2023-09-22, 17:00–17:30 (Europe/Bucharest), Room 2
The ten funniest moments of my recent Numbertext, LibreLogo, Hunspell & LibreOffice developments, intended also for future code contributors and general public. (Enhanced version of my presentation at FOSDEM, 2023, showing several tricks to extend language support of Romanian and other languages.)
What motivates a potential code contributor? And a full-time free-software developer? A fun project. LibreOffice development is fun, but also a real challenge, so we must consciously find the flow in it (not quite an oxymoron). While I present my recent LibreOffice, Numbertext, LibreLogo, Hunspell and spelling dictionary & other language technology related developments, partially sponsored by FSF.hu Foundation, Hungary, I collect the ten funniest moments of them, that were left out of the release notes, e.g. from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5#Default_%E2%80%9Cspell_out%E2%80%9D_number_and_currency_formats.
Hungarian free software activist and programmer. Contributor of LibreOffice code base since 2002, certified LibreOffice developer since 2014. Lead developer, mentor and consultant of free software projects, including LibreOffice migration projects of public administration of Hungary. LibreOffice software engineer at Collabora Productivity, Cambridge, UK between 2014–2017, and full-time LibreOffice developer since 2018. Author of Hunspell spell checker, Lightproof grammar checker, LibreLogo and several other improvements for LibreOffice. Member of the board of directors, TDF since 2022.