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LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 17:27:08 JST LibreOffice

Love #LibreOffice? ❤️ Join the worldwide community that makes it happen! Help out with #UX design, #marketing, #documentation and much more – and build up your experience. We just redesigned this website: https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org #foss #OpenSource
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  https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org/
  
  Explore how you can contribute to LibreOffice, the leading open-source office suite. Whether you're a developer, designer, tester, or advocate, find out how your skills can help improve and promote LibreOffice.
- rockpick (rockpick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 22:26:26 JST rockpick
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  @libreoffice did somebody sabotage you there? Or is that a joke, i'm not getting?
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- LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 22:26:26 JST LibreOffice
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  @rockpick It's a bit of an in-joke in the software world 😉 See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
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    Eating your own dog food
    
    Eating your own dog food or "dogfooding" is the practice of using one's own products or services. This can be a way for an organization to test its products in real-world usage using product management techniques. Hence dogfooding can act as quality control, and eventually a kind of testimonial advertising. Once in the market, dogfooding can demonstrate developers' confidence in their own products. Origin of the term In 2006, Warren Harrison, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. Another possible origin he remembered was that the president of Kal Kan Pet Food was said to eat a can of his dog food at annual shareholders' meetings. In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled "Eating our own Dogfood", challenging him to increase internal usage of the company's product. From there, the usage of the term spread through the company. Real...

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