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Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms

Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms

Making LibreOffice work well everywhere.

Track: Miscellaneous
Room: K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
Day: Sunday
Start: 12:00
End: 12:50

Come and hear how LibreOffice is meeting the challenges of new platforms both hardware and software, adapting to new constraints & shining.

LibreOffice has faced a lot of challenges recently, from hardware providing ever more threading resource to the need to provide an online version in the browser. These bring some interesting solutions.

Come and hear the story of how we're bringing the code-base up-to-date, from providing a ~constant-time threaded XML parser, to parallelising the guts of Calc's calculation engine.

Catch the latest in Online innovation, optimization and scalability work as well as its growing integration with lots of other Open Source projects. Hear how we're starting to bring dialogs both to your browser, and to your native Linux desktop toolkit.

Finally catch up with the latest and greatest feature/function improvements coming in LibreOffice 6.0 - our next major release timed to co-incide with FOSDEM release, and find out how you can best get involved with LibreOffice.