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LibOCon Almeria Call for Papers

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s conference in Almeria (Spain). The event is scheduled for early September, from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice or the Document Liberation Project, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by June 30, 2019, in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program will be based on the following tracks:

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocating, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice

Presentations, case studies, workshops, and technical talks will discuss a subject in depth and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and will last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please send a short description/bio of yourself as well as your talk/workshop proposal to the program committee address: conference@libreoffice.org

If you do not agree to provide the data for the talk under the “Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License”, please explicitly state your terms. In order to make your presentation available on TDF YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted material (music, pictures, etc.).

If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate email for each.

Thanks a lot for your participation!

(Image credit: José Juan Sánchez, CC-BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

LibreOffice monthly recap: February 2019

Check out our regular summary of events and updates in the last month!

  • The biggest news in February was the release of LibreOffice 6.2, which features the new NotebookBar, an (optional) user interface based on tabs. There are many other improvements too, including faster change tracking, tidied-up context menus, better compatibility and new features in Writer, Calc and LibreOffice Online. Our video summarises the changes:

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  • Meanwhile, The Document Foundation has a new job listing! We’re looking for a Development Mentor to help new LibreOffice coders get involved in the project. The role involves working from home at your location for at least 10 hours per week, up to full-time – and note that the deadline for applications is March 29, 2019!
  • Also in February, we talked to Khaled Hosny about his involvement in LibreOffice. Khaled is based in Egypt, and has been contributing in the areas of text layout and font handling, especially for Arabic and other writing systems that require advanced text layout.

  • Our developer community organised two C++ workshops, helping C++ coders to understand features in the language. The first covered recursion on 14 February, while the second took place on February 28 and dealt with fractals. Stay tuned for more workshops, and join us!

  • On Valentine’s Day (14 February), we celebrated “I love Free Software Day”, a campaign from the Free Software Foundation Europe. This highlights the fact that free software is about much more than just zero cost – it’s about the freedom to share, study and change the software that we use.

  • At FOSDEM 2019, a major get-together of free and open source software developers, members of the LibreOffice project gave various talks about updates and new features. Now the videos are online, so find a topic that interests you and click through to watch the video.

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help us to make LibreOffice even better!

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019, Tokyo: Call for Papers is open

Berlin, February 28, 2019 – Call for Papers for LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019, held at the Nihonbashi Tokyo Tower (at Cyboze, Inc., Tokyo Office) on May 25th (Sat) and 26th (Sun), is now open.

LibreOffice Asia Conference will be the first event gathering LibreOffice users, advocates and contributors (not only development, but also localization, PR/marketing, documentation, quality assurance, … etc.) from different countries in Asia, to exchange and share experiences and knowledge.

During the conference, we will discuss LibreOffice related business such as supporting and training, migrating to LibreOffice and the ODF true standard format, developing, and any other community activity in Asia. In addition, we will have guests from the core team at The Document Foundation, which is a charitable foundation and the home of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice Kaigi, the traditional local event for Japanese speakers, will be held in parallel with the conference. So, there will be an English track and a Japanese track.

Any topic related to LibreOffice and ODF, such as LibreOffice user cases, contribution experiences in different areas, technical analisys of LibreOffice code development, success stories of migrations from proprietary software, or tips and tricks about LibreOffice usage, and so on, are all welcome. All talks will be 25 minutes long, including Q&A.

We are planning to reimburse expenses to accepted speakers, based on TDF reimbursement rules, including:

  • Flight or bullet train tickets (please note that tickets for local trains will NOT be reimbursed)
  • Accommodations for two nights in a hotel (please note that luxury hotels will NOT be reimbursed)

Do not hesitate to send your proposals, even if you live far from Tokyo or in another country in Asia.

To submit your talk proposal, please send an e-mail to libo-asia-contact@libreoffice.jp with:

Subject: [CFP] Title of your Talk

Your Name:
Your e-mail address:
Your profile:
Title of the Talk:
Abstract: (around 300 words)
Estimate of expenses to be reimbursed (if you will be asking for reimbursement)

In order to allow everyone to plan in advance their travels and accommodations, the deadline for the call for papers is on March 10th (Sun) 23:59:59 JST (UTC+9).

We will inform all approved speakers by March 22nd (Fri) JST.

LibreOffice and the Google Summer of Code 2019

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) an international annual program that has taken place every year since 2005 – and the LibreOffice Project has been involved since 2010. In GSoC, Google awards stipends to students who successfully complete coding tasks for free and open source software projects over the summer.

This year, LibreOffice is taking part again! So if you’re a student, know some C++ and want to get involved with a well-known open source project (and get some financial support from Google too), join in! Proposals will be accepted starting on March 25, but in the meantime you can view a list of ideas for inspiration.

Even though proposals won’t be officially accepted for a few weeks, we encourage you to join the development mailing list and talk about your ideas beforehand, so other developers can give you some feedback.

To learn more about how it works, check out our interview with Gautam Prajapati, who worked on the LibreOffice Viewer for Android app as part of GSoC in 2017:

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We look forward to meeting you!

Next C++ workshop: Recursion and fractals, 28 February, 19:00 UTC

Yes, it’s that time again! You can improve your C++ skills with the help of LibreOffice developers: we’re running regular workshops which focus on a specific topic, and are accompanied by a real-time IRC meeting. For the next one, the topics are recursion (third part) and fractals. Start by watching this presentation:

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Then join us on 28 February 2019 at 19:00 UTC for a discussion via our #libreoffice-dev IRC channel on Freenode. You can ask experienced LibreOffice developers questions, and learn more about the language. See you then!

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