As I’ve mentioned before I’m a member of Skynet our college society and we like to run talks. We try to get speakers in with different topics to engage people with and also a chance for students to meet speaker they may not have the chance to meet.

This month we will be hosting a talk “LibreOffice, a fresh start” given by Caolán McNamara of the Document Foundation, starting at  6:30 Tuesday the 26th of October.  Why not come along and learn more about Libre Office and how well the fork of Open Office has been received by Oracle.  After the talk stay around for some refreshments and meet fellow members of Skynet.

Caolan  is one of the founding members of Skynet. He attended theUniversity of Limerick studying Computer Engineering and was one of the first skynet/ compsoc members. During his years, he wrote several apps, one of his most renowned being: mswordview/libwv a converter/import library for MSWord documents, as used by e.g Abiword.

In 2000, he joined Sun Hamburg to work on StarOffice just before OpenOffice.org was announced, working as a Microsoft Word import/export and related formats engineer. Caolan then transferred to Sun Dublin in 2001, and continued as a StarOffice/OpenOffice.org engineer.

He joined Red Hat Inc, in 2004 as Desktop Engineer in charge of OpenOffice.org and related technologies. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Document Foundation and has over 10 years of experience developing for OpenOffice.org

You can find more Information on Libre Office on http://www.documentfoundation.org/

See you there Tuesday 26th October 6:30pm in the Students’ Union Room 3 everyone is welcome, so bring along a friend !  You don’t have to be a member of Skynet or a student in UL to attend.