Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community. To improve language support features in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible. This is what you’ll do: Work on the LibreOffice codebase (mostly C++) Focus (initially ..read more

Note: this is one of two Developer positions currently available – the other focuses on accessibility The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading free and open-source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community, especially in the second decade of our project. Look at what we did last year! To improve features in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a devel ..read more

Note: this is one of two Developer positions currently available – the other focuses on RTL/CTL topics The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading free and open-source software office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community, especially in the second decade of our project. Look at what we did last year! To improve features in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching f ..read more

We originally posted this tender in April, but we are now extending the application deadline. The deadline for questions stays as in the original tender: June 15, 2021 The deadline for applications has been extended to: June 24, 2021 For all details on the tender, please refer to the original blogpost ..read more

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading open source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community, especially in the second decade of our project. Quality Assurance Analyst To improve the quality assurance process of LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe , we’re searching for a Quality Assurance Analyst (m/f/d) to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled f ..read more

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading open source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about free software and the open source culture. To provide high quality tools for our contributors, together working on office productivity for over 200 million users around the globe , we are searching for a Web Technology Engineer (m/f/d) to start work as soon as possible. As our future Web Technology Engineer, you work with a great team and collaborate with volunteers around the globe to: Maintain and improve the user-facing (frontend) part of o ..read more

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice. We are looking for an individual or company to clean up and further improve ODF conformance. The default file format of LibreOffice is ODF, the Open Document Format. We have successfully tendered two projects on the current version 1.3 recently: The initial implementation of ODF 1.3 conformance Details: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/05/tender-odf-1-3-conformance/ Various bits to finish the transition to ODF 1.3 Details: https://blog.docu ..read more

In April last year, The Document Foundation posted a tender to implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP in LibreOffice. Now we have an update from allotropia, the company that won the tender: This is to report the recent activities we performed. We held a presentation during this year’s FOSDEM conference, giving an in-depth account of what we did, why we did it, and the problems we’ve met. Both video and slides are available, licensed as CC-BY 2.0 BE currently. We’ve accompanied that with a blog post, going into detail. Additionally, we’ve fixed a number of additional bugs; all told, we beli ..read more

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice. We are looking for an individual or company to optimize text layout performance for print and PDF export. The text layout performance as currently implemented in LibreOffice has lots of issues. All over the codebase text shaping is done over and over again, although it consumes quite some compute cycles. Text shaping is done each time for measuring the text, measuring parts of text, finding line breaks, drawing text on screen. Especially for more involved s ..read more

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice. We are looking for an individual or company to implement C++ accessibility tests. The work has to be developed on LibreOffice master, so that it will be released in the next major version. The current accessibility tests are rather incomplete and hard to maintain. Additionally, they are written in Java. The scope of this tender is to convert them into in-process cppunit-based tests and create a solid foundation in both code as well as documentation to facil ..read more