One week to the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest

The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest. The building is just in front of the Danube on the historic Buda side, and can be easily reached either by walking or by public transportation from the city center in Pest, where you can find the majority of hotels and restaurants.

To reach the city from the airport, take Bus 100E which goes directly to downtown (Deák Ferenc tér). Buy and validate tickets directly on the bus using your bank card for the Budapest Pay&GO service. bkk.hu/en/travel-information/airport-express/

Inside the city use public transport (BKK): metro, tram, bus. Buy tickets from purple machines or use the BudapestGO mobile app (iOS, Android). bkk.hu/en/ The best deal is a 24h / 72h travel pass, which does not need validation at each trip. IMPORTANT: the travel pass is not valid for the airport bus!

Currency is Hungarian Forint (HUF). Cards are accepted almost everywhere, but also you may need some Forint cash from Correct Change, Exclusive Change, or Gold Change. Avoid Euronet ATMs, use instead ATMs at major Hungarian banks like OTP, K&H, Erste, UniCredit, Raiffeisen, or CIB.

Time zone is CEST (UTC+2). Electricity is 230V, with standard European plug.

The Survival Guide with more information will soon be available on the Conference website.

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open

Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024

Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024

This is a translation of the Japanese post:


The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), at IIJ Head Office (Iidabashi Grand Bloom).

This conference brings together LibreOffice users and contributors across Asia — including developers, translators, QA testers, community organizers, and marketing professionals — to share knowledge, tools, experiences, and challenges. We will welcome international guests, including team members from The Document Foundation, and encourage cross-border exchange and collaboration.

The conference will be held as a single-track event over two days, with most sessions in English. However, talks in Japanese are also welcome. If you plan to give your talk in Japanese, please prepare your slides in English so that non-Japanese-speaking attendees can follow along. We may also organize separate workshops or additional sessions.

Please make sure to check the following for details such as the event schedule.
(The information will be updated as needed.)
wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2025/LibreOffice_Asia_Conference

Here are some examples of topics (but not limited to):

  • Case studies of LibreOffice adoption or ODF migration efforts
  • Technical insights into LibreOffice code development
  • Community activities such as translation, quality assurance, outreach, or marketing
  • Tips and techniques for using LibreOffice effectively

Talk duration: 25 minutes including Q&A

  • The presentation will be recorded and made publicly available.
  • Please apply the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license to your presentation slides.
  • Please submit your slides after the event.

Travel support:
We may provide travel support to accepted speakers traveling from outside Tokyo:

  • Airfare or bullet train tickets
  • Hotel accommodation (up to 2 nights; up to 4 nights for those traveling long distances, e.g., from overseas)

How to submit

Please submit your proposal via the following website:
events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-asia-conference-2025/
If you have difficulty submitting through the website, please send an email to ja-contact@libreoffice.org with the following information and with the email subject “Proposal Submission for LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025”:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your profile
  • Talk title
  • Abstract (around 130-250 words)
  • Travel cost approximate estimation (only if you want to request travel support)

Due to limited hotel availability in Tokyo, please make a cancelable hotel reservation at the time of your CFP submission.

Submission deadline: September 16, 2025, 23:59 (JST, UTC+9)

Notification of acceptance: by October 1, 2025

LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025 Call for Papers

Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice!

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics, co-organized by FSF.hu Foundation. The event will take place from 4 to 6 September, with an informal community meeting on 3 September. Whether you are an experienced presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to say about LibreOffice, the Document Liberation Project, the Open Document Format or the ODF Toolkit, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be submitted by 30 June 2025 to ensure they are considered for inclusion in the conference programme.

The conference programme will be based on the following tracks

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localisation, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing LibreOffice: Usability, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocacy, promotion and marketing of LibreOffice

Presentations, case studies, workshops and technical talks will cover a topic in depth and last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please submit your proposal – including a short description of contents and a short biography of yourself – to https://events.documentfoundation.org/. If you would like to give more than one talk, please submit a separate proposal for each one. Only software based on the LibreOffice Technology platform will be allowed on stage, while slide decks will be shared using the ISO standard ODP and PDF file formats.

If you need a VISA, please contact the organising team at conference@libreoffice.org as soon as possible to receive an invitation letter.

If you are unable to travel to Hungary and prefer to present remotely, please include a note in your proposal to allow the organisers to schedule your presentation (and organise a test session beforehand).

If you do not agree to make the data for the presentation available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Licence, please specify your terms. In order to make your presentation available on the TDF YouTube channel, please do not make use of copyrighted material (music, images, etc.) for your slide deck.

Of course, this is only the Call for Papers, but everyone is welcome to attend the talks and events! We’ll post again soon when registration is open…

Thank you for your participation!