Yes, the LibreOffice Conference 2026 has started in Pordenone, northern Italy. If you’re attending in-person, we look forward to seeing you!
If you want to attend remotely, we will be live-streaming most sessions on the schedule (in track rooms 1 and 2) and making recordings of all. Find out more by following our communication channels, where we’ll post the streaming links as we go live:
Enjoy the conference, and a big thanks to the organisers for making it happen 😊
This year’s conference starts in two days, in Pordenone, northern Italy – and we’re getting ready. It’s not too late to register and join us!
We’re gearing up for the LibreOffice Conference 2026 next week in Pordenone, northern Italy – but there are more events in the pipeline too.
At the Open Source Conference Luxembourg 2026, which takes place on October 7, there will be two talks from Florian Effenberger, Executive Director at The Document Foundation, around the topics of LibreOffice:
Keep an eye on the conference website for more details and videos of the talks.
This is part of the Annual Report 2025 from The Document Foundation, the non-profit that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community. More will be posted soon…
The LibreOffice Conference was the annual get-together of the worldwide LibreOffice community, bringing together developers, contributors, and users. The 2025 event was held in Budapest, Hungary, from September 3 to 5, and was preceded by a community session.
The main conference featured 53 sessions spread over three days. It kicked off with a welcome and housekeeping session, followed by an opening speech from Eliane Domingos from TDF’s Board of Directors, and a welcome speech from the university that hosted the event.
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After that, the talks began across several different tracks, including the Open Document Format, advocacy and marketing, development and extensions, UX and design, and more. The full list of talks can be found on https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2025/schedule/. There was also a notable talk from the Austrian military (Bundesheer) about their migration to LibreOffice and the new features they funded.
The event finished on Friday with a lightning talks session, followed by the closing address and a celebration for the 15th anniversary of LibreOffice. But the conference was more than just talks: there was a community dinner as well.
Now the community is looking forward to 2026’s LibreOffice Conference. The event will take place in Pordenone, northern Italy, from September 10 to 12, and the Call for Papers is currently open.
In addition to the main LibreOffice Conference, there was the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, from December 13 – 14. Speakers and guests from around the world discussed topics specific to Asian communities, such as complex text layout (CTL) and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language support, and marketing LibreOffice in specific countries.
There was also the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9. LibreOffice project activities was concentrated on the opening day, October 6, and in the special session “LibreOffice Congress and Technological Sovereignty”, on the 8th. With the remaining days available, the organisers articulated a parallel agenda of activities, with visits and strategic meetings with managers and professionals from governmental and community areas.
Throughout 2025, members of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community attended many other events around the world. The first big event was FOSDEM, held in Brussels in early February – the biggest meetup of free and open source software developers in Europe. As usual, the LibreOffice community was present with a stand, merchandise, stickers, flyers, clothing and more. Attendees came by to talk about the project, report issues and make suggestions.
In late April, the Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2025 event took place in southern Germany, and LibreOffice was present with a stand and merchandise. Another German event was the Univention Summit 2025: it took place on January 23 and 24 in Bremen, and the LibreOffice project was present and met with the people overseeing the migration to LibreOffice in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Italian community members attended the Linux Arena event from April 25 – 27 in Pordenone. They had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand they met different interested people – some of whom they already know since they visit the fair regularly, while others they saw for the first time. There was curiosity about LibreOffice, and this time the stand personal noticed an increasing demand about AI integration and related plugins. The LibreOffice coffee/beer mats were very much appreciated by visitors to the stand.
Later in the year, Community members in Nepal tuned in to an online call and turned Software Freedom Day 2025 into a success. Birendra Open Source Club – one of the student clubs and LibreOffice project contributors in Nepal, with support from Liaison Suraj Bhattarai and other key open source clubs, hopped onto Discord on 20 September.
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University) in Prague. It combined stands for free and open source software projects with workshops and talks, and the Czech-speaking LibreOffice community was there.
Members of the Indian LibreOffice community celebrated Document Freedom Day in Noida on 29 March. The event featured a few talks on free software such as OpenStreetMap, Prav and KDE, and also a lawyer told attendees how they manage all their clients’ data with free software and keeping their privacy in mind. LibreOffice merchandise was distributed at the sticker table.
Most of the work in the LibreOffice project takes place online – in our Git repository, on mailing lists, on IRC and other places. But where possible, we like to meet in-person as well, at events around the world! Last weekend, for instance, we were at the Augsburger Linux-Infotag in southern Germany.
As the name suggests, this event is all about Linux and free and open source software (FOSS). The LibreOffice community was present with a stand, and we had a laptop to demonstrate the software, along with merchandise: flyers giving reasons to use LibreOffice; flyers explaining what The Document Foundation does; stickers; and beer/coffee mats.
Most of the visitors to our stand were already familiar with LibreOffice – as is expected at such an event. But visitors also had lots of questions, like:
We also talked to several people helping to roll out LibreOffice in companies and local administrations, so we hope to have more news about those migrations soon. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and our next planned event in Germany is FrOSCon, so see you there!
Petr Valach from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
On the last weekend of March 2026, the regular InstallFest 2026 conference took place. Here is a summary of the news and insights we gained at the event.
What every visitor noticed immediately upon entering was the change in the location of the conference spaces. Instead of Building E in the courtyard of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering complex, visitors headed up the stairs directly inside Building A from the reception. The conference thus gained larger premises (three floors were allocated), which visitors likely appreciated, as there was no crowding anywhere.
As I mentioned in my report from the previous year, I personally prefer historic spaces over modern architecture like that of LinuxDays. Its design is also very interesting, with a certain intended rawness and practicality, but historic buildings hide their own charm and the mystery of bygone times.
However, the placement of most booths was problematic. They were (as last year) located in a single room. If visitors didn’t know about them, they wouldn’t go there on their own – they had to deliberately search and find them (although there were signs everywhere and the magnetic navigation system deserves praise). Booths should rather be placed in hallways where they are visible. On the other hand, it must be acknowledged that due to echo, such placement would increase noise levels in the corridors, which could be disturbing. In any case, there were very few visitors at the LibreOffice booth – much fewer than at LinuxDays. Therefore, the list of observations will be brief.
At the booth, in addition to providing information and advice, we offered traditional promotional items such as stickers, beer coasters, and flyers. New this time were badges that visitors could pin to their lapels, and interest in them was surprisingly high.
A small contest in the form of a fill-in puzzle was again prepared for visitors. Clues were distributed across two floors where the conference took place.
This year, only one member of The Document Foundation attended InstallFest. A significant reinforcement, however, was thirteen-year-old Matěj, who helped mainly with carrying things and staffing the booth. He also attended a lecture focused on FreeCAD and its related workshop (plus one more). Matthew is a high-functioning autistic with interests in physics, astronomy, photography, and IT, and he will newly contribute to LibreOffice translations. We’ll see how he does.
Just a few days before the conference, the German government issued a directive mandating the use of the ODF format in public administrations. ODF is one of the required formats (alongside XML, PDF, etc.). The OOXML format is entirely absent, meaning it is not supported at the federal level in Germany. This has clear consequences and signals a move away not only from OOXML but also from Microsoft Office, as its compatibility with ODF is not good.
This information (along with recent implementations, for example in Denmark, Austria, Schleswig-Holstein, etc.) generated significant interest among visitors. These implementations demonstrate that governments (regional or national) take LibreOffice seriously. They send a signal that LibreOffice is a high-quality suite capable of meeting governmental needs.
For this to be the case, LibreOffice must meet certain criteria. Perhaps the most important is functionality – it must be able to do what governments require. Equally important, however, is security. As we know, using Microsoft 365 (the cloud version of Microsoft Office) is problematic because it conflicts with GDPR regulations. Users do not have control over their data when using this application. This issue does not arise when using the desktop or online version of LibreOffice; here, users have full control over their data. For institutions that process sensitive personal data, this is a crucial requirement that cannot be taken lightly.
It was interesting to observe how important privacy and security are to booth visitors (mostly young students). But not only to them. One student from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University mentioned that using Google Workspace is prohibited at their school due to data protection concerns; however, it is curious that Microsoft 365 is still allowed (even though the same policy issues apply).
The students we spoke with are generally satisfied with LibreOffice and use it for standard office tasks. In addition to Writer and Calc, Impress is also used – students are satisfied with it, although it is often considered the weakest module of LibreOffice. They agreed that it would be very useful to directly label objects on slides automatically, which would improve clarity when editing animations; users would immediately see the order of actions applied to specific objects (as in PowerPoint).
One student also asked about morphing between slides (as in PowerPoint); Impress does not support this feature, and subjectively it is not essential – more of an unnecessary “visual effect.”
This time, far fewer people participated in the contest than at LinuxDays – only seven completed entries were submitted, which is even fewer than last year at InstallFest. Nevertheless, three successful participants were drawn and won T-shirts and a printed color translation of the Writer manual. As always, participants could add questions or comments – only one participant did so, with two questions:
The InstallFest 2026 conference is now behind us. We’ll have to wait until October for the next IT conference – LinuxDays 2026. Will we meet there?
