LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy
Marco Marega writes:
Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a local fair, part of which is dedicated to technology, makers, electronics and so on.
For the event from April 25 – 27 we had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand I met different interested people – some of whom I already know since they visit the fair regularly, while others I saw for the first time.
There is always curiosity about LibreOffice, and this time I noticed an increasing demand about AI integration and related plugins. The LibreOffice coffee/beer mats were very much appreciated by visitors to the stand.
The Pordenone Linux User Group invited other associations to share the stand, so there were also:
- Trieste Linux Users Group, with a nice game to learn bash commands while trying to deactivate a bomb
- Odoo group, presenting the ERP/CRM/…
- Bergamo Linux Users group presenting OpenWRT and some other projects (Emiliano Vavassori is one of them)
- A Blender expert
- Another member who uses openSUSE for multimedia production
- A corner where volunteers helped visitors to install Linux on their PCs, or to solve little problems
The next edition of the event will be on 22 – 23 November.
