Not so long ago, OpenOffice.org was the less attractive project of the Linux ecosystem. You would need it, you would use it daily but you would not think it was possible to contribute to that project or to improve it in any way.
It was a necessary pile of spaghetti code from the eighties that only Michael Meeks was able to understand. He was even spending every FOSDEM trying to convince you that compiling OpenOffice was not so bad, that it took only a couple of weeks and a few terabytes of hard disk.
Then, in only one year, multiple things happened:
- OpenOffice.org was forked into LibreOffice
- Lanedo, my employer, started to offer services around LibreOffice.
- The first LibreOffice Conference took place in Paris.







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