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LibreOffice Conference 2023: Recap

2023-10-20

Last month we had our yearly LibreOffice Conference, this time taking place in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. And it was a great event! We had over 100 participants in-person, with more joining online, watching the streams and sending in video presentations.

The conference took place in the Politehnica University campus, with talks divided into two rooms, and a separate workshop covering LibreOffice development running alongside the main tracks.

Before the main talks started, we had an informal Community Session to discuss various topics, including growing local communities, LibreOffice Liaisons, and Weblate improvements.

Then the main event started, with first an opening presentation by 1&1 Internet Development, one of the sponsors and organisers of the conference:

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This was followed by a keynote presentation from sponsor Collabora Productivity:

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And then allotropia, which also sponsored the event:

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But the conference had more than talks and workshops! We also had an awesome community dinner:

…and a hackfest, which was also accompanied by delicious pizza:

A playlist of videos from the conference is below (and we’re still adding more, so keep an eye on it). And we’re already looking forward to 2024’s conference! The location hasn’t been decided just yet, but we’ll announce it on this blog in due time…

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LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2023 in Prague

2023-10-162023-10-16

Stanislav Horáček from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:

In the Czech Republic, the beginning of October means that free software enthusiasts meet in Prague at LinuxDays, the biggest event of this kind in the country. This year’s conference was even more awaited, as it was organized after four years of a coronavirus break.

LibreOffice has had its booth here for many years, and we were proud to represent the project again amongst presentations of other open source flagships, and related local organizations. More than thousand of visitors proved that interest didn’t vanish during the break – and many of them stopped at our booth to share their experience, grab some merchandise (provided thanks to TDF), ask a question or discuss a particular topic.

Some popular topics were mentioned quite often. For instance, the online version is much more known and discussed than before; however, sometimes we were still able to surprise attenders that such a tool is available. Also, we didn’t expect that editing of PDF files in Draw is so appreciated, or there was interest in working with LaTeX and Markdown formats.

The conference program offered also specialized talks and some questions reflect extensive knowledge of the visitors. We discussed batch configuration of installed applications using an extension, the experimental version using WebAssembly, and compiling of the software.

Regardless of its importance, it is always rewarding to solve an issue. Thus, we were happy to advise how to construct a specific formula in Calc, and to inform that not saving solver settings (bug #38948) has been fixed in LibreOffice 7.6. Moreover, these two points are examples of issues that were asked by the same visitors already years ago.

It was encouraging to talk with people of the younger generations, including discussions about how they learn office suites in their schools. It seems that the free software world can still offer a lot and be attractive for them.

We hope that these examples of what we touched on during these two intensive days illustrate that offline events provide a valuable point of view on the software and the community, both contributors and users. If there is such a meeting in your country, don’t hesitate to attend it and get (or provide) feedback about our office suite there!

Many thanks to Stanislav, Petr and Zdeněk for attending, and their great help in the LibreOffice project!

LibreOffice at the Software Freedom Law Centre in Delhi, India

2023-10-122023-10-13

On September 30 in Delhi, the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) organised an event to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Ravi Dwivedi was there with a stand and merchandise, with help from Surbhi, to raise awareness about LibreOffice.

Free Software enthusiasts from around Delhi attended the event. A lot of them were already familiar with LibreOffice. One person asked about the Document Liberation Project sticker and what it stands for; Ravi explained to them about it, and they got to learn about free formats and proprietary formats.

Here are some photos:

LibreOffice Nepali localization sprint 2023

2023-10-062023-10-06

Suraj Bhattarai, our Liaison for the LibreOffice Nepali Community, writes:

The LibreOffice Nepali Community is collectively carrying out a LibreOffice localization sprint 2023, with support from major communities in Nepal, including Ask Buddie, Birendra Open Source Club (BOSC), Kathmandu University Open Source Club (KUOSC) and Nepal Open Source Klub (NOSK). The motto is: “Unlock Native: LibreOffice speaks Nepali”, and the starting date is 11th October 2023.

Focus: LibreOffice English to Nepali Localization
Mentor: Aadarsha Dhakal, Saroj Dhakal & Suraj Bhattarai
Duration: 1 hour each day

Objectives

Introduce/aware new contributors, students around the LibreOffice project through this localization event
Encourage Open Source communities and university based student clubs to expand and carry our work in their space as well.

Expected Participants: 50+ students – Orientation day: 11th October 2023