Yes, the conference in Budapest has started. If you’re not there in-person, join one of the chat channels linked to on the site and you can watch talks remotely. Enjoy!
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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
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
Registration open for the LibreOffice Conference 2025
Registration is now open for the LibreOffice Conference 2025! Join us from 4 – 6 September in Budapest 😊 We’ll have technical talks, workshops, social events and more…
Click here to learn more, and register
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!
TDF’s Annual Report 2024 – LibreOffice Conference
The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. In 2024, it took place in Luxembourg
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
This was our third in-person conference after the COVID pandemic, following on from the Milan conference in 2022 and Bucharest conference in 2023, but we also lived-streamed sessions so that participants could watch remotely (and ask questions in our chat channels too).
The conference took place from 10 – 12 October 2024 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, which is around a 20 minute train ride from Luxembourg City. As public transport is free in the whole country, attendees staying in the city didn’t need to buy tickets to attend the event in Belval.
Conference Tracks and extra sessions
Opening sessions were given by Eliane Domingos (chairperson of the Board of Directors at TDF), Serge Linkels (Managing Director of the Digital Learning Hub and 42 Luxembourg), and Stéphanie Obertin (Luxembourg’s Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education).
Then there were presentations and talks were given across various “tracks”, or categories: LibreOffice Development; ODF and Interoperability; LibreOffice Design and Accessibility; and LibreOffice Marketing. There were highly technical talks focused on specific areas of LibreOffice and source code, along with more open discussions about community building and recent updates from The Document Foundation.
The conference also had some extra tracks to broaden its scope beyond just LibreOffice, and raise awareness about free and open source software (cybersecurity, EdTech and Open Source Program Office).
A workshop for new developers was held in parallel with the main tracks over the three days of the conference, and many different things around LibreOffice development were discussed, including: bug reporting and triaging; Git and Gerrit basics; building LibreOffice from its source code; and automation via scripting.
Sponsoring and merchandise
Partner sponsors were Collabora Productivity, Passbolt and SnT (University of Luxembourg), while venue sponsors were Digital Learning Hub and 42 Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre organised the EdTech track, and local supporters were Business Events Luxembourg, LU-CIX, LIST and Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity. Thanks to the sponsors, attendees could get merchandise at the event, including T-shirts with the conference logo.
Full programme and videos
Full details about the event are available on our main conference website. For a quick overview of all the talks, including links to PDF versions of the presentations, see the schedule. 63 videos – covering almost all of the talks are available as a playlist on our YouTube channel:
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Conference in 2025
Planning is already underway for the LibreOffice Conference 2025, which will take place in Budapest from September 1 – 5, following a vote from TDF members. Stay tuned to this blog for more details soon…