LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania

LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be organized by a group of volunteers from the 1&1 software company, which is integrating LibreOffice into the Online Office product for GMX and WEB.DE portals, at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University Politehnica of Bucharest from Wednesday, September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday, September 23. The 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 (picture on the left), while areas for internal meetings (scheduled on September 18 and 19), informal meetings during the conference, and networking activities will also be in neighbouring buildings inside the university campus.

Established in 1967, the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers has as mission the development of a fertile environment for education, research and innovation, key factors in the expansion of the knowledge-based economy. Specifically, the mission of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers is to empower high-quality scientific research, to share knowledge through education in the domains of Computer Science and Information Technologies, and Systems Engineering, as well as to offer a stimulating, high-level professional and social environment to the students and academic staff within the faculty.

Members of the organizing team are Maria Veronica Ruxanda (Vera), Irina Bulciu, Roberto Grosu, Cătălin Popescu, Adrian Stănescu and Gabriel Masei. Gabriel is a TDF Member and is also a Deputy Member of TDF Board of Directors. For the conference, they have proposed the logo on the left, based on Romanian traditional motifs and colors (red, yellow, blue).

The organizing team, backed by Sophie Gautier and Italo Vignoli for organization and logistics, and by the entire TDF Team for the different conference activities, will announce the sponsorship packages and the call for papers during the month of March.

LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: Arabic/Persian/Klingon support, wiki cleaning, project sustainability

Here’s another batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

Arabic/Persian Text Justification: An Overview, with Hossein Nourikhah

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The state of Right-to-Left language support in LibreOffice, with Eyal Rozenberg

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Let’s try NLP of Klingon language using LibreOffice, with Koji Annoura

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We keep the wiki squeaky clean, with Ilmari Lauhakangas

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Improve the project sustainability, with Italo Vignoli

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LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: Events, GSoC, CJK issues, graphics subsystems…

Here’s a new batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

LibreOffice Conference Latin America, Second Edition, with Gustavo Pacheco

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Google Summer of Code 2022 panel, with Hannah Meeks, Tomaž Vajngerl and Miklos Vajna

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A year of LibreOffice at Collabora, with Jan Holešovský

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LibreOffice graphics subsystems, with Armin Le Grand

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State of CJK issues of LibreOffice, 2022 edition, with Shinji Enoki

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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom at FOSDEM 2023: Call for Papers

After two virtual events, FOSDEM 2023 will be in person, taking place on Saturday, February 4, and Sunday, February 5. LibreOffice Technology DevRoom is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, February 4, from 3PM to 7PM.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

December 11: Submission deadline
December 13: Announcement of selected talks
December 15: Publication of DevRoom schedule

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, including ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, documentation, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy. 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 15 or 20 minutes, including questions, according to the number of submissions.

TALK SUBMISSIONS

All talk submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23

While filing the proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf).

To submit your talk, click on “Create Event” and select the “LibreOffice Technology” DevRoom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all.

If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous 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. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact italo at libreoffice.org for help.

CONTACTS

Italo Vignoli: italo at libreoffice.org
Mike Saunders: mike.saunders at documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice Conference 2022: Impressions from an attendee (and speaker!)

Regina Henschel writes:


Since the LibreOffice Conference 2022 was a “hybrid” conference, I decided to travel to Milan. These were exciting days. I gave two presentations: “Introduction to the ‘Limo Stretch’ feature of shapes” and “Creating ‘fontwork’ geometries beyond the predefined shapes”. The first one is addressed at developers, whereas the second one is suitable for everyone. You find the slides and additional material here and here. Videos of my talks are below.

It was important for me to gain insights into other areas. The Community Meetings on Wednesday introduced me to the problems that LibreOffice communities have in several regions of the world, along with solutions and success stories from others. During the conference, I heard a lot about language-specific aspects of LibreOffice. Do you have ever think about the way a piece of text in Arabic is justified? Or noticed what special problems occur with writing directions top-to-bottom and then right-to-left as used in Japanese?

Last but not least, I enjoyed personally meeting community members. Having lunch together and the wonderful pasta community dinner were opportunities to get to know each other, beyond code review, Bugzilla and mailing lists. I hope to meet you all again at next LibreOffice Conference.


Thanks to Regina for attending and giving her presentations! And, of course, all her work in our community 😊 Here are videos of her talks at the conference:

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LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: DaaS, ScriptForge, FontWork, OpenDocument, Writer…

Here’s a new batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.

 

An introduction to the “Documents as a Service” project, with Marco Marinello

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Is ScriptForge really a scam? With Jean-Pierre Ledure

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Introduction to the feature “limo-stretch” of shapes, with Regina Henschel

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Creating “Fontwork” geometries beyond the predefined shapes, with Regina Henschel

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News from the TDF OpenDocument Format Toolkit, with Svante Schubert

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Push LibreOffice Writer to its limits, and see how it behaves, with Gabriele Ponzo

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