Author: Italo Vignoli

In 2016, the LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, and organized by OpenAlt, from September 6 (community day, with meetings to discuss topics relevant to native language communities around the world) to September 9. 

In order to be able to plan for the event in the best way, and organize for logistics, food and t-shirts, we need to know how many people will be attending the conference on each day. Please register for the conference as soon as possible, by filling in the requested information on the form available on the website. Registration will be open until the end of August, but late comers will probably not be able to get the conference t-shirt.

Data will only be used for the conference registration, and will not be handled to 3rd parties.

If you have any questions about registration or problems filling out the form, please contact us at: conference@libreoffice.org

The Call for Location for the 2017 Conference opens on May 1st, and will close on July 31, 2016. All details are available on the following wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2017/LibreOffice_Annual_Conference/Call_for_Location.

As for the past editions of the event, the idea is to get proposals in advance in order to have 2017 location set before 2016 Brno conference, to give the opportunity to the 2017 event organizers to attend 2016 conference to get familiar with all the details: location, schedule, collateral events, etc. Traditionally, the LibreOffice Conference takes place between September and November, with a preferred date of October.

Organizing the LibreOffice Conference is a time-consuming task, where several team members are needed. Shortly before the Conference, it tends to be a full-time job, so organizers should be able to invest the necessary amount of time. Also, dealing with finances and sponsors is one of the main responsibilities of the organizers, so they must be sure to collect enough funding before the Conference, and only spend the money that they have.

In the past, we have been receiving applications from several third parties, including casinos or professional event managers. Keep in mind that the LibreOffice Conference is a community event, by the community for the community. While we appreciate people with professional event management skills, proposals not supported and driven by community members (not only TDF members) will not be considered.

The proposal should cover the following topics (all details are on the wiki page): team, organizing entity, main venue, accommodation, reason why (you want to organize the LibreOffice Conference), and other relevant details that can support the application (such as collateral events). The proposal – in English – should be sent as plain text or HTML e-mail, or as Open Document File (ODT) to info@documentfoundation.org.

The Document Foundation invites members and volunteers to submit proposals for papers. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by July 15th, 2016 in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program will be based on the following tracks:

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocating LibreOffice

Business track:
– Enterprise Deployments and Migrations, Certifications and Best Practices, Building a successful business around LibreOffice
– Round table with company representatives
– Small local businesses, governments and non profit, to be conducted in Czech language

Presentations, case studies, workshops, and technical talks will discuss a subject in depth, and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and will last 20 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please send a short description/bio of yourself as well as your talk/workshop proposal to the program committee address: conference@libreoffice.org

If you do not agree to provide the data for the talk under the “Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License”, please explicitly state your terms. In order to make your presentation available on TDF YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted material (music, pictures, etc.).

If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate email for each.