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LibreOffice Conference 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic)

Brno-ViewfromSpilberkBerlin, October 12, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces that the next LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology @ Brno University of Technology (http://www.fit.vutbr.cz ) and jointly organized with OpenAlt (https://openalt.org) and Red Hat Czech (http://cz.redhat.com), from September 7 to September 9, 2016. The community will gather from September 6 for a number of internal meetings.

The Brno University of Technology is one of the largest and most influential IT universities in the Czech Republic. OpenAlt is a Czech not for profit organization which promotes the free software ethos and culture in the country. Red Hat Czech is a software development lab with over 700 employees (the largest development facility within the company).

Brno is the capital of Moravia and the second largest city in the Czech Republic, with a population of about 400.000.

The local team is staffed by Jiří Eischmann, Jaroslav Řezník and Jan Štafa from Red Hat and OpenAlt; Ladislav Nešněra, Jan Pacner and Jiří Beránek from Open Alt; and Miloš Šrámek from the LibreOffice community.

The geography of LibreOffice

The LibreOffice community has a wide geographical reach, which is shown on this map, where all countries where there is at least a TDF Member are shown in green.

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The LibreOffice community will gather in Aarhus for the LibreOffice Conference, where most of the countries will be represented. In addition, there will be volunteers from other countries, according to this map, where all countries where there is at least a conference participant are shown in green.

 

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The program of the LibreOffice Conference 2015 is online

03g_schmidt hammer lassen architects-smallThe program of the LibreOffice Conference 2015 has been published on the conference website at the address: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/. There is a separate page for each day of the event, including the community day (which is happening, as usual, the day before the conference).

Tuesday, September 22: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-22th-community-day/.

Wednesday, September 23 (opening sessions + tracks): http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-23th-wednesday/.

Thursday, September 24 (tracks): http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-24th-thursday/.

Friday, September 25 (tracks + closing session): http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/sept-25th-friday/.

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings there will be events involving all participants: dinners in local restaurants, plus a party and a hacknight at the Aarhus University. Check the program and register for the events (registration is mandatory, to help organizers with numbers) on this  page: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/events/.

 

Program of Events at LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe organizing committee has published the calendar of events at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/events/.

On Tuesday, September 22nd, there will be a Community Dinner at Restaurant Flammen: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/events/community-dinner/.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, there will be a Conference Dinner at Restaurant Bone’s: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/events/wednesday-dinner/.

On Thursday, September 24, there will be a HackFest & Party at the Aarhus University: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/events/hack-fest-and-party/.

To better organize the three events, all interested conference participants are kindly requested to register using the form that can be found in each event page. Only people registered will have access to the events in Aarhus.

LibreOffice Conference 2015 will open in a month

03b_schmidt hammer lassen architects_small 03c_schmidt hammer lassen architects-smallBerlin, August 24, 2015 – LibreOffice Conference 2015 will open in a month from now, on September 23, at the Dokk1 in Aarhus, Denmark. The Dokk1 is the brand new Mediaspace of the city, featuring the Main Library and Citizens’ Services

LibreOffice Conference 2015 will be hosted in the Auditorium and in the Meeting Area of the beautiful building, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and part of the conversion of Aarhus inner harbour to city space.

Pictures by Adam Mørk, courtesy of the City of Aarhus.

Registration is open at http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/registration/, while the program will be announced in late August.

The conference will be hosted by the City of Aarhus, and will be jointly organized by the Danish LibreOffice community together with local F/OSS groups and the Aarhus municipality. Logistics are managed by the not-for-profit organisation “Foreningen Dansk LibreOffice Konference 2015”.

LibreOffice Conference 2015 will be sponsored by:

Main: Canonical, CIB, Collabora.
Large: Google, Magenta, Prosa.
Medium: RedHat.

Local Contacts:
Carsten Agger (Open Space Aarhus)
Line Dybdahl (Aarhus Municipality)
Leif Lodahl (LibreOffice Denmark)
René Lagoni Neukirch (LibreOffice Denmark)

Email: conference@libreoffice.org
IRC: @libocon on FreeNode
hashtag: #libocon

Registration for the LibreOffice Conference is now open

Berlin, Juli 1st, 2015 – Registration for the LibreOffice Conference, which will be hosted by the Danish city of Aarhus from September 23 to September 25, 2015, is now open at: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/registration/.

Call for Papers is still open until July 15, 2015. Details on the tracks and the call for papers are available at: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/call-for-papers/. Tracks are about Development, Quality Assurance, Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects, Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility, Migrations and Deployments, Certifications and Best Practices, ODF, Document Liberation and Interoperability, and Building a Business around LibreOffice.

The conference website (http://conference.libreoffice.org/) is also including some practical info (http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/practical-info/) about VISA, transportation and accommodation.

Of course, do not forget to pay a visit to the sponsors who have made the event possible with their generous support: CIB, Collabora, Google, Magenta and RedHat (http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/our-sponsors/).

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