Category: Conference

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!

Full list of presentations:

• State of the Project (Florian Effenberger, Michael Meeks, Italo Vignoli)
• LibreOffice and Ubuntu: A personal tale (Bjoern Michaelsen)
• LibreOffice powered by CIB (Thorsten Behrens)
• LibreOffice and Collabora (Michael Meeks)
• Development mentoring – what’s next? (Jan Iversen)
• VCL OpenGL backend performance improvements (Tomaž Vajngerl)
• More Songs About Building and Foot (Stephan Bergmann)
• Integrate your applications with LO using LOKDocView (Pranav Kant)
• Layercake – from UNO code to Writer Core (Bjoern Michaelsen)
• Screenshotting your way through the codebase (Katarina Behrens, Armin Le Grand)
• The Future of OpenCL in LibreOffice (Tor Lillqvist)
• Too Many VCLPlugs (Caolán McNamara)
• MS Office interoperability and automated bisection of regressions (Miloš Šrámek)
• UX of the Area Fill style dialog (Heiko Tietze)
• How users operate LibreOffice Draw (Heiko Tietze)
• UI Hacking explained, episode 2: Revenge of sfx2 dispatch API (Katarina Behrens)
• What could be done by volunteers to make LibreOffice more accessible? (Jean-Philippe Mengual)
• Collaborative editing using LibreOfficeKit (Miklos Vajna)
• Unifying LibreOffice Low Level Text Layout (Khaled Hosny, Akash Jain)
• Improved digital signature handling in LibreOffice (Miklos Vajna)
• Calc Beyond Cells (Eike Rathke)
• Advocating LibreOffice – talking to the press (Mike Saunders)
• Calc Tiled Rendering in LibreOffice Online (Ashod Nakashian)
• Where are women in LibreOffice? (Jona Azizaj)
• LibreOffice with a female touch (Katarina Behrens)
• The difficulties of creating a community (Anxhelo Lushka, Redon Skikuli)
• Competitive marketing strategies for LibreOffice (Italo Vignoli)
• Answering Non Technical Questions (Italo Vignoli)
• How to increase participation to make the project more inclusive (Jona Azizaj, Katarina Behrens, Marina Latini)
• Central config management of LibreOffice in Windows Server environment (Andras Timar)
• ODF Normalization (Alexander Mayer)
• Saving ODF XML of change-tracking as a sequence of pre-defined changes (Svante Schubert, Thorsten Behrens)
• ODF/LibreOffice Migration in Taiwan – Progress, Problems and What Next (Franklin Weng)
• LibreOffice and ODF, adoption by Paulista State University (Valdir Barbosa)
• #LibrexTutti: migration of Public Institute for Deaf in Rome (Sonia Montegiove, Emma Pietrafesa)
• LibreDifesa: Italian Defence chose LibreOffice (Sonia Montegiove)
• Convincing organizations to contribute (Eric Ficheux)
• Something About LibreOffice Macros (Franklin Weng)
• GenLang – new l10n tools, a vision (Jan Iversen)
• Tools for Translators (Christian Lohmaier)
• Documentation Workshop (Olivier Hallot)
• Localization community in Taiwan: challenges (Jeff Huang)
• Hidden gems in Draw / Impress (Armin Le Grand)
• Graphic design with LibreOffice and LibreLogo (László Németh)
• Lightning Talks
• This year’s Coverity, crashtesting and fuzzing data (Caolán McNamara)
• Bibisect On Demand (Bjoern Michaelsen)
• Validate me! Safeguarding standards-conformance for LibreOffice (Thorsten Behrens)
• LibreOffice Online and ownCloud/Nextcloud (Jan Holešovský)
• LibreOffice Online Deep Dive (Ashod Nakashian)
• An Introduction to LibreOffice Online thru Collabora Cloudsuite (Olivier Hallot)
• Connect, Embed, Integrate – LibreOffice as a building block (Samuel Mehrbrodt, Thorsten Behrens)
• Diving into Extension Development (Samuel Mehrbrodt)
• User-specific configuration management for office extensions (Florian Haftmann)
• Testing ODF software online (Jos Van den Oever)
• GSoC (Google Summer of Code) Student Panel
• UX & development interaction (Jan Holešovský)

Here at The Document Foundation we’ve been really busy since the LibreOffice Conference in September, running our Community Weeks and the Month of LibreOffice. But finally we’ve started putting videos online from presentations at the conference.

Don’t miss this opening presentation, the State of the Project, and then scroll down for more talks and demos.

More presentations:

• LibreOffice and Ubuntu: A personal tale
• LibreOffice powered by CIB
• LibreOffice and Collabora
• Development mentoring – what’s next?
• VCL OpenGL backend performance improvements
• More Songs About Building and Foot
• Integrate your applications with LO using LOKDocView
• Layercake – from UNO code to Writer Core
• Screenshotting your way through the codebase
• The future of OpenCL in LibreOffice
• Too Many VCLPlus

We’ll be adding more videos next week, so stay tuned to the blog and subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates!