Join the LibreOffice Hackfest!

Dear Community,

next weekend, from September 2nd to 4th, the first LibreOffice Hackfest will take place in the city of Munich, Germany.

The Hackfest is the gathering of LibreOffice developers from all around the world, where experienced coders and interested developers meet and work on the code, fix bugs and implement new features. Plus, it is a great chance to see many faces from the community in the wonderful setting of Bavaria’s capital city.

Participation is free of charge, and the best is, we still have free seats available!

If you want to contribute code to LibreOffice, or get in touch with members of our community, the LibreOffice Hackfest is the place to be! And for those not so experienced in developing, we will host a special session on hacking pasta. 😉

More details on the planned agenda and on the venues are available in our wiki at

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest2011

Looking forward to hacking with you in Munich!

Florian
on behalf of the Hackfest organizers

LibreOffice Conference registration is open

The registration for the LibreOffice Conference, taking place in Paris from October 12th to 15th, is now open. Everyone interested in joining the first annual meeting of the LibreOffice community is invited to register online at

http://conference.libreoffice.org/conference-registration/

to help the organizers in planning.

The LibreOffice Conference will be the event for those interested in the development of free office productivity software, open standards, and the OpenDocument format generally, and is an exciting opportunity to meet community members, developers and hackers. It is sponsored by Cap Digital, Région Île de France, IRILL, Canonical, Google, La Mouette, Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, AF 83, Ars Aperta and Lanedo.

The Call for Papers is also open until July 22nd, and paper submissions will be reviewed by a community committee.

We look forward meeting you in the heart of France, celebrating the first year of LibreOffice, and discussing the plans for the next months.

The Steering Committee of The Document Foundation