Events/2019/FSWC19

Information


The winter camp is held every year in February, just before the Academic Informatics Conference, with over 50 different classes, over 40 different topics, close to 1500 participants and more than 100 instructors in the capacity of the host university.

Participation in the camp is free. Participants are expected to cover only their travel, accommodation and food costs. Quota is limited in training.

This year, there will also be a new course, titled "LibreOffice Development Workshop".

LibreOffice Development Workshop
The workshop was conducted by Muhammet Kara as trainer, who is a certified LibreOffice developer, and working as part of the LibreOffice developers team of Collabora. And the trainer's time for the workshop was sponsored by Collabora, as part of their community development efforts.

Participants
Only the attendees who sent their license statements to the libreoffice developer list are included.

Content

 * Development process and the tools
 * Communication channels
 * LibreOffice code-base & fundamental classes
 * LibreOffice UI files & Glade & How to connect with C++
 * Case study: Making UI changes on dialogs
 * Investigating & working on bug reports
 * Easyhacks
 * Structure of TDF & the LibreOffice community
 * What's next?

Other Stuff
TBD

After the Event

 * Participants were very happy about their progress during the workshop, and they have formed a Telegram group, and also joined the local Telegram groups about LibreOffice events and development, to continue engaging in the LibreOffice community also in the future.
 * Most of them continued working on completing their work-in-progress patches, and working on new patches after the event.
 * All participants except one also stayed for the conference after the workshop to run the LibreOffice community booth at the Academic Informatics Conference.
 * A few was interested in applying for the GSoC program to work on LibreOffice during the summer, and at least 2 have decided to apply next year (while preparing by sending more patches in the meantime).
 * To conclude, I can say that we have planted some good seeds for the future of our community & project.

And here are a few photos from the workshop: