LibreOffice Conference Sponsor Packages
The organizing team of LibreOffice Conference 2023, which will be hosted by the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University Politehnica of Bucharest – the capital city of Romania – from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23, has released the Conference Sponsor Package. Members of the organizing team are Maria Veronica Ruxanda (Vera), Irina Bulciu, Roberto Grosu, Cătălin Popescu, Adrian Stănescu, Daniel Grigore and Gabriel Masei. Gabriel is a TDF Member and is also a Deputy Member of TDF Board of Directors.
first_call_for_sponsors_gabi_smallThe conference will open on Thursday, September 21, with the opening session followed by technical tracks, and will end on Saturday, September 23, with the closing session. All conference sessions will be at the Precis Building, while areas for internal meetings (scheduled on September 18 and 19), informal meetings during the conference, and networking activities will be in other neighbouring buildings inside the university campus.
The Call for Papers is already open, and is available at the following link: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2023/cfp, and is open until June 30. Don’t forget to send your proposal(s) before the deadline.
I don’t want to be a sponsor and I don’t even want be a participant until you – Libre Office society and managers – don’t understand that copying features from Microsoft Excel is not the way to be recognized as a competitive spreadsheet agains MS Excel. You have to make your own analytical app.
I’ve been an “Excel guru” – since 1993!!! I produce apps for Excel and webservices for Excel. I know perfectly (30 years!) how a spreadsheet (office apps) is beeing used.
If you want to listen to me – I’m ready.
Don’t send me any other invitations and info.
Wojciech Gardzinski
Europe, Poland, Wroclaw
+48502041611
LibreOffice is an open source project, and everyone can contribute. We would be happy to know your suggestions about Excel, as you seem to know the application very well, but no one is going to call you to ask. This is open source, which may be difficult to understand if your background is in proprietary software (I had the same issues 20 years ago, but instead of asking to be listened I started to contribute based on my professional skills, and because of these skills in 2010 I was involved in the group of people who created the LibreOffice project). LibreOffice development is driven by end users or by contributor’s will to add what they consider useful for the users. Many of the features which are inspired by Excel are actually requested – and paid for – by enterprise users who have migrated from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and need that specific feature for their workflow.
So, let’s try
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