Hi everyone, As you know, we have a website hosting extensions and templates at https://extensions.libreoffice.org. There are currently 380 extensions and 398 templates - and we really appreciate the help of community members who've created them.
The current Plone-based extensions and templates website has served us well over the years, and we'd like to express a special thanks to Andreas Mantke for creating the site and maintaining it over all these years, investing lots of work and effort into this. Thanks a lot! As we look into the long term, we aim to further improve the user experience, localization and connection to our single sign-on (SSO) service. In other words, we want to build a website that's super friendly for both users and extension/template creators, and which can be translated easily, because one of our goals is reaching as many people in the world as possible, in as many languages as possible. We had previously announced that we were investigating OCS as a solution. OCS has many strengths, but it also has some limitations in terms of self-hosting and localisation. Therefore we decided to keep looking for other options that would also integrate with our single sign-on system. To this end, we've decided to build a new extensions and templates website based on SilverStripe. As you may know, SilverStripe is the content management system we use for the main LibreOffice website. It's mature, flexible and provides many of the features we need. Our infra team has been working on a demo SilverStripe-based website with the basic functionality for uploading, administering and downloading extensions and templates. There's more work to be done, but we think this is the best solution in the long-run. In the coming weeks, we hope to open up the website for more testing, polishing and translations, and then make it live for everyone to use. We'll post more on these lists when it's ready for testing! -- Mike Saunders, Marketing & PR Tel: +49 30555 7992 62 | IRC: M-Saunders on Freenode The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy