The Luxembourg Media and Digital Design Centre (LMDDC) is an Economic Interest Grouping gathering the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth (MENEJ), and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), created to support national activities related to digital learning and to operate service and innovation platforms.
LMDDC will be in charge of the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference’s EdTech track. They say:
We are thrilled that the Document Foundation has chosen #Luxembourg this year and are looking forward to a very promising event in #Belval, bringing together organisations and institutions that, like us, create, work with and promote Free and Open Source Software.
LMDDC joins other conference organisers and supporters including Digital Learning Hub Luxembourg, 42 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Université du Luxembourg’s SnT, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, as well as the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, Business Events Luxembourg – Luxembourg Convention Bureau G.I.E. and LU-CIX. More information in this post.
We look forward to seeing everyone at the conference!
Our big yearly conference is coming up, and it will take place from October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg! We’ll have talks, workshops, fun social events and much more – and we’d love to see you there. If you want to attend, registration is now open, so please let us know that you’re joining 😊
Come and give a talk at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2024 which will take place from October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg!
Our Call for Papers is open, and we are extending the submission deadline until August 31. But note: only speakers who submit before August 15 will get a hotel room provided by The Document Foundation. After that, we can’t be sure that rooms will be available. So if you want to give a talk, let us know ASAP!
The LibreOffice Conference is the annual gathering of the community, our end-users, developers, and everyone interested in free office software. In 2023, it took place in Bucharest, Romania
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2023 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
This was our second in-person conference after the COVID pandemic, following on from the Milan conference in 2022, but we also lived-streamed sessions and made recordings so that participants could watch remotely (and ask questions in our chat channels too).
The conference took place from September 20 – 23, at the Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București – Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare – PRECIS. The organisers produced a very handy “Essential guide to Bucharest” with information on transportation in the city, exchanging money, and joining the social events.
Conference Tracks and extra sessions
Following the opening session, presentations and talks were given across various “tracks”, or categories: Development, Advocacy, Open Document Format, Quality Assurance, Localisation and Business. There were highly technical talks focused on specific areas of the software and source code, along with more open discussions about community building and recent updates from The Document Foundation.
In addition to the talks, there was also a community dinner at Hanu’ lui Manuc, a restaurant with outdoor seating that served traditional Romanian food, accompanied by live folk music and dancing. There was also a hackfest where developers could work together on the codebase while sharing pizza.
A workshop for new developers was held in parallel with the main tracks over the three days of the conference, and many different things around LibreOffice development were discussed, including: effective communication in free and open source projects; bug reporting and triaging; building LibreOffice from its source code; and using Gerrit for code reviews.
Sponsoring and merchandise
The event was sponsored by Collabora, allotropia, dveloper.io and 1&1, with support from itgenetics, rosedu, Tech Lounge, Web.de, GMX and Mail.com Thanks to the sponsors, attendees could get merchandise at the event, including T-shirts with the conference logo.
Full Programme
Full details about the event are available on the conference website. For a quick overview of all the talks, including links to PDF versions of the presentations, see the schedule. Videos from most of the talks are available as a playlist on our YouTube channel – or on PeerTube.
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LibreOffice Conference 2024 will take place in Luxembourg, at the Digital Learning Hub and the local campus of 42 Luxembourg in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, from 10 to 12 October 2024. As usual, the conference will be preceded by an open day for community member meetings on 9 October 2024.
The photo clearly shows the Terres Rouges building, the large red building in the centre of the Belval University campus, which used to be the largest steelworks in Luxembourg and is home to the Digital Learning Hub, an initiative of the Ministry of National Education, Childhood and Youth of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The Call for Papers is already open, and can be accessed at the following address: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/cfp. The deadline for proposals is 15 August 2024. Approved speakers will be notified by 20 August 2024, while the conference schedule will be published during the first week of September.
The conference website will be ready soon, with additional logistic details for people attending the conference. A big thanks to Paolo Vecchi, who is organizing the conference with the help of local government bodies and volunteers.
