This year’s LibreOffice Conference, which is being held in Rome, has started. Over 160 people have registered, and the event begins with an overview of The Document Foundation, LibreOffice and our sponsors. If you’re attending the conference, we hope you have a great time! We’ll be posting regular updates on social media.
(Photo: Simon Phipps)
I have just visited Taiwan to attend COSCUP, meet representatives of the Taiwanese government and the local community, and run a certification session. Generally speaking, it was a very positive trip, because I was able to get a grasp of the activities at every level. Taiwan is definitely one of the strongholds of The Document Foundation.
COSCUP is the annual conference held by the Taiwanese Open source community since 2006. This year, the event has returned to its original location at the National Taiwan University on August 5/6, with a number of community managed tracks. ODF and LibreOffice were featured during the first day, when I was able to present about the advantages of ODF over OOXML to a large audience of Taiwanese people – mostly young students – who asked several questions. Taiwan is one of the countries moving to ODF, so the topic is rather hot.
The meeting with representatives of the Taiwanese government, led by Digital Minister Audrey Tang, was organized on Monday, August 7, in the early afternoon. During the meeting, we discussed the situation of the migrations to ODF in Europe, together with the opportunities and the challenges faced by every government. I learned about the digital strategy of the Taiwanese government, and about the investments they are doing to introduce open source software to the next generations of citizens. Digital Minister Audrey Tang asked about the evolution of LibreOffice in the cloud.
The meeting with the Taiwanese LibreOffice community spanned over a couple of events: a dinner on Saturday night, during which I had the opportunity to taste some real Chinese and Taiwanese dishes (which are rather different from their European equivalents), and a meetup on Monday night, during which I could talk about ODF vs OOXML, to provide some competitive marketing background on the topic. Moving from OOXML to ODF is not easy, not even in countries where the decision is backed by the government like Taiwan. It is therefore important that all community members know the differences between the two document formats and the advantages of ODF in term of interoperability and costs over OOXML.
I would like to take the opportunity of thanking LibreOffice Taiwanese community for the organization of my presence in the island, and congratulate the Taiwanese government for their comprehensive digital strategy to support not only open source software and open standards but also the education of a new generation of digital citizens.
This year’s LibreOffice Conference will take place from 11 – 13 October in Rome, Italy. It’s a great opportunity for LibreOffice developers, users, supporters, translators and other members of the community to meet up, share ideas and make plans for future versions of the software.
And you can join us! On our conference website you’ll find a registration form, along with useful practical information. We’re still working on the website and conference programme, so stay tuned to the site for more information.
Also: if you’re attending and want to give a talk or presentation about what you’re doing with LibreOffice, check out the Call for Papers. There are many different topics and “tracks” in the programme, so whether you want to talk about development, QA, marketing, outreach, migrations or something else, submit your idea. The deadline for submissions is August 15.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
The Document Foundation invites members and volunteers to submit proposals for papers for the conference in Roma. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, we want to hear from you!
Proposals should be filed by August 15th, 2017 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:
a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localisation, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocating LibreOffice
Business track:
– Enterprise Deployments and Migrations, Certifications and Best Practices, Building a successful business around LibreOffice.
– Round table with company representatives
– Small local businesses, governments and non-profits, to be conducted in Italian language
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 the 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.
We’re currently organising the LibreOffice Conference 2017, which will be held in Rome from September 27 – 29. But we like to plan even further ahead, so today we’re putting out a Call for Location for 2018’s conference.
Why are we doing this so early? Well, we want to give the 2018 conference organiser a chance to attend this year’s conference to see how it works. So if you’re a member of the LibreOffice community and are interested in organising 2018’s conference in your town or city, you can write up a proposal. All the details are on the wiki, including what you need to know in advance, and what your proposal should contain.
The deadline for proposals is June 30 2017. We’ve already had great conferences in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Bern, Aarhus and Brno – and we look forward to hearing your ideas!
It has taken a while, but we’ve finally edited and uploaded the last batch of presentations (for which we have video) from last year’s LibreOffice Conference in Brno, Czech Republic. You can see all of the videos in the embedded playlist below – click the list button in the top-left corner to navigate through the videos.
Alternatively, scroll on for a full list of presentations. You can do a search in your browser for topics of interest (eg “ODF” or “LibreOffice Online”), or for presenters. Happy viewing, and we look forward to seeing you at this year’s conference in Rome!
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