FOSDEM 2025: LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers
FOSDEM 2025 will be only in person, taking place on Saturday, February 1, and Sunday, February 2. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, February 1, from 10AM to 2PM.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Submission open: 30th October 2024
Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 at 11:59PM CET
Acceptance notifications: 6th December 2024
Final confirmation deadline: 12th December 2024
Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024
Devroom: 1st February 2025 from 10AM to 2PM
Please note that the submission deadline is managed by the FOSDEM team and not by the devroom managers, which means that after that deadline nothing will be accepted.
We might update this call for papers with further details, as soon as we receive them from FOSDEM organizers. Please check TDF blog and social media channels on a regular basis.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are inviting proposals for talks about “LibreOffice Technology, a development platform for desktop, mobile and cloud office suites“.
Main topics are LibreOffice development, localization, QA, UX, documentation, extensions, migrations and general advocacy, plus the native document format ODF. Please keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM.
In order to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule, the length of talks will be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes, including questions, according to the number of submissions.
TALK SUBMISSIONS
FOSDEM Pretalx system will be open for applications starting from October the 30th, 2024.
To submit a talk, please visit the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp. Please select “LibreOffice” as the *track* and ensure you include all the requested information when submitting a proposal: the title of the talk, a short abstract (one / two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pretalx).
If you already have a Pretalx account from last year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. The system is the same used for LibreOffice Conference, so you should not have issues with Pretalx, but in case you have please contact italo at libreoffice.org for help.
All presentations will be recorded and streamed. Sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded.
For accepted talks, speakers will receive an email to confirm that the proposal has been accepted. They may expect additional emails with more instructions, for instance to confirm their travel schedule.
CONTACTS
Italo Vignoli: italo at documentfoundation.org
Michael Meeks: michael.meeks at collabora.com