, zip, cat and sed tools which are provided by Cygwin in Windows.\r\nThis talk is about using LibreOffice SDK with minimal set of dependencies, using modern build tools like **cmake** and **qmake**.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 17, "code": "TE7FDA", "public_name": "Hossein", "biography": "Hossein Nourikhah is the Developer Community Architect at the Document Foundation (TDF). Hossein is a developer, university lecturer and FOSS advocate. 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Therefore, Wikidata can be considered to be a great place where the data of spellcheck dictionaries can be stored and maintained.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 24, "code": "FHD7PS", "public_name": "Stanislav Hor\u00e1\u010dek", "biography": "Stanislav Hor\u00e1\u010dek is a programmer by profession and long-term LibreOffice contributor, member of TDF since 2014. 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We are moving the project to TDF, with two main activities: promotion of the ODF Standard Document Format with presentations, and development of a comprehensive bibliography.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 3, "code": "DUF9S3", "public_name": "Italo Vignoli", "biography": "Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project, an Open Source Initiative (OSI) board member, and the Chairman Emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia. He co-leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"id": 21, "guid": "79db61c9-7089-5398-b4c8-9e29edde7028", "logo": "", "date": "2021-09-24T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Room 2", "slug": "libocon2021-21-getting-the-word-out-to-users-and-to-potential-contributors", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/talk/MEWRSB/", "title": "Getting the word out - to users and to potential contributors", "subtitle": "", "track": "f) Advocating, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "How are we reaching out to new users? And how are we getting new contributors on board? This talk will explain all...", "description": "It's great to have millions of users of LibreOffice, but the software doesn't just magically improve on its own. For a healthy future, we need to keep building a community of contributors and supporters. In this talk, we'll show what we've been doing at The Document Foundation in social media, in marketing and on our websites to raise awareness that LibreOffice is more than just software - it's a place for people to get together and do awesome things. But we'll also have plenty of time for discussions too - we want to hear your ideas!", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 22, "code": "DT7CPD", "public_name": "Mike Saunders", "biography": "Mike Saunders works since 2016 as Marketing and Community Coordinator for The Document Foundation. 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He's a computer scientist by education, and a Free Software enthusiast by heart, a geek from early childhood - and someone who was lucky enough to turn a hobby into an occupation.\r\nDuring his now twenty years of tenure in the project, he's spent most of his time hacking the code in areas ranging from the build system and platform abstraction libraries, through to Impress and Writer. 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With \r\neffects on the whole society, e.g. through manipulated elections.\r\n\r\nSo, if we have to accept that we cannot reach a world without personal data \r\nand society is only protected if all, not only a few people actually are able \r\nto live privately: How could an alternative look like? 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Cesar translated several books into Portuguese (such as The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design, both by Fred Brooks, Jr.) and reviewed a good amount of articles and books both in English and Portuguese (such as The $1 Prototype, by Greg Nudelman).", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"id": 34, "guid": "e2543e30-f1ef-5eca-9062-32d3eaa959c8", "logo": "", "date": "2021-09-24T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "01:30", "room": "Room 3", "slug": "libocon2021-34-how-to-debug-writer-forwards-and-backwards-epsiode-2-", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/talk/HJYJUE/", "title": "How to debug Writer, forwards and backwards (Epsiode 2)", "subtitle": "", "track": null, "type": "Workshop", "language": "en", "abstract": "This is not an ordinary talk. This is going to be a screencast of using a debugger to find out why Writer crashes in Undo. State of the art tools will be used (i.e. rr+gdb). 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There are many challenges in both language translation, concept translation and much more. \r\nThis presentation will share where the Brazilian team is today, what the results have been, and the challenges we still have before us.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 23, "code": "3V9DMY", "public_name": "Timothy Brennan", "biography": "Timothy originated from an American (USA) family, but was raised in Brazil like his parents. He is fluent in both US English and Brazilian Portuguese besides being a dual, American and Brazilian, citizen. 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