The Document Foundation (TDF) has received two different proposals for the organisation of the LibreOffice Conference 2025. TDF Members will receive an email asking them to cast a vote and decide which will be the final venue.
Budapest
Full application here
City: Budapest, the capital of Hungary and a former part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is well known for its stunning landscape, with the Danube River and surrounding hills, its Belle Époque architecture, and its vibrant atmosphere. The city offers numerous attractions, including the medieval Buda Castle district and its famous thermal spas. As a popular tourist destination, Budapest boasts a wide range of accommodations, cafés, parks, and a bustling nightlife with many pubs and entertainment venues. Additionally, Budapest serves as Hungary’s administrative, cultural, and educational centre, with a population of around one million. The city is home to numerous museums and academic institutions.
Entity: The LibreOffice Conference 2025 in Budapest would be co-organized by the FSF.hu Foundation and the ELTE University Faculty of Informatics. The FSF.hu Foundation, established nearly 25 years ago, was created to support the localization and promotion of FLOSS in Hungary. In addition to handling financial matters, FSF.hu has offered to issue visa invitation letters. A list of countries requiring a visa for travel to Hungary can be found on the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Dates: The expected date for the conference is September 1 – 5, 2025.
Venue: The conference venue will be located in the heart of Budapest, at ELTE University’s Faculty of Informatics, one of Hungary’s leading universities. The venue, near by the Danube River offers a spacious university campus with numerous large and small rooms, computer labs, and open spaces ideal for community gatherings, meeting the typical needs of a LibreOffice Conference.
The venue provides a reliable Wi-Fi connection suitable for a conference of this scale, and the auditoriums used for the event will be wheelchair accessible. Additionally, the university can provide personnel for video recording during the main conference days.
Team: The organizing team consists of experienced contributors from the local LibreOffice community, including Annabella Szép, Anikó Kelemenné Husi, Gábor Kelemen, András Tímár, Miklós Vajna, Balázs Varga, and Attila Szűcs. Each of them has extensive experience in developing, testing, or teaching LibreOffice. This dedicated team shares a deep commitment to the project, working together effectively as a well-coordinated group.
From ELTE Faculty of Informatics, Ágnes Erdősné Németh is responsible for managing the conference venue.
Gábor Kelemen, head of the organizing team, will oversee visa and sponsor relations.
After many years of collaboration and contributing to LibreOffice’s growth, we now hope to be awarded the opportunity to host the LibreOffice 2025 Conference in Budapest.
Luxembourg
Full application here
City: Belval is the new technology and University campus being developed next to Esch-sur-Alzette, the second largest city in Luxembourg, and is optimally positioned in Europe to provide visibility to LibreOffice and its community as well as for engaging with the various EU institutions it hosts. Being also bordering with France, Belgium and Germany it facilitates the participation to the conference of organisations within the greater region creating even more opportunities to promote LibreOffice and the complementary Open Source software that can form the foundations for the technological autonomy/sovereignty that many countries are now looking to achieve.
Entity: TDF will be the legal entity handling financials and sponsorships directly.
Dates: To guarantee that all participants will have a hotel room on campus we selected the week starting the 29th of September 2025.
Venue: As it has been proven to be an excellent location, we will be hosting it again in last year’s venue, within the Belval campus of the University of Luxembourg, and we will work to get even more support from ministries, local organizations, and of course the university itself.
More information about the location can be found here.
Team: The organisation of the conference is a joint effort made by several local volunteers and organisations coordinated by Paolo Vecchi with the support of the Digital Learning Hub and 42 School which are providing the venues.
So those are the two proposals, and as mentioned, TDF Members will receive an email asking them to cast a vote and decide which will be the final venue.
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