…to apply for hosting the LibreOffice Conference 2012. More details can be found in our Call for Location.
Category: Conference
LibreOffice Conference 2012 and 2013 Call for Locations
As previously announced, The Document Foundation is currently running a Call for Locations for our annual, global community event, the LibreOffice Conference. After a successful event in Paris in October 2011, the venues for the next two years will be voted upon by the community.
The Call for Locations is about the venues for the next two conferences, to help the team of the 2013 event learn from the organizers of the 2012 event. Applicants are free to send in a proposal for both dates, or decide for one of the years. Applicants, whose proposal for 2012 was unsuccessful, are also eligible to propose again for 2013.
Traditionally, the LibreOffice Conference takes place between September and November, with a preferred date of October.
The deadlines for sending in your proposals are:
- Sunday, January 22nd 2012, 23:59 UTC for the 2012 event
- at the end of August 2012 for the 2013 event, details on this will follow soon
After receiving the applications, we will evaluate necessary preconditions, evaluate the validity and give applicants the chance to clarify vague details. In late January 2012, or early February 2012, the LibreOffice community will vote on their preferred location, so the organizers have enough time for their preparations. Please do not vote on random locations but rather wait for the official announcement of the proposals and the voting mechanism.
All details on the Call for Locations can be found in our wiki at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/CallforLocation
We’re looking forward to exciting proposals for the next Conferences!
LibreOffice Conference Announcements
During the LibreOffice Conference, The Document Foundation has announced:
- LibreOffice Online Prototype: you can watch a demo video at the following address:
http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-10-10-lool-demo.webm. LibreOffice Online is based on GTK+ framework and HTML5’s canvas, and has been developed by SUSE’s Michael Meeks, built on GTK+ broadway from RedHat’s Alex Laarson. - LibreOffice port project to Android and iOS, based on the voluntary work of Tor Lillqvist, a SUSE finnish developer know for having ported GIMP to Windows. The LibreOffice Android and iOS port has the objective of bringing the office suite to iPads and Android tablets, and eventually smaller devices. The user interface work has yet to start in earnest but the bulk of the code is compiling.
Please note that these are not products available to end users, but advanced development projects which will become products sometimes in late 2012 or early 2013.
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500.000 desktops, mostly Windows, at several French Government entities switching from OpenOffice to LibreOffice (this increases the Windows installed base of LibreOffice by 5% in a single move)
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800.000 USB keys with LibreOffice and other free software distributed to students of the Paris Region (Île-de-France)
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Region Île-de-France becoming a member of TDF Advisory Board
Conference ad-hoc information
To all participants of the LibreOffice Conference:
Updates, important announcements and changes in the schedule of the LibreOffice Conference will be announced via Identi.ca and Twitter. Simply follow @docufoundation or open one of these URLs in your browser:
While we try to also feed the blog, the mailing lists and other social networks with updates, the above channels are to be considered official and will be updated in time.
Looking forward to meeting you in Paris!
LibreOffice Conference Program
Paris, October 13 to October 15, 2011
Over 200 people – members of The Document Foundation and free software advocates – will gather in Paris to celebrate the first anniversary of the project and discuss ideas and new plans for the future
The Document Foundation announces the program of the first LibreOffice Conference, which will gather over 200 people – members of the project and free software advocates – in Paris from October 13 to October 15, 2011. The conference – which will be held in two locations: La Cantine de Silicon Sentier and the IRILL (Institut de Recherche du Logiciel Libre, or free software research institute) – is sponsored by: Cap Digital, IRILL and Région Île-de-France (Premium Sponsors); Canonical, Google, La Mouette, Novell/SUSE and RedHat (Gold Sponsors); AF83, Ars Aperta and Lanedo (Silver Sponsors). Logos and links to sponsors are available here.
On October 12, La Cantine will be open in the afternoon for registration and for a meeting of TDF Steering Committee, followed by a public Q&A session open to members of The Document Foundation and conference attendees. In the evening at 7 pm, Cap Digital will organize a welcome cocktail at their headquarters near the Bastille.
On October 13, the conference will start with a welcome address from the region authorities and the organizing committee, followed by TDF keynote speech summarizing the project achievements during the first year: development, infrastructure, community and marketing. The following presentations will be split into four different tracks, focused – again – on development, community, marketing and ODF, plus a technical “bird-of-feather” session. The program is available here.
The conference will continue in the evenings with get-together events, where the international community will have the opportunity to meet and mingle: on October 13 at 7 pm, there will be the Île-de-France Region special evening, with several keynotes and announcements; while on October 14 at 7 pm, there will be the AF83 Beer & Music evening.
Participation in the LibreOffice Conference is free of charge; all you need to do is to register here before the end of September.
LibreOffice Conference schedule is online
The LibreOffice Conference schedule is online at http://conference.libreoffice.org/programme/
In case you haven’t registered yet, let us know about your participation at http://conference.libreoffice.org/conference-registration/