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LibreOffice Conference: Call for Papers

LibreOffice Conference 2022 will be a hybrid event, both in presence and remote, scheduled for the month of September, from Thursday, September 29th at 9:00AM CEST, to Saturday, October 1st at 1:00PM CEST (https://conference.libreoffice.org/2022/). In addition, there will be a community day on Wednesday, September 28th. The event will be in Milan, northern Italy.

It will be possible to present from remote on Friday, September 30th (details will follow). Workshops will be possible only in presence, and should be agreed with organizers in order to schedule them in a specific room (which will be recorded but not streamed).

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s conference. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, the Document Liberation Project or the Open Document Format, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by July 15, 2022, 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:

  • Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
  • Quality Assurance
  • Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
  • Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
  • Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
  • Advocating, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice
  • Diversity and Inclusion, New Generation

Presentations, case studies, 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 5 minutes (including Q&A).

Please send a short description/bio of yourself as well as your talk/workshop proposal to https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2022/. If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate proposal for each.

Please check if you need a VISA to travel to Italy on this page (available in Arabic, English, Russian and Chinese): https://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/. If you need a VISA, please get in touch with Italo Vignoli (italo@libreoffice.org) as soon as possible, to get an invitation letter.

If you cannot travel to Italy and prefer to present from remote, please add a note to your talk proposal, in order to allow organizers to schedule your talk on Friday (and organize a test session in advance).

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.).

Thanks a lot for your participation!

Latin-American LibreOffice Conference 2022 will take place in Brasília

The 2022 edition of the Latin-American LibreOffice Conference will take place in Brasilia, Brazil between August 25 and 26. The event will be held at the Catholic University of Brasília, in the Taquaritinga – DF.

The conference aims to bring together the community of LibreOffice contributors and users and promote the dissemination of knowledge and experiences related to LibreOffice. The planned tracks for talks and lectures will cover the following topics:

  • Cases of LibreOffice adoption in companies, governments, educational institutions, NGOs, etc.
  • LibreOffice usage tutorials
  • Getting started with contributing to LibreOffice (development, documentation, translations, etc)
  • Improving and promoting LibreOffice (user communities, marketing, design, quality)
  • Inclusion and diversity in free software and LibreOffice

The event will be organized by the Brazilian LibreOffice community, with the joint participation of other communities in Latin America and the world. Representatives from The Document Foundation – LibreOffice maintainer – will also participate in the event.

The submissions of talks and lecture proposals will be open from May 1 to June 30, 2022. The procedures for submitting proposals will be announced shortly.

Supporters

About the Catholic University of Brasília

The Catholic Educational Center of Brasília is an institution maintained by the Brazilian Union of Catholic Education – UBEC. It is a civil, confessional, private, non-profit, educational, assistance, cultural and philanthropic association.

About The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation is the legal entity that maintains LibreOffice, based in Berlin, Germany. The Document foundation is a non-profit foundation under German law (gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts).

Annual Report: LibreOffice Conference 2021

The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. This year, it took place online once again.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Normally, the conference takes place at a different venue each year, to reflect the international and diverse LibreOffice community. For instance, in 2019 we were in Almeria, in 2018 in Tirana, and in 2017 in Rome. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, though, we decided to move the conference online in 2020. This wasn’t an easy decision, as face-to-face meetups are important for free and open source software projects, but we focused on making it work.

We faced the same situation in 2021: ideally, we would have had an in-person conference, but uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions and containment measures means that we decided to move the conference online for another year.

The conference took place from 23 – 25 September, with sessions usually running from 10:00 to 16:00 (UTC). We created multiple Jitsi “rooms” for the various talks and presentations, along with extra channels for social interaction and general chit-chat via IRC, Matrix and Telegram. Although the conference was online, some members of the German community met in-person in Hamburg.

Here’s a video of the opening session (also available on PeerTube):

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Conference Tracks

Following the opening session, presentations and talks were given across various “tracks”, or categories: Development, Advocacy, Marketing, Design, OpenDocument Format, Quality Assurance, Documentation and more. There were highly technical talks focused on specific areas of the software and source code, along with more open discussions about community building and recent updates from The Document Foundation.

On the final day, the conference wrapped up with a closing session, headed by TDF’s Chairman, Lothar Becker. He thanked the presenters and all attendees for their support and contributions to the conference.

Sponsoring and merchandise

The event was sponsored by Collabora, allotropia, the Linux Professional Institute, Omnis Private & Hybrid Cloud, and Carbone.io. Conference merchandise was provided by FreeWear, a company that specialises in clothing items and other merchandise for free and open source software projects.

Full Programme

Full details about the event are available on the main conference website. For a quick overview of all the talks, including links to PDF versions of the presentations, see the schedule. Videos from most of the talks are available as a playlist on our YouTube channel, and on PeerTube:

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Conference in 2022

At the time of writing, we are hoping to organise an in-person conference in northern Italy, in late September. We will post updates on this blog as we get closer to the event.

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Nine more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

Here are some more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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Ten more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

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Stay tuned for more videos from rooms 2 and 3 of the conference!

Next batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

Here are some more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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