Bruce Byfield is a journalist who specializes in writing about free and open source software. He has been a contributing editor at Linux.com, and his articles have appeared on the Datamation

Datamation

Datamation was a print computer magazine published in the United States between 1957 and 1998. When first published it wasn't clear there would be a significant market for a computer magazine given how few computers there were...

, LWN

LWN.net

LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It consists of a weekly issue, separate stories which are published most days, and threaded discussion attached to every story. Most news published daily are short...

, Linux Developer Network, and LinuxPlanet sites. He also writes a monthly blog for the Linux Journal website, which provides introductions to popular free software such as LibreOffice

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...

, and Scribus

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...

, and a weekly blog for Linux Pro Magazine about free software and the issues surrounding it. In addition to his online publications, he has published in such magazines as Maximum Linux, Ubuntu User

Ubuntu User

Ubuntu User is a paper magazine that was launched by Linux New Media AG in May 2009.The publication is aimed at users of the Ubuntu operating system and focuses on reviews, community news, how to articles and troubleshooting tips. It also includes a Discovery Guide aimed at...

 and The New Internationalist, and writes a column about the command line for Linux Pro Magazine. His personal blog, Off the Wall, is a collection of short personal essays.

Before becoming a journalist, Byfield was marketing and communications
director at Progeny Linux Systems

Progeny Linux Systems

Progeny Linux Systems is a defunct company which provided Linux platform technology. Their Platform Services technology supported both Debian and RPM-based distributions for Linux platforms. Progeny Linux Systems was based in Indianapolis. Its CTO was John H. Hartman...

, and product manager at Stormix

Stormix

Stormix was a company that debuted its Debian-based Linux distribution with "Storm Linux 2000" in late 1999. Headquartered in the Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Stormix was an off-shoot of NetNation Communications, at the time, one of the top-ten web hosting companies...

Technologies. He also designs elearning
courses and is a marketing and communications consultant.

Byfield lives in Burnaby, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. In addition to free and open source
software, his interests include parrots, running, science fiction, collecting Northwest Coast Art and listening to punk-folk music. He is the co-founder of the Mature Student Award at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art

Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art

Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art is a progressive art school focusing on the "Northern Style" of the Northwest Coast Art. The school is located on the Northwest Community College Campus in Terrace, BC; Canada...

 at Northwest Community College

Northwest Community College

Northwest Community College is a post-secondary educational institution that serves the residents of northwest British Columbia. NWCC was first established in Terrace in 1975..-Campus:...

, and currently serves on the board of the YVR Art Foundation.

He is unrelated to the conservative journalist, publisher and editor Ted Byfield

Ted Byfield

Edward Bartlett "Ted" Byfield is a conservative Canadian journalist, publisher and editor. He founded the Alberta Report and Western Report newsmagazines.Born in Toronto, Byfield moved with his parents to Washington, D.C. at the age of 17...

 of Alberta
.

OpenOffice.org Articles in Linux Journal

Byfield list of articles for different OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...

components:

OpenOffice.org Calc

• Formatting Cells in OpenOffice.org Calc
• Printing in OpenOffice.org Calc, Part 2: Print selection and printer options
• Printing in OpenOffice.org Calc, Part 1: Page Styles
• Manipulating lists in OpenOffice.org Calc
• The Changing Face of Charts in OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Writer

• extended PDF: Professional PDF Controls for OpenOffice.org
• Hide and Go Seek with Writer Content
• Combining Documents with OpenOffice.org
• That's Your Version: Version Control in OpenOffice.org
• Master Document
• Domesticating Autocorrect

For a complete list you can visit his personal website.

Books

• Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber. West Warwick: Necronomicon Press. ISBN 0940884356.