We started the day with presentations – such as LibreOffice’s user experience advantages:
Meanwhile, the Engineering Steering Committee met in person:
Relaxing with pasta for lunch!
And then time for the group photo…
Having fun at the hackfest in the evening:
Now we’re into the final day! Stay tuned…
We welcomed attendees this morning:
Then the opening session began!
Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, joined us to talk about the importance of free and open source software in the city:
Fun and games at lunchtime:
Björn Michaelsen and Florian Effenberger celebrated 20 years of the Open Source Initiative:
Meanwhile, Heiko Tietze gave a talk about recent user interface improvements in LibreOffice:
See you tomorrow!
We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog from the conference in Tirana – in the meantime, check out some pics of the city, the conference venue, the pre-meeting dinner, and the community meeting…
Yes, the LibreOffice Conference takes place later this month in Tirana, Albania – and over 100 people have already registered! It’s going to be a great event, with talks about new technologies in LibreOffice, community discussions, plans for the future of the project… And fun evening events as well!
Come join us – if you haven’t registered yet, you can still do so here. The website has additional information about the venue, accommodation and transport.
Oh, and if you’ve never been to a LibreOffice Conference before, we’re a friendly bunch – here we are at the 2016 conference in Brno, for instance:
See you there!
Yes, this year’s LibreOffice Conference takes place from September 25 – 28 in Albania. Register today, meet our community, and have fun! Here’s a quick preview:
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The Document Foundation reminds all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s conference in Tirana (Albania). The event is scheduled for late September, from Wednesday 26 to Friday 28. Proposals should be filed by June 30, 2018, to be considered for inclusion in the conference program, so there are only 20 days left before the deadline.
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, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice
Business track:
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 5 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.
Thanks a lot for your participation!
